The day after christmas my grocery store had prime-grade standing rib roasts (ie real prime rib) on sale for $6.99/lb. I snapped them up. Now I need ideas for how to cook them (other than the standard roast thing, of course)! Thoughts?

pot roast and use the fat to make yorkshire pudding!

I need idiot cooking ideas, for only one person.

I just got back home after a very exhausting Christmas away, and -- I do have food. I am just well and truly out of imagination. I have two small top round steaks, some frozen cooked chicken, various dried beans, lots of canned tomatoes, a couple containers of frozen vegetable broth, carrots, onions, celery, and bell peppers. Rice. Pasta. Rice noodles. I'm actually very well stocked.

But the thought of actually cooking any of that is exhausting, and I'm at the "I just want to heat and eat" point right now and I'm looking for something to snap me out of that.

Also, it'd just be for me -- my roommate isn't home for another 2 weeks. (In fact, the only pre-made heat-and-eat option is something that I can't eat -- it has brocolli, and I'm allergic.)

Any ideas welcome.

empress- one of my heat and eat go-to is leafy greens (kale, chard, spinach) sauteed w/garlic, and topped with a fried egg or two, and grated cheese. one pan, 10 minutes tops; that was my dinner last night.

sounds like you have all the makings for a pot of chicken noodle soup. a little effort now that you could be eating for days.
or lentil soup... or tomato/pepper soup... needless to say, i like to make soup!

Ru, I wonder what made you purchase what is considered a perfect food (at least by meat eaters) and not want to cook it in the best way that would enhance it? You wouldn't buy a great steak and then boil it, would you?

Maybe I am misunderstanding you and you are only looking for a new way to roast this prime grade of meat, because it seems odd to buy a great roast to only not want to roast it.

If you really don't want to eat it as a roast, then I would roast it to medium rare and then use it for fantastic hot roast beef sandwiches, beef soup (with cilantro), a quick stir fry, etc.

My resolution this year is to stock my freezer with good vegetarian meals that defrost well. Any suggestions?

My boyfriend and I kicking off Soup January tonight, with split pea soup. Which I've never had....

My resolution is to bring in lunch to work. I've fired up the Mr. Bento and I'm making larger amounts of food for dinner so I can pack the leftovers for the next day.

Heat and eat level stuff: I've recently made a variant of a recipe I found on this site.
Shrimp, feta and roasted tomatoes

Preheat oven to 450oF. Take a can of whole or diced tomatoes (or fresh if you find some decent ones), put it in a glass baking dish. Add chopped onions (one medium), garlic (a couple of cloves), some salt, black pepper, oregano, a bit of hot pepper, some olive oil and whatever else tickles your fancy. Put it in the oven for 20 minutes. Pull it out, add some uncooked shrimp, sprinkle on some feta and throw it back in the oven. Wait another 15 minutes. Take it out. Put it over pasta.

The original recipe needed a bit of oomph - onions and additional spice definitely helped. It smells lovely.

Happy New Years Callipygous. I like your user name.