On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 20:43:13 -0600, Terry Coombs >
wrote:

>On 12/27/2017 8:31 PM, wrote:
>> wrote:
>>> How long is a beef roast good for in the refrigerator? If I was to buy a beef
>>> roast, not sure what kind yet, on Thursday and put it in the fridge, would it
>>> still be good on Sunday, three days later? Thanks.
>> It'll be just fine... how will you cook it, oven roast or pot roast? I
>> have a five+ pound piece of top round I'll be taking from the freezer
>> tomorrow, will become a lucious pot roast for New Years... I've got
>> plenty sweet onions, red spuds, carrots, celery, and all the herbs and
>> seasoning I need... pot roast braised in local ale... I may add barley
>> and 'shrooms to have a rich soup too, not sure yet, a last minute
>> decision... but starting to sound like a YES! If I use my 12 quart
>> pot I'll have six+ quarts of soup. And now is soup weather. It's -2ºF
>> now and dropping fast... woke up to -5ºF this AM.
>>
> * And here I was complaining about an overnight low tonight of 13°F ...
>Our NYE dinner will probably be some ham . Leftover ham to wind up in a
>pot of BE peas - or maybe some homegrown field peas - for New Years Day
>dinner .

It's -2ºF here now. I have one of those electronic weather stations
so I can get accurate weather for where I live.