Friday's Fun Feast! A late night dinner for four.

Last night we had some friends over for a late dinner! Neglecting the fact that I didn't get home until well after 6pm I chose to do a roast. I made a trip to Smokin' Iron and picked up a beautiful beef tenderloin roast that the butcher trimmed up perfectly!

(this is not an actual picture of the roast I picked out, but there's really not much difference so this will do)
Due to time constraints I had to adjust my homemade Gnocchi with Herbed Goat Cheese Sauce idea to simple mashed potatoes with Herbed Goat Cheese (still very yummy). We paired the tenderloin and potatoes with corn on the cob and roasted Kale Chips.

I'm not going to share the recipe because their pretty simple but I wanted to share a very humorous story about the cooking of last nights dinner! While I have mastered some cooking techniques, I am still lacking in math skills! I quickly researched google (as I do for so many of the things I make) for what temperature I should cook my roast to. One website said 120 - 125 degrees! Perfect! My roast was small so, as per the butcher, it should have cooked for only about 20 minutes. After about 1/2 hr I checked the temperature and it said 24 degrees! Wow! That was the room temperature that the roast started at... hmmm...ok, we'll keep cooking it then. So we kept it roasting for another 20 minutes. Checked it again and it was saying only 60 degrees! What was going on? It looked done, it had roasted longer than what the butcher had recommended... that's when I clued in! My digital thermometer was set at celsius, not farenheit! OOooooooh! Oops! Lol!

Luckily for my guests (and myself being someone who refuses to eat over cooked meat) we had taken the roast out and just the right time and it was actually cooked perfectly! But next time I will definately make sure that my thermometer is set right.

I just thought I would share :)