I have been advised by my SIL in the UK to use topside to make a roast. I'm not seeing that word on my supermarket website. What's the Canadian name for topside?

It's part of the Round. It's basically the arse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cuts_of_beef

Good comparison diagrams.

Roast arse. Yum.

Interesting. It explains why sirloin steak is often so much better in North America than Britain.

My husband has such a way with words

You must be very proud!

In Nova Scotia I buy what they call at Sobey's "cap off". It's from the sirloin. I get them to cut them 1 1/2 inches thick. They are as good as strip loin IMHO and half the price Nicely marbled. Six minutes aside on lowish to medium heat for a perfect medium rare one. That's what's for dinner this evening.

I would say it shows the opposite. Rump,sirloin.

You are getting me confused now. Isn't the tenderloin (US cow) what we call fillet, the best bit? And then the US-sirloin is just above that...

do you want a British cooked all the way through roast or a French medium roast? If you use topside, which incidentally is not kosher, then you have to cook it long and low, maybe as a pot roast. If you want top sirloin. Take care not to confuse with sirloin tip which is another slow roast cut.

I either get from Costco or ask the butcher for top sirloin and ask him to trim and roll it so it is the same diamteer all along. Cook medium rare or rare.get a meat thermometer. Remember the temp will go up once the meat is out of the oven, tented in foil, and resting.

All too late now. The roast was being made by my niece, who is staying with us. She wanted to take us out to dinner but we declined because we know she doesn't have the money. She caught wind of my fond memories of a proper roast and decided to do one. Her first ever.

It was quite amusing. She had her iPad on the kitchen counter and was getting live instructions from her mum in England (who had been taught by my mum - the queen of roasts).

For a first attempt in a strange kitchen and without the proper fats it was not at all bad.

We used top sirloin. It was all there was in the supermarket.

How fabulous

Excellent, now that meal would be better than any restaurant could provide. What a lovely idea.