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Buttercream icing is easy to make at home. The secret to a smooth texture is the order and the amount, in which the ingredients go in. Follow the simple instructions given below and make a lip-smacking frosting for your cake.

Rub salt and pepper all over beef cuts. Heat one tablespoon in a heavy skillet and brown beef from all sides. Remove beef, set aside, add the garlic cloves and sliced onions. In an oven proof dish, layer browned beef at the bottom, sprinkle sauted onions on it and pour the red wine. Place the dish on a rack in a pre-heated oven at 325° F and roast for two hours. Add vegetables (carrot, beans and mushrooms) and roast again for another 1 - 20 minutes, or until vegetables and beef is cooked.

Cut slits all over the beef ribs. Slice garlic cloves and insert it into slits cut into the beef. Coarsely pound basil, thyme, rosemary, vegetable oil, pepper and salt in a mortar and pestle. Mix it with Dijon mustard in a small bowl. Coat the beef chops evenly with this marinade. Set aside for an hour. Place beef ribs on a rack in a pre-heated oven. Place a tray to collect drippings. Roast ribs for 1 - 2 hours, depending on whether you want it rare or medium. Remove from oven and seal it with foil. Stand for twenty minutes before cutting and serving. The dripped juice can also be served atop the roast beef ribs.

Before preparing the roast dish, it is very important that you pay attention to the cut of the beef. Beef that's too fibrous or too red will take longer to cook and will have a slightly chewy texture. Always go for soft, but firm beef cuts. Oven temperatures vary from oven to oven, hence a good understanding of what a certain temperature will do to the meat will go a long way in ensuring a well cooked or tempered roast. There are many factors that come to play while roasting beef, such as thickness and freshness of the beef, marination and oven temperature. Well roasted beef should thoroughly cooked on the outside and rare inside. Following are a few oven roast beef recipes, to try.

Apple Vanilla Vodka
Take skinned slices of 1 large apple and two slit beans of vanilla and place it in an infusion jar.
Pour a liter of vodka onto it and lid the glass jar for good.
Allow this to stand unperturbed in a cool, shaded and dry place for a good 5 days.
Strain, chill and serve to vodka lovers.

Simple Cranberry Vodka
Take 16 oz. ripe cranberries and shred it crudely in a mixer-grinder.
Then cover the base of a glass jar with this, drizzle a fine layer of a cup of ground sugar on it and then pour 1.5 liters of vodka distilled thrice.
Allow it to stand for at least 14 days in the fridge as this will preserve all flavors optimally.
Strain and voila! Your infusion is ready to hit the party floor.