Put a roasting tin upside down on the middle shelf.
Then put on the ribs (if you're doing more than one slab, you can buy one of those metal racks to hold them upright and create more space, or you can do what I do -- turn an oven-roasting rack upside down and stack the ribs between the supports).
But a few years ago a friend advised me to roast the meat upside down.
Cooking Lessons is an absorbing read, progressing from Garnett's tales of roasting her first chicken (upside down, in a reluctant galley oven) to becoming an accomplished home cook.
RECOMMENDED DISHES: Billy Bi soup, sardines in brown-butter-and-olive vinaigrette, seared scallops and foie gras, rack of lamb with lamb shoulder rillettes, roasted venison loin, upside-down banana tart, lemon gratin.
Mr. Im said his interrogators tied his hands and legs together and hung him upside down, naked, "like a roast chicken," and beat the soles of his feet.
Season the roast generously with salt and pepper and place it upside-down in a roasting pan, so it is supported by the rib bones.
Our maiden voyage consisted of carrot soup, roast pork with white beans and rosemary, creamed spinach and plum upside-down cake.
WHAT WE LIKE Butternut squash soup, sushi, sizzling sea scallops, risotto; all steaks, halibut, roasted duck; cheese plate, banana upside-down cake.
