Dooley and Doolia: Bonzai Birthday dinner for Doolia

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May 07, 2011

Bonzai Birthday dinner for Doolia

We broke with tradition for my birthday this year. Previously, every birthday was celebrated at a restaurant along the lines of the Macaroni Grill, Zehnder's Bavarian Inn up in Frankenmuth, MI, or another 'mid-priced' restaurant. This year, in honor of our Dooley and Doolia project, I decided that a home-cooked meal was just the ticket. So I looked through the whole The Complete America's Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook and asked Dooley what he thought about trying the Prime Rib recipe. Needless to say, his eyes lit up and he said, "Sure!"

I had to figure out where to buy a 7 pound prime rib roast. I remembered reading an article about Knight's Restaurant several years ago, that mentioned that there's also a Knight's butcher shop. I checked online to see if it's still there and sure enough, it is. Imagine, I've lived in this town most of my life and never been to this renowned butcher shop. So I called and ordered the piece of meat.

The recipe is the simplest imaginable. You tie and dry the roast. You salt and pepper it and leave it wrapped in plastic wrap on the counter for an hour or two. You brown the outsides, then roast it in a 250 degree oven until it's done the way you want. The book gives you the internal temperatures for each of the doneness levels.

We also made Bernaise sauce to go with the beef. And skin-on mashed potatoes, and roasted broccoli and roasted asparagus. Each one of us had a huge slab of beef and it was so succulent and tender. It was the best birthday dinner I have ever had.

Posted by jdooley at May 7, 2011 08:39 PM

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