Valentines Day Roast Beast Recipe

So there I was feeling delightfully greased up on a fat girls meal of Macdonalds and probably making the folks at People of Walmart proud in an ill fitting pair of jogging pants when low and behold an Angel of the LordWalmart shined down on me in the form of an amazing deal! There before me on a gleaming metallic shelf was a wall of slow cookers for only $15! Even though I have never actually cooked anything in a slow cooker before or actually looked at a slow cooker with the intention to buy one and thus had no authority as to whether or not $15 was actually an amazing deal something about it caught my attention. I was mesmerized. If I had this device I could now cook things...slowly!?!

I bought the slow cooker and went about day dreaming about what delicious things I would make with it but I really didn't have a very good idea of what I could really do. A quick search around google made my decision for me. I would make roast beef for my man child for Valentines day. I might not be the Man child specialist that I sometimes like to think that I am but there is one thing that I know for sure. My man child loves manly meals. Give him meat and potatoes and he's satisfied. After a quick search on allrecipes.com and I found a delicious sounding recipe which sounded easy to make. Roast Beast is so wonderful that I have kind of been nervous up until now to make it because I imagined it would be complicated. I couldn't have been more wrong. And the great thing about having the slow cooker is that it was all ready for me when I got home after work!




Awesome Slow Cooker Pot Roast



The pot roast that I bought was about 2 pounds pounds which was enough in the end to be two meals, one night with an extra person so it fed 5 people with some left over. I've changed the recipe in some barely noticeable ways so feel free to check out the recipe that I started with on the link in the start of this blog entry.

1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup
3/8 package dry onion soup
1/2 cup water **someone recommended using a 1/2 cup of beef broth instead which sounds awesome but i was senile and it somehow didn't make it home with me**
2 pounds roast beef
3 carrots, chopped up and peeled
6 small yellow potatoes **i basically just did enough to fill up the extra room in the crock pot**
1/2 onion sliced. Save a few pieces to put on top of the roast
i clove garlic, minced
pinch of pepper

So i started this at about 7 in the morning since most slow cooker recipes for this particular meal say that if you are going to cook on the low setting that it should cook for about 8 to 9 hours.

Prepare your veggies and put them into the crock pot. You will want a small layer of veggies for the pot roast to sit on because it gives it extra flavour. Once that is done put the roast on the small layer of veggies and surround it with the remaining ones. Put a slice or two of onions on top of the roast and if you like a pinch of pepper as well.

In a separate bowl mix the mushroom soup, dry onion soup and water together until they are decently blended. Pour this mixture on top of the roast beef and veggie combo and you are ready to put the slow cooker on it's lowest setting and go about your day!



Results

The Roast Beast was cooked to perfection! It was so delicious and moist, it fell apart when you cut into it. SO juicy and good. The veggies were great as well and after thickening up the left over sauce with some cornstarch and flour it made an awesome gravy. Cook up some yorkshire puddings to go along with it and you are set! I would totally make this again and would like to see if substituting the 1/2 cup broth for the 1/2 cup water would make much a difference as this roast was pretty darned flavourful as is.

My manchild even gave it an unprecedented 6 out of 5 autobots! Wicked.