Roast Prime Rib
By: Giangi Townsend
Published: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 - 5:16am

Ingredients




Beef Prime Rib
Prime rib rub spices
Salt and pepper
Fresh rosemary
Fresh Thyme
3 carrots, cleaned and sliced diagonally
5 celery ribs, cleaned and sliced
2 onion, peeled and cut in 8 pieces
8 garlic clove, cleaned and end cap removed
Olive oil
Dash of sea salt grains (optional)

Preparation

1 Let the rib stand at room temperature. 2 Preheat the oven at 450º.  Rub all over the prime rib with salt, pepper and prime rib rubs spices. Place in the center of a large heavy bottom roasting pan. 3 Surround the prime rib with the vegetables, fresh rosemary and thyme. 4 Place in a hot oven and cook at 450º for 20 minutes or until a nice crisp top is formed. Lower the heat to 400º and continue cooking. 5 Cook for another 20 minutes and check for desire doneness. 6 Remove from the oven and let it stand for 5 minutes covered tightly with aluminum foil.. 7 Slice and serve hot.

About

On Christmas day it was the first time that I ever prepared prime rib. As Pete was delivering my meat right before Christmas, he suggested I try to make prime rib for the holidays. Great suggestions and was looking forward to try a new, for me, cut of meat. I started looking for recipes and there are abound.  Not able to make a decision on a recipe, I decided to take matter into my own hands and see what I could come up with. 
The basic ingredient was a very hot oven where the meat outer can sear and the juices can stay in leaving a very tender prime rib.
I felt sorry for this beautiful piece of meat to enter the oven alone, and decided that it needed company. A few vegetables around it and in the oven they all went.
The meat was as tender as it possibly could be, and that I have Pete at Personal Gourmet Foods to thank for. The vegetables surrounding the meat gave a wonderful aroma to the meat juice. 
We did not eat the vegetables last night, however I saved them and will use them to make soup today. Nothing more flavorful than roasted vegetables chicken soup.
Enjoy this beautiful day.
Bon Appetit!!
Giangi