Kickass Pot Roast

By Buffy Winterrose

A Roast
Onion
Lipton Soup Mix
Cornstarch
Perhaps some Beef Bouillon-use “BETTER THAN BOUILLON”!

Put the roast in either a crock pot or an oven roast cooker pot. Add the onions in rings so you can pick them out later. Rub some pepper and a bit of salt on the roast. Put in enough water till it’s at the top of the roast. If the roast is small put less water, or even better use a pot to fit the size. The roast will be super dry if there’s a ton of water and not so much roast. If you have a small roast and a big pot you can put in a scoop or three of Beef Better Than Bouillon to help the roast not leach all the flavor into the water. Cover and cook for 3-4 hours in a crock pot on high or 6-7 hours on low. In the oven- cook at 350 for 3-4 hours.

Take the roast out of cooking container and set aside. Put “juice” in a saucepan. Heat to boiling. Put ¼ cup cornstarch in cold water and whisk them together. Don’t use flour. I PROMISE it tastes better with cornstarch. Acclimate it with hot water then add to the juice and let it thicken. Add Beef Bouillon if it needs more flavor. That’s your gravy. If it needs to be thicker make more cornstarch paste and add it.

Keep the onions in for flavor while you’re making the gravy. If you don’t want to eat them then take them out before you serve the roast.

Put the gravy back in the pot you cooked the roast in. This is important. Put the roast in the same pot with the gravy so it won’t dry out. If your roast is dry and tastes like poo then cut it up into slices and put it back in with the gravy so it won’t taste as bad. I’ve salvaged more than one roast this way.

You can keep your roast in with the gravy and serve it out of there or you can wait till you’re just ready to serve it and then take it out and put it on a plate. You don’t want it sitting around too much out of the gravy because it will dry out and taste like poo. And that’s no good.

Roasts are good with smashed red potatoes and veggies or mashed potatoes and veggies.