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Glastonbury - Brian L. Porter, Author

4:17 PM Posted by MAC

Roast Beef - Author Brian L. Porter likes his served with
yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, green vegetables and
carrots with a rich onion gravy and horseradish sauce.

Ingredients:

  • 3 to 3 1/2 lbs of Boneless Rump Roast (pick a end cut with a lot of fat marbling)
  • Olive oil
  • 8 slivers of garlic
  • Salt and pepper
You will need a meat thermometer
For the gravy:
  • Red wine, water, and or beef stock
  • corn starch

Method

1 Start with the roast at room temperature (remove from refrigerator 1 hour before cooking - keep it wrapped). Preheat the oven to 375°F.
2 With a sharp knife make 8 small incisions around the roast. Place a sliver of garlic into each incision. Take a tablespoon or so of olive oil and spread all around the roast. Sprinkle around the roast with salt and pepper. Place the roast directly on an oven rack, fatty side up, with a drip pan on a rack beneath the roasting rack. This arrangement creates convection in the oven so that you do not need to turn the roast. The roast is placed fat side up so that as the fat melts it will bathe the entire roast in its juices.
3 Brown the roast at 375°F for half an hour. Lower the heat to 225°F. The roast should take somewhere from 2 to 3 hours additionally to cook. When the roast just starts to drip its juices and it is brown on the outside, check the temperature with a meat thermometer. Pull the roast from the oven when the inside temperature of the roast is 135° to 140°F. Let the roast rest for at least 15 minutes, tented in aluminum foil to keep warm, before carving to serve.
Serves 4-6.

To make the gravy:
Remove the dripping pan from the oven and place on the stove top at medium heat. Note that if you are pulling the roast out early, for rare or a medium rare level of doneness, you may not have a lot of drippings. Hopefully you will have some. If not, you may want to leave the roast in a little longer at even lower heat, 175°F, to ease some more drippings out of it. Add some water, red wine, or beef stock to the drippings to deglaze (loosen the drippings from the pan). Dissolve a tablespoon of cornstarch in a little water and add to the drip pan. Stir quickly while the gravy thickens to avoid lumping. You can add a little butter if there is not a lot of fat in the drippings. Add salt and pepper to taste.



Glastonbury – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat
 
“King Arthur did exist, Mr. Cutler.  I’m convinced of it, and this document will help to prove it to you.  I can’t reveal to you where it came from or how it came into my possession, but a lot of people have died over the years to protect it and the information it holds.  I’m a wealthy man as you already know, and the money itself is not of great importance to me.  I thought that you would appreciate a large cash injection into your business.  You are building a very good reputation in your field, Mr. Cutler.  Imagine how high your stock would rise among your potential clients if you could put on your company brochure that you were instrumental in leading the team that finally revealed the burial place not of King Author himself, but of his great sword, Excalibur!”
 
Joe Cutler, owner of Strata Surveys, has just been propositioned by millionaire Malcolm Capshaw to search the land near Glastonbury in search of the burial place of the famous sword Excalibur.  Everyone who has ever heard of or read about King Arthur knows he as well as his sword are a figment of his creator’s imagination.  But…the document shown to Joe by Capshaw is not only convincing but the fact that someone like Capshaw would believe in the fable makes it an offer he can’t turn down.  Now he has to convince his team, Sally and Winston that not only is the money good but they really have nothing to lose.  
 
So, the team sets up camp at a quaint little guest house called the Rowan Tree located just outside of Glastonbury.  Capshaw has alerted Joe that he will be sending Walter Graves, a known historian to meet and work with them in their recovery.  But is Graves exactly who he is supposed to be?  When Joe gets a quick glimpse of a pistol under Graves’ jacket, he’s no longer sure who he is dealing with.  And more confusion comes when their Ground Penetrating Radar picks up something the size of a casket buried beneath the ground’s surface.   As the discovery is uncovered and the lid opened to expose the body of a man, Graves’ explanation of it being a body buried hundreds of years before is discredited by Winston noticing that the body was wearing a Timex watch. 
 
So, who is Graves?  Who is Malcolm Capshaw?  And what do the notorious Maitland brothers have to do with the search?  They are noted for their dealings with organized crime but how do they fit into play?  These and many other questions combine to make a really twisted tail of mystery, history, murder and suspense.
 
As usual, Author Brian L. Porter has kept me in the dark until the very last 10 pages of his book Glastonbury.  And as usual, I was totally surprised with his ending.  My words to you Mr. Porter are this…you have created a great new character, actually several, so please keep their stories coming!
 


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