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Orange scented roast beef in red wine

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Inspired by this post, I made a really lovely roast this week. I marinated my roast all day long in a bottle of red wine, two pink oranges (juiced), a large sweet onion (chopped), and several chopped carrots as well as salt and pepper. After several hours, I removed the meat from the marinade and patted it dry. I browned it well on all sides in a little canola oil while preheating the oven to 300F. After the meat was brown, I returned the marinade to the pan and cooked it, covered, at 300F for 3 hours. I meant to add the tomato paste, garlic, and olives just before the marinade but it was a bit late and I was in a rush so I forgot. The roast was absolutely delicious anyway! Maybe next time I’ll be more organized and try it with the rest of the ingredients.

Testing, testing… 1, 2, 3

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I had a request for orange patchouli soap but I wanted to test that out since sometimes an essential oil I haven’t tried does unexpected things. I’ve also read that it’s difficult to find citrus essential oils that “stick” in cold process soap but Brambleberry’s 10x orange oil is meant to do just that so I wanted to test that out as well. No nasty surprises here! It was a very well behaved batch of soap that turned out beautifully.