Roast Beef with Horseradish-Herb Crust, Horseradish Cream and Yorkshire Pudding

Sundays night in fall are usually reserved for football food like chili, tacos or other appetizers-turned-into-meals, but I've always been a fan of the British tradition of the Sunday roast. Well, it's still football season so this was actually a Monday roast, but same idea. I also took inspiration from England for the yorkshire pudding served with it.

Don't get me wrong, I love to create my own recipes and test out different flavors, but I must admit, I'm much more cautious when it comes to a roast or a larger cut of meat. I feel that often it's simplicity that works best, but especially because these cuts of meat are usually somewhat pricey, I definitely don't want to mess it up. So after using recipes for some of these roasts, I start to develop my own recipes, but one problem I often find, is that the original recipe, perhaps with a few slight changes, is so good, that I'd rather get a hit than a potential miss.

So it's Tyler Florence's recipe that I followed several years ago for a pre-Thanksgiving feast I hosted for my family before flying off to Cincinnati for actual Thanksgiving with Dave's family. It was so flavorful (although definitely on the salty side), that I wanted to use the same recipe with a slight modification when I saw this roast on sale at the store. I would definitely ease up on the salt, reduce it to at least 1/4c and I didn't make the gravy. Instead, I made a horseradish cream by combining 4 Tbsp prepared horseradish with 1/2c creme fraiche or sour cream, then a squeeze of fresh lemon juice. You can use less horseradish if you don't like it so strong. Dollop this on top of the the meat, I forgot to add before I took the photo above.


For the yorkshire pudding, I had never made this before so I took Tyler's lead again with this recipe. They turned out good, but I think I needed more pan drippings or even some cooking spray because they ended up sticking to the pan.


Results: This is one of my all-time favorite roast recipes. It has so much flavor, but be careful about the salt as it's very easy to use too much. Dave was thrilled to be having such a feast on a Monday night, but I still can't believe that it was the chicken sandwiches the next night that he was actually even more excited for.