Fitting: My First Pot Roast for My First Post!

The idea of starting a food blog has always danced in the back of my brain, but my lack of blog/html savvy has kept me from it...until now! I mean why not, considering I almost always end up taking pictures of the dishes I cook (and sending them to a certain boyfriend to make him jealous, since he's on the starving grad student diet)?  :) I think my decision to finally get this thing going stemmed from having received my first CROCK POT for my 25th birthday. I've already used it a number times to make a variety of dishes but today I wanted to start accounting for them all...

Starting with my very first attempt at cooking a pot roast! This recipe was adapted from another blogger who calls it a Mississippi Roast and is possibly the easiest thing ever to prepare. Also, judging by the seasonings added, I can tell that my house is going to smell glorious when I get home.

Preparation

Buy a chuck roast (the one pictured is a little over 4.2 lbs), place it in a good size crock pot

Sprinkle 1 packet Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing mix

Sprinkle 1 packet McCormick Au Jus gravy mix

Place 1 stick of butter (in an attempt to be at least somewhat healthy, I used margarine) on top of the sprinkled roast

Arrange (at least--more if you love them like we do) 5 pepperoncini's on/around the roast as well

Cover and cook on LOW for 8 hrs.


Before picture: This is what mine looked like when I put it in this morning...

After pictures: and this is how it turned out... 





Moist beyond words and literally falling apart with tenderness. Plenty of drippings to make a gravy but just as good as a plain Au jus over the meat. I was afraid the peppers would over power the meat and wouldn't appeal to everyone but it was sopped up in a heart beat! The peppers were a light light after taste, I definitely would not add more than what the recipe calls for. Overall this was an awesome success and I'm so glad I took the opportunity for these 2 firsts! 

More to come, don't you worry! Sunday Funday isn't too far away ;)