It’s Sunday night. Sundays are our family’s favorite day of the week. And today, like all Sundays, was filled with all of the reasons why. On Sundays, we have a somewhat leisure morning, and then we attend the last mass of the morning. Following mass, we chat with some people, and then we spend the day living out whatever plans we had for that Sunday. Today that plan was: 1) working on the house a little more, 2) cooking a pot roast, and 3) making donuts. And with a little luck, maybe I would have time to 4?) do a couple long overdue blog posts.
Well, it’s been pouring rain all day, but it didn’t put a damper on our usual Sunday spirit! We had our leisure morning, and we went to mass. We came home, and we lived out our plans, and it was a wonderful day! I believe I said, out loud, about 4x “I love Sundays.” And everyone responded, “Me too!”.
The pot roast came out AMAZING!! Seriously….like, WOW!! So I’m going to share the recipe with you all:
We started with a 2 1/2 pound chuck roast.
We chopped some red potatoes, celery stalks and onion, and added some baby carrots.
In a bowl, we combined 1/2 cup of water, 1 cup of Spicy V8 Juice, a pack of onion soup mix, and 3 tablespoons of flour.
We mixed it up in the bowl good.
The oven was set to 450 degrees to pre-heat.
Using a big long sheet of wide roll of Reynolds Heavy Duty Wrap……we draped it over a roasting pan.
Then we put the chuck roast in, added all of the chopped vegetables…..
…and poured over the mixed wet ingredients.
Then we rolled up all of the sides of the foil tightly into the pan, and baked it at 450 degrees for about 2 and 1/2 hours.
***Important tip added: You DO NOT want to overcook the meat!! Do not let the thermometer get to ‘well done’ or as high as 170 degrees. You are better off checking, and putting it in a little longer if it’s not done enough. But once it’s overcooked, you can fix that. ; )
When the timer went off, Michael pushed the meat thermometer right through the foil and it sunk right down into the meat like butter. It was done. We had been making donuts at that time (another recipe post we’ll share) and we were all starving!
We gathered around the table, and said grace before our meal. But I noticed no one’s eyes were closed. We were all staring at the pot roast. lol. We were really very thankful though!! Maybe a little over eager too.
It was indeed…..EVERYTHING it seemed like it was going to be. It was another one of those meals…..where the food was all the 6 of us talked about for pretty much the entire meal. lol. The sauce was so tasty…..the meat was SO tender…..the potatoes were not in the least bit dry…..it was just….PERFECT.
We’ll be making this dish, again and again.
Please leave comments that make me feel like an awesome cook, or even make me feel like I am enlightening you with an amazing new recipe, even if it’s been a staple in your home since your very first Sunday as a new bride. It’s just the nice thing to do! ; )
I will be trying this recipe! I only learned to cook a few years ago, too!
No matter when you find it in your life, it’s a wonderful thing! Looks SO yummy! Great comfort food!
I love cooking roasts of anykind. I love cooking for my family….it warms my heart and keeps their bellies happy. Better late than never in enjoying/learning to cook! Congrats~
Oh, looks delicious! Thanks for sharing
I love this. I will definitely have to give it a try. We ALWAYS had a roast for Sunday dinner growing up. Mom would put it in the oven before church and then it would be done when we got home. It got old and I hating having it. But hers was pretty basic, too, and not very flavored– well except for the natural flavors and salt, I think. Yours looks really good. Hy husband makes it really good, too. He’s really good at flavoring things.
I love that you do so much stuff with your family. It wears me out just to read about it all. lol If we lived closer we would definitely come join you sometimes. But you’re off the hook since we live so far away.
Sounds yummy. The husband doesn’t like the usual onion soup/cream of mushroom mix so we tried this and LOVE IT. I put a pot roast in a crock pot fat side up with about 1/2 cup water. Then I sprinkle on it dry ranch dressing packet, dry italian dressing packet and dry brown gravy packet. Let go all day on low. Makes the house smell insanely good. Since the kids aren’t big veggie people I just do the pot roast. Actually the person that gave it to me, called it To Die For Pot Roast.
This looks like a keeper! For an easy pot roast, stick it in a slow cooker on low for 6-8 hours, throw in about a cup of beef broth / boullion, salt and pepper, 1 onion cut up on the bottom and a can of mushroom soup. I know, the soup sounds odd, but the meat comes out so tender and the gravy….awesome! (Maybe thicken it up a bit with cornstarch towards the end). Make a side of veggies and mashed potatoes.
However, I think I may try yours next for a change : )
It’s only Friday and I can already smell the pot roast that will be in my oven on Sunday. Thanks for sharing your dinner through pictures. Sunday pot roast was a tradition that I grew up with, I think it’s time to share that tradition with my family:)
I’m trying this recipe today in my slow cooker. Good thing I remembered to buy FLOUR! LOL ….remember…cheese…
!!! I’ll let you know how the roast turns out. xoxo
Oh my gosh Rene…”I” should have been the one to buy you more flour!ROFL.
To fill in other blog readers on the inside joke here, at the risk of my own blush: I was helping Rene make Macaroni and Cheese some weeks ago, at her house. I was in charge of grating the cheese. Well, we were talking too, and in my usual absent-minded state, I apparently dumped a grated batch into the flour container, instead of the bowl I was collecting it all in!! Worse yet, I was SO absent-minded, I later tried to blame her! I went to use the flour, and found all of this cheese was in there! I was like, “Rene!! Did you do this?!!”. I had no memory of doing that at all. There was no salvaging the flour in that container either. The more I tried to remove the cheese, the more coated it all got, and the more it sunk deeper into the flour in the container.
The saddest thing about this? I do stuff like this at my home, every day!
XOXO to you Rene! Thanks for loving me anyhoo!
Oh, I’m still cracking up about that! Just a couple of weeks ago I was preparing to bake some cookies, and when I grabbed my empty flour canister I was like, “Oh, darn you Laura!!” And had a great laugh all by myself in the kitchen. You can dump cheese into my flour any time! I loved cooking with you!! And of course all the belly laughs. BTW, my kitchen smells amazing right now, the crock pot is on low and the roast looks happy! Thanks for all the advice on checking it for done-ness. I have a meat thermometer ready. Also, I only had regular V8 juice, so I threw in a few dashes of tobasco, and I used “beefy” flavored onion soup mix instead of regular. Will report later. XOXOXO to all.