Easy Pot Roast Recipe
Pot Roast is a simple dish that you can literally fix and forget about for a few hours. When it emerges from the oven perfectly cooked it will soft like butter & a butter knife will cut through it. The way you get pot roast to have this juicy tenderness is low & slow.
This Pot Roast will be cooked & roasted in a cast iron skillet, it will cook for 3 hours. It serves 4 people.
What you need:
1 Pot Roast
1 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Teaspoon Pepper
1/2 Cup Flour
1 1/2 Cup of Red Wine
1 Cup of Chicken Broth
4 Large Russet Potatoes
4–5 Fresh Carrots
1 Whole Onion
4–5 Cloves of Garlic
1 Tablespoon of Italian Seasoning
What you Need to Do
Preheat your oven to 325 degrees.
After your Pot Roast is room temperature (if you have to dethaw it, this is important) you will cover it all over with your 1 teaspoon salt & 1/2 teaspoon pepper.
Then dredge it in the flour. Meaning cover the entire Roast with a layer of flour.
Now you will want to sear, or brown it, on all sides in the pan on a low to medium heat. The crust on it will help to keep it nice & juicy during the long roast time.
After this is done, you will need to add into the pan 4 cut russet potatoes, 4–5 cut fresh carrots, 1 whole onion that you will cut into 4 parts, and 4–5 whole cloves of garlic tossed in 1/2 a Tablespoon of Italian Seasoning.
Then cover the Roast with the other 1/2 a Tablespoon of Italian Seasoning.
Add in to the pan 1 cup of chicken broth. And your 1 1/2 cup of red wine. Pour 1/2 cup of the wine over the roast & the rest into the pan so it soaks into the veggies. It’s divine this way.
Cover with aluminum foil tightly.
Place in your oven which has heated to 325 degrees and cook for 3 hours. At this point it should be soft enough to cut through with a butter knife.
Now you could also do the searing of the roast in one pan & transfer the roast to a roasting dish & complete the rest of the steps this way, using the lid of the roaster to cover. OR do everything in a dutch oven, using the lid of the dutch oven to cover. I have a cast iron skillet & don’t want to deal with extra dishes, so keeping everything in one dish is easiest for me. Less mess, less steps & more time for enjoying the day.
And if you make this dish for your meat-loving husband he will love you forever. I’m just saying.
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Every Song Will Sound Like a Break-Up Song
June 1997
My man of many colors and I have been dating now for 2 months. I met his parents, albeit not totally on the greatest first impression. I got lost on the way to his house for our second official date & was late. I think his Mom thought I wasn’t coming. But really I just got lost, I am not great with directions, paying close attention to turn-offs, or apparently anything related to getting anywhere on time. Then we ended up talking & hanging out until the early hours of the morning. Yea, that’s how I met his Dad for the first time in the early hours of the morning. Needless to say if I could have pushed redo on that I would have.
And we had the “dating no one else talk.” We were a “couple” & it felt overwhelming.
Here we were 18 & 19 and part of me was terrified that this was “The One”, which is ridiculous because who meets “The One” when they are that young? And so I did what any normal 18 year old does I considered breaking up with him.
Little did I know he was thinking the same thing.
We went out to see a charity event, with his Mom & sister. It was a beautiful day and after we went to dinner. The restaurant had some of the fanciest pizzas I had ever heard of in my entire life. But over dinner he mentioned needing “to talk” and that caused red flags to jump up around me, waving & shouting “THIS IS NOT GOOD!! IT’S CODE! RUN NOW!” But I didn’t run instead we finished dinner & headed to a park to sit outside, enjoy the weather & talk.
Yea, let’s just say the talk went from not great to OH MY GOD WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU??? Very quickly.
Mr. Adorable decided to break up with me.
His reason “I am not ready to get married yet. I’m planning on applying to school in Chicago still and moving. Maybe we can keep in contact and who knows what the future will hold.” He also pointed out the fact that I often joked when under pressure instead of letting him in, whatever. (Ok, I admit it, he may have been totally right on that last part being open about my true feelings doesn’t come easy to me).
HUH?? Who said anything about marriage, who said anything about forever and wait aren’t I supposed to be breaking up with him? I was stunned, hurt and really it felt like a sucker punch to the gut. I couldn’t believe that a) he was feeling overwhelmed like I was b) that I felt so awful considering I thought about breaking up with him c) OH MY GOD I LOVE HIM, WAS I CRAZY FOR THINKING ABOUT BREAKING UP.
After finished “talking” which consisted mostly of him talking & me not knowing what to say back, which I’m pretty sure is the first time (and maybe the only time) in my life I’ve been without words. We got back into the car & headed to my house.
That’s when the tears started. I couldn’t control them. It was awful. I mean that type of crying that when it happens you want to look away but you can’t because it’s you. I was hyperventilating and felt like my heart had been ripped out.
A song by Jewel came on the radio. She was singing “You were meant for me & was I was meant for you.” It was all about star-crossed love that was meant to be but failed.
Then he said what has to be stupidest thing a person has ever said on the face of the Earth during a break-up moment.
“You know, for a while, every song on the radio is going to sound like a break up song.”
I felt like punching him at that moment & instead hit the dashboard. As did I began to find my voice & oh did I find it. I let my guard down, the jokes stopped & I let him in. I am not sure he was ready for the tirade that came next. It went something to the effect of:
“What? Are you insane? Every song doesn’t sound like a break up song. THIS IS A BREAK UP SONG! And for the record I am supposed to be breaking up with you tonight. Don’t look so surprised with a “Huh” look on your face. That’s right I break up with you. You don’t break up with me. This is not the way this is supposed to happen. And who said I wanted to get married? Did I say that? No you just assumed that I want to marry you. Well let me tell you I don’t want to marry you or anyone. I am not planning on staying here in Michigan. I am leaving. I am doing something different. So you can go to Chicago & remember that I broke up with you. And did you think that this was going to be a quiet car ride back to drop me off, because really you had your say now you are going to listen to me.”
He looked blindsided, I think he thought I wasn’t going to say anything on the way home, & he was so quiet.
After 15 minutes straight of me basically laying into him, he spoke and then I spoke. We ended up talking for hours. I said if we remained friends, that was fine, but we’d only be friends (nothing else), that I loved him & if being friends was all there was then that was something I was willing to accept. He said that if that’s what I wanted he was OK with that but really he wasn’t sure what he wanted anymore, because being apart wouldn’t make him happier, he loved me & wanted to be with me. Being just friends wasn’t the same as seeing if there was a future together in with me.
In the end we didn’t break up.
Instead we talked about our actual feelings, like adults, which was scary & beautiful at the same time.
And of course, every time that song came on the radio after I couldn’t help but lean over with a little smile and say “You know, for a while, every song on the radio is going to sound like a break up song.”
[this is part of my “how I met your father” series]
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