Archive for July, 2008

But it’ll be about 8 hours before I can eat. Jessica picked up a pot roast yesterday, and last night I was flipping through recipes and ran across one that sounds absolutely wonderful. So, today I went and got the ingredients we didn’t have and I’ve got the pot roast in the slow cooker, with about 8 hours until it’s done. I’m actually mixing two distinctly different recipes into one and I hope it turns out. Here’s what I’m doing:

First, lightly oil the inside of a slow cooker. Then, in the bottom of the slow cooker place 1 bag baby carrots, about 5 medium potatoes quartered, 1 onion quartered and separated, and about 12 ounces of beef stock (save the other 4 ounces of beef stock in the fridge until the end). Mix all these together well and then level them out so they form a flat surface to place the roast on.

Next, in a bowl mix up 1/4 cup chopped parsley, 1/4 cup chopped oregano, 1/2 teaspoon dried rosemary leaves, 1 or 2 teaspoons of minced garlic (I actually take the minced garlic and run it through a garlic press to release more of the garlic flavor), and 1 tablespoon oil.

Then take a 2 or 3 pound roast, rub salt and pepper into the roast, place the roast on top of the veggies in the slow cooker, then press the herb mixture into the top and sides of the roast.

Next, open a package of thick sliced bacon and wrap the bacon slices over the top of the roast, tucking the ends under the bottom edge of the roast. The recipe called for 6 slices of bacon, but the package had 9 so I just used the entire package of bacon, overlapping each slice slightly so they would all fit on the roast.

You cook that for 8 to 9 hours on low. When it’s done cooking, you remove the roast and the vegetables from the slow cooker, pour all the drippings into a skillet, mix the 1/4 beef stock you saved in the fridge with 2 tablespoons corn starch (mix thoroughly to make sure there aren’t any clumps), then add the beef stock/corn starch mixture to the skillet and cook on high heat until it thickens up to the consistency you would like, then use this as a gravy to use over the meat and/or vegetables and/or mashed potatoes should you choose to make those to go with this meal.

I’m telling you…the waiting is the hardest part…