Sunday Roast

I forgot the gravy in the picture:( I'll take a new one next time!

Chuck Roast – one with only one thick  fat strip and little fat marbling throughout.

2 strips thick cut Peppered Bacon

Beef Stew powdered seasoning packet

Carrots (I use the thick baby ones)

Baby Red Potatoes

Onion, large chopped (optional)

1C. Water

 Toss carrots, potatoes, and onions on crockpot. Place roast on top of the veggies. Depending on the size of your crockpot you may have to scoot some veggies up and around the roast to make room. Set strips of bacon around the sides. Mix seasoning packet with 1C. Water and pour over everything. Cook on low for 8 hours.

Use drippings to make gravy:

¼ C. Flour

¼ C. Butter

Drippings from crockpot

1 10oz can Beef Broth (maybe)

Melt butter in skillet. Sprinkle in flour. Stir to combine and let cook for a min. while continuing to stir(if you don't let it cook for a min your gravy will taste like flour) Add drippings while stirring continuously until desired consistency. If the gravy is too thick and you run out of drippings use beef broth to thin to desired consistency.

Turkey Joes

Shown with "Broccoli Slaw"

1lb. Ground Turkey

1 small Onion,chopped

½ C. Celery, chopped

¼ C. Green Bell Pepper, chopped

1 Can (10oz) Tomato Soup

½ C .Ketchup

1 Tbsp. Brown Sugar

1 Tbsp. Mustard

¼ Tsp. Pepper

Buns of choice

Brown Turkey until no longer pink. Add onion, green pepper, and celery and cook over medium heat until veggies are tender. Stir in soup, ketchup, mustard, brown sugar, and pepper. Mix all ingredients together and transfer to crockpot. Cook on low for 4 hours.

This recipe can be mostly made and frozen. Just chop double the veggies and place half in a freezer baggie.  Mix an extra batch of the soup, ketchup, brown sugar, mustard, and pepper and pour it into a separate freezer baggie. In a larger freezer baggie place 1lb. ground turkey, bag of chopped veggies, bag of soup mixture. Freeze!  Next time you want Turkey Joes for dinner pull out the "kit" toss it in a skillet and dump it in the crock pot. You just saved the extra veggies form going bad and a lot of time:)

Crockpot BBQ Ribs

This is one thick bone in rib.

Pork Ribs (as many as you want...I prefer 6-7 thick boneless but it doesn't matter)

Famous Daves Sweet and Zesty BBQ Sauce (enough to cover...I use about 30oz)

Toss the ribs in the crockpot, cover them in BBQ Sauce. Cook on low 8 hours. That's it!!! Easiest and best ribs EVER!!!!

They are so tender they just fall apart as you pull them  out of the crock pot! YUMMY:)