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I'm probably not telling alot of guys on here anything they don't already know but I've been experimenting in cooking pot roast for the last 8 months or so and I think I have it dialed in now.

This is the recipe - a good marbled roast,put it in the crock pot, season it with lowrys on both sides, then add this


then throw in a bag of either frozen stew vegetables or italian mix vegetables, I prefer italian, and a can of small whole potatoes.

add about 2 cups of water and cook on low for about 6 hours, then turn to keep warm until you're ready to serve

damn, that makes a good pot roast, and the gravy or whatever you call it is like au jus - just dip a hard roll in it. I often just have bread and the gravy the next day for lunch.

also tonight my wife made fish tacos.We got some fresh salmon, cooked it in a mexican seasoning sauce, and she made a fish sauce out of buttermilk, ranch, jalapeno and a couple of other things, cut up cilantro, red cabbage, chives and throw in some cotija cheese

that was the best fish taco I've ever had - and I've eaten them in San Diego and Pasadena before. good stuff

red potatos

For my wife and I it is just a well made quality meat beef burger, grilled with our choice of cheese and seasoning. We really can't eat steak anymore.

Sounds good. I'll look for that seasoning.

One of my simple but good eats is very simple. I buy some refried beans and tortillas. Heat the beans in a pan on the stove, roll them up in the tortillas,.then sprinkle shredded cheddar cheese on them and microwave until the cheese melts.

Get them out, add sour cream and taco sauce.

Well prepared bean burritos are good stuff.

Pear, peach, apple, deer, elk....

If the only meat I could ever have again was one, it would be burger. I like a good burger, casserole, chili, or spaghetti sauce as well as a steak, anyway. And to never have smoked meatloaf again? Hell with that!

I do this but without the peppers, add boiled new potatoes from the can and peeled baby carrots and a can or two of cream of mushroom soup.

https://www.thecountrycook.net/crock-pot-mississippi-pot-roast

It will change your world.



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Hamburger Helper


That stuff’s good even without the meat

My Mom’s pot road is outstanding! I always bribe her for a pot roast in return for a hard days work around her house. She always browns both sides in a cast iron pan, then slow cooks it all day. She always adds a can of beer to it while it is slow cooking.

I'm still trying to get over the idea of using canned vegetables in a pot roast -- and then we go to canned POTATOES? CANNED POTATOES? CANNED?

I don't even know who you people are anymore.....

Edited to add: I put a roast in the marinade last Sunday, for Sauerbraten dinner upcoming Sunday. And that's rushing the recipe.....

Canned potatoes.... pffft.

Couple of "new" potatoes (Modoc reds) from the garden, a squash of the acorn variety, two cloves of roasted garlic, some milk and butter, mash 'em all up.

Spoon em in a bowl, black pepper, hot pepper flakes, and some shredded Parmesan and Romano cheese mix on 'em.

Simple dinner last night.

Man, I ain’t a food snob.

Packet of seasoning? Cool.
Frozen veg? Well, ok if you don’t have any in the fridge.

Canned potatoes? WTF?

Lol.

Hah!

I used to love those canned new 'taters Dutch, take them camping, slice 'em up and fry them until brown in the bacon grease, have them with my eggs and bacon.

Now that I grow my own taters, I get new 'taters right out of the ground. Not a can anymore.

Fav of mine too

Navajo Tacos, or fry bread with honey.

The old classic beef roast with Campbell's cream of mushroom soup and dry Lipton onion soup in a slow cooker is #1 in my book. Follow the recipe on the can and/or box, add your veggies, and it'll all be gone before you know it.

Bonus food - back when I was a kid my mother would make "pennies & potatoes", which is just hot dog slices and diced potato done in a skillet with a little salt, pepper and garlic. Butter or olive oil, whatever you've got. Crushed red pepper if you're in the mood. Great cheap food.

For me it's my wife's pot roast.

2 - 3 lb whole chuck roast with a little fat in it, rolled in salt and pepper seasoned flour, carrots, onion, whole potatoes, stalk or two of celery, Worcestershire sauce, cooked in covered electric skillet until tender.

Leftovers make a delicious vegetable soup with a can or bag of frozen mixed veggies, sweet corn and cut okra added.

Hamburg/rice/brown gravy.

All sloppily mixed together.

Lots of black pepper on it.

Yum

Just had some jalapeno/cheddar wild pig brats with Beaver Deli Mustard that were legit.

Probably even make a turd.