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Default Dinner Tonight 1/9/17: Crock Potted Chuck Roast

On 1/10/2017 11:59 AM, ImStillMags wrote:
> On Monday, January 9, 2017 at 3:26:16 PM UTC-8, Jill McQuown wrote:
>> I salted and peppered the roast and browned the chuck roast, then placed
>> it in the Rival crock pot. I added about 1/2 cup of beef broth <gasp>,
>> minced onion, a couple of cloves of crushed garlic and a couple of bay
>> leaves. I set it on High at about 1PM. By 4PM the kitchen smelled
>> wonderful. I checked for tenderness. Nearly done. Turned the crock
>> pot down to low for another hour.
>>
>> This is not a roast intended to be cooked to varying degrees of doneness
>> and sliced to present. I want it falling apart tender. It's about the
>> only beef (other than stew beef) I want well done.
>>
>> Yes, I'll be having this with mashed potatoes. And gravy, which is
>> thickened with a cornstarch slurry. Steamed baby peas will be the side
>> dish.
>>
>> You?
>>
>> Jill

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> My kind of comfort food. Yum.
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>

It was quite tasty. Chilly here but no snow in lower SC. Just sort
of cold.

Jill