Dr. Pepper Pot Roast

I've always made pot roast with onion soup mix and mushroom soup.  Gets boring to eating the same things over and over...

Ingredients:

• 1 pot roast (we've used different types of roast, most recently a sirloin tip roast)
• 1 packet of Lipton Dry Onion Soup Mix
• 1 can of Dr. Pepper (or any soda you prefer to try)

Directions:

1. Place roast in crock pot
2. Pour packet of onion soup mix and soda over roast
3. Cook on low for 8-9 hours or High for 2 hrs/Low for 6 hrs

Awesome Slow Cooker Pot Roast!!

This is a very easy recipe for a delicious pot roast. It makes its own gravy. It's designed especially for the working person who does not have time to cook all day, but it tastes like you did.  It got rave reviews from the peanut gallery, which consisted of my Husband, my Mother, and even my 3-year old enjoyed the carrots, potatoes & sauce (just not the meat).  Can't win them all!


I'm not too picky with my meat, I usually buy whatever I can find cheapest, tonight it was a 2.5 lb Top round roast.  It had very little fat and was the perfect meat!  I will put down what my recipe, but using only 2.5 lbs of meat, you could cut it down to 1 can of mushroom soup and less water.  The gravy was really good, but I'd have liked it to be thicker.  


What you need:
Crock pot
2.5 lbs meat

salt & pepper

1/2 onion
2 (10.75 ounce) cans condensed cream of mushroom soup
1 (1 ounce) package dry onion soup mix
1 1/4 cups water

Russet Potatoes (we used 5 & peeled & cut them in half)

1 - bag Mini Carrots

Directions:

1.  salt & pepper meat to taste

2.  in a slow cooker, mix cream of mushroom soup, dry onion soup mix and water. Place pot roast in slow cooker and coat with soup mixture.

3.  Cut onion & throw in (we quartered the onion)

4.  Cook on High for 5 hours

5.  Add potatoes and mini carrots

6.  Cook another 3 hours on low

It was a divine meal!  The meat was super tender and the gravy was very flavorful.  

Italian Chicken in the Crockpot!

I'm all about the crock pot!  Summer's here in Arizona are NOT meant for oven usage or grilling!  So while everyone else is happy outside grilling, all we'd have to do is throw the food on the sidewalk to cook it.  Sounds yummy right?  No, which is why the crock pot is such an easy thing!  It doesn't make the house hot like the oven, and you're not melting using the grill!  

This was an amazingly easy meal to make!  Even better was that my 3-year old tasted it!  How often does that happen?  

4 Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts (I did use frozen breasts)

16 Ounce Bottle of Italian Dressing (I used low fat)

1/2 Cup of Parmesan Cheese

Italian Seasoning

4-6 Potatoes scrubbed cut in half or wedges (you can peel if desired)

1/2 bag of mini carrots

Spray crock with Pam

Squirt a small amount of Italian dressing at bottom of crock-pot.

Place two chicken breasts in crock.

Pour some of the Italian dressing on the chicken.

Sprinkle half of cheese onto the chicken.

Sprinkle Italian seasoning onto the chicken.

Place next two chicken breasts into crock-pot, if possible not directly on top of the first breasts.

Sprinkle remaining cheese on top of chicken.

Pour carrots on top

Pour more of the Italian dressing on top of chicken and carrots.

Sprinkle Italian seasoning onto the chicken and carrots.

Place potatoes on top.

Pour the remaining Italian dressing on the potatoes.

Sprinkle Italian seasoning on the potatoes.

Cook on low for 6-8 hours.

I apologize now for the horrible plated photograph, this is what happens when the natives are restless.