Stress Relief Roast

AH I love Thursdays! There’s something about knowing that I only have one more “sleep” until Friday, and before that, I get to sweat my tail off at Jazzercise (621 calories today!!!!) and then come home to a great dinner. This week has been stressful, but in a different way than normal. Usually, I have papers to grade at work, and the kids’ behavior stresses me out. This week though, I had my possibly life-changing doctor’s appointment yesterday, a whole new set of kids this week with the new grading period, and news of cases of both mumps and scabies within our student body at work. GROSS!

I got home from Jazzercise today and decided that the roast in the fridge needed to be cooked, and cooked quickly at that since I was SO HUNGRY!! I made what I’m kindly calling “stress-relief roast” because of its method of preparation. If you ever have a bad day (and you eat meat) the preparation of this roast is just about guaranteed to make you feel better!

Stressed?

Stress-Relief Roast

Ingredients

1 2.5 lb. eye of round roast, or other lean cut, trimmed

4 cloves garlic, cut into quarters lengthwise

2 tsp. olive oil

salt and pepper

Directions

Using a small paring knife (here comes the stress relief part), stab your roast all over in 16 spots. More if you want, but you’ll need to cut up more garlic. Insert the garlic slivers into each slit made by the knife. Rub the roast with the olive oil, and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Sear the roast in a hot, oven-safe pan, and then roast in the oven at 425* for about 35 minutes. Remove from the oven, allow to sit at least 10 minutes, then slice thin.

The garlic gets a bit roasty and the flavor permeates the meat and is just delicious! I made some oven-roast asparagus to go with the roast, and also some of my favorite horseradish cream.

Now, herein lies my battle. I’m definitely not hungry. I definitely WANT more food. I’m going to go with my more “angelic” side and NOT have more unless I get actually hungry. Thanks for your post, Krista! Your whole angel/devil analogy hit home!

I’m now going to do a very nice thing for Adam… he’s working the midnight release for Resident Evil 5 which means he’s at the game store until after midnight. I’m going to pack him a nice dinner and bring it to him at the store!

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And, I just wanted to sincerely thank each and every one of you for your support on my post last night. It was hard for me to write, hard for me to cop to the fact that I may have unnecessarily been on a mood-altering medication for 6 years for no reason, and also hard to just put it all out there. Your kind words and support helped me get through today, and I sat and printed out my new dosage schedule rather than just taking the easy way out. I could’ve just stopped taking it… or continued… because it was easier. So, thanks to all of you!!!!

You do! You all do!

Have an amazing night, and happy almost Friday!

xoxo,