![]() ![]() ![]() Spread horseradish sauce on the inside of the top of the roll. Sprinkle all three cheese over the top of the roast beef. Top each roll bottom with 2 slices of roast beef. Spread a small amount of horseradish sauce over the roll bottoms. It’s about forced interaction with those you love-even if it gets a little messy sometimes. Cut rolls in half and lay the bottoms of the rolls in a 9x13 baking dish. The assembly of a roast beef sandwich is like trimming your best friend’s show-offy 8-foot tree, or holding the rickety ladder as your awkward step-brother outlines the house in lights, or sloppily decorating sugar cookies with your 14 cousins. And you eat with your hands! There’s no other way. The luxury of the roast beef still makes it a special occasion, but a festive one. Load up the sandwich with four cornichons, sliced perfectly in half. Spoons stuck in mustard pots, rolls flying across the table. Unlike Thanksgiving or other roast beast feasts, this isn’t a “pass the mashed potatoes, papa,” formal dinner. Around the table, we loaded the sliced beef on soft buns with a slathering of horseradish cream, some mustard, and cornichons. It was just like the cartoon, it has to be said: The beef was bright pink inside, and a general joy to behold, and the rosemary-garlic crust was deeply browned and crispy. Big knife, big grin, but thin slices, ideally. Cue the Grinch-style slicing at the cutting board. Mingle mingle, kris and kringle, and then when it was about time to feast, I browned the roast in the biggest Dutch oven I own (Lodge’s 7.5 quart), a couple minutes per side.ĭINNER TIME. ![]() By the time the was beef was resting, my friends had arrived for cocktails and a little activity we call Lookit The Meat!, where you stand around the kitchen looking at that huge roast. ![]()
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