I’m mingling around meeting some great ppl!

How do you get to heaven?

Cyah around.
-AV

And I love to cook, but unfortunately, I only just discovered the joy of slow cooking. I’ll be checking out the links that others have provided too…

Love the ice breaker and good luck with the cooking. There’s always Pizza Hut…

Glad to see you at the party, especially since you and Mark have something to celebrate! Congrats to you both on this new position!!

I use my crock pot for a really simple pot roast that is truly impossible to mess up (assuming you eat meat of course):

You will need:

A beef roast of some kind (fully thawed)
6 potatoes
About 20 baby carrots (or you can use the equivalent in fresh, peeled carrots, I just like to use the baby to save time)
1 white or yellow onion
3 bay leaves
2 packets of McCormick Brown Gravy mix (you can use about a cup of the same if you buy it in the bulk containers found at Costco or Sam’s)

You can add other veggies if you like. I usually make sweet corn as a side dish but if you wanted to add another veggie you can.

Rinse the roast and place it in the crock pot. Add salt and pepper to the top of the roast. No real amount here, just a fair amount sprinkled on top depending on your tastes. It can always be added when served.

Pour the brown gravy mix (dry) over the top of the roast and in to the crock pot

Add water until the roast is fully covered

Add bay leaves to water

Peel onion and place two or three layers in water (this is also all about personal preference, it’s just for flavor)

Cook on low heat for about 3-4 hours. (I usually start mine by 9 AM and do the next step at around noon or 1 PM)

At around mid-day peel and halve the potatoes and add them to the water around the roast.

After you add the potatoes, add the carrots and any other veggies you might like to add.

Cook another 3-4 hours. I usually serve dinner at 6 PM so I cook mine for about 9 hours.

When you get ready to serve it you just pull out the roast, potatoes, carrots, and onions and serve. The roast will most likely be falling apart making it super easy to serve and eat. Be careful when you pull it out that you don’t get burned if it starts to fall apart, sometimes pieces can fall off and splash you if you’re not careful.

Hope this helps! It’s not a real “recipe” just something my mom taught me.

I usually use another packet of the brown gravy mix to make a little pan of actual gravy as the gravy in with the roast is just for flavor, you don’t want to serve it up as gravy since it’s usually greasy flavored water so if you’re “gravy challenged” like me, it’s easy enough to use another packet. )

If you think you need to you can add water throughout the day, but I usually don’t have to, you just want the roast to be “mostly” covered for the entirety of the day.

If you have a large roasting pan you can make this same exact pot roast in the oven in a roasting pan. I cook it at 350 for the same amount of time. It’s almost exactly the same but it is a bit more tender from the crock pot.

I signed the Linky – I’m not sure why – I hope it’s not for crockpot recipes because I don’t cook! Seriously. No, I did not have spiked punch at my last party stop…

Hugs,
DK

Happy partying!

I love to use the cookbook Fix It and Forget It. It has many wonderful recipes in it!