Dinner's Ready! The Roast That Multiplied...

Fall weather here in a VERY cold northern state led us to make some warm comfort food this past week.

One roast made three meals...(I can't take the credit, just the pictures...) Tin Man made the most delicious Roast one day, Vegetable Soup the next, and a final meal of BBQ Beef Sandwiches...Go throw your roast in the Crock Pot and get some paper to write down THREE (!) great recipes from one little roast...They'll keep you warm and toasty (and FULL) all week...

One Good Roast

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  Buy one good rump roast (big and meaty!)



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  Add a few cloves of garlic (We are crazy-we add six!)



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  Two packets of crock pot roast seasoning. We use "Crockery Sensations" by the meat counter at our grocery store



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  Add 1/2 a bag of baby carrots (save the other half for the soup), a few celery sticks (chopped up), and a few onions (or a lot-that's what we do!)



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  Put everything in your crock pot on low before you go to bed and let it sit until dinner the next night...When you wake in the morning-resist eating it for breakfast! The meat will be soft, and juicy and ready for dinner by five...



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  If you choose, make a green salad, and serve with rolls. (Salad and rolls will also go with tomorrow's meal...)
  

Pretty Good and Spicy Vegetable Soup

• Take out the roast meat, and set it aside for a few minutes...You'll need it for the soup and the BBQ Beef next.



• Pull out all left-over veggies and garlic. (Hopefully you ate it all with the roast. If you didn't-you need to pitch them-or eat them up right now!)



• Take out 1/2 cup of the beef broth. (To be used in your sandwiches later...)



• Add three cans of V-8 juice.


• Add one can of stewed tomatoes-with the juice. Chop the tomatoes.



• Add fresh veggies-carrots, chopped tomatoes, chopped celery, chopped onions (At least a cup of each).



• Add three tablespoons of Tony's Creole Seasoning, one teaspoon of pepper, one cup of water.



• Heat on low for two hours, then chop up a little of the roast meat for the soup (saving a bunch for the sandwiches)



• Simmer for a few hours
• Make a green salad, and buy a French Baguette to go with the soup.
  

And One Final Meal......

BBQ Beef Sandwiches

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  Use the left-over roast meat and chop it up in a skillet



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  Add 1/2 cup of veg. beef broth (that you had set aside from the roast in the crock pot before making soup).

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  1/4 cup molasses



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  1 cup of sweet BBQ sauce



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  1/4 cup brown sugar



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  cover and simmer for a bit (30 minutes at least)


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  Make sure you have buns, pickles, and some chips. (Yummm...)

Now go enjoy a few days of meals!
~Ruby Red Slippers (....who is now cleaning that %^$#@ crock pot!)