Two Dinners in One

Sometimes we like to have roast for Sunday dinner. My husband is more of the specialist in this area, but I am getting better. I still can’t always tell you what cut of meat is what, but at least I can now cook a roast without turning it into shoe leather. Sorry, I digress; let’s get back to the topic at hand here. Making a roast can really be quite easy and hands-free. Plus, one of my favorite things about cooking a roast on Sunday is that if you make mashed potatoes and gravy with it, you can whip up a shepherd's pie when you are putting away all of the left-overs and you have an automatic meal for another night during the week. It’s like two dinners in one. I love it!Here are two of our favorite roast recipes:

PORK ROAST

Ingredients:

1 boneless 3-5 pound pork roast (we like the ones you can buy in the triple pack at COSTCO.They are fairly inexpensive and really good)

Lawry’s Garlic Salt

Freshly ground black pepper

Dried rosemary sprigs (grind with a mortar and pestle before applying to your meat)

• Preheat your oven to 250 degrees.
• Place roast in a medium-sized roasting pan (with a lid), and sprinkle liberally with garlic salt, pepper, and rosemary.
• Bake, covered, at 250 degrees for 3-5 hours (depending upon the size of your roast).
• Remove from oven and let rest for 5-10 minutes before slicing. Serve with mashed potatoes, gravy*, and your choice of veggies.

* We just make up the IKEA gravy packet and then mix it together with the juices from the roast. Cheating? Maybe, we think it tastes pretty good.

BEEF ROAST (my friend gave me this recipe, and I really like it. The meat is very tender and the soup and meat juices make a nice, automatic gravy for you)

Ingredients:

1 can Cream of Mushroom Soup (without water added)

1 package onion soup mix

1 cup water

1 pot roast

• Combine all ingredients into a crock pot and cook on low for 10 hours.

Wow, this post just got really long; will post Shepherd's Pie recipes soon...