Crock Pot Roast

ingredients ready for the crock pot

I'm getting ready to load up the crock pot before heading out to celebrate St. Patrick's Day Pittsburgh Style. Well, hopefully I personally won't be celebrating in the full Pittsburgh vomit-inducing, public-urination style tradition. I've actually only been "out" for St. Patrick's Day once in Pittsburgh. It was moderately fun. 

But anyway the point is to load up the crock pot with a nice hearty meal for when we come back. We have some nice pieces of steak that I browned. I cut up a few potatoes and carrots and a couple stalks of celery. I made a low sodium chicken based broth and spiced the steaks very simply with onion salt and gourmet white pepper.

All loaded up!

It's all ready for assembly as desired, and then we'll have a delicious meal waiting when we get back later today!!  

Oh, FYI, it's a rather cool, gloomy morning, so I've been listening to James Taylor while prepping this meal, drinking coffee, and Pomeranian snugglin'.

Almost ready!

So, we ended up staying in all day since it was so gloomy out. We both felt like lounging rather than partying. We finally got the crock pot loaded up around 1. Of course we forgot to turn it on until about 2, but that's ok.

After it finished cooking in the crock pot, we strained out the veggies and made amazing gravy with the liquid. It was all delicious!

Yum!