Roast for dinner!

I made a roast for dinner tonight. Not because I love roast, because I don't. My husband loves roast beef. And so I decided to see if I liked it any more if I made it myself (it's worked for several dishes that I've previously considered mediocre).

This morning I cut up and onion into nice big wedges, and added small red potatoes and baby carrots into the crock pot. I mixed about a cup or so of red wine with a couple of teaspoons of flour to thicken the sauce, and a teaspoon or so of fresh chopped rosemary. I poured that into the crock pot and tossed the veggies around in it.

For the meat itself, I bought a smallish chuck roast at the store and trimmed the fat and silverskin from the surface of it, best I could. I then poured soy sauce over the roast to season and moisten it and rubbed it in. I then mixed up about a tablespoon each of dried thyme, dried oregano, black pepper, and fresh rosemary and patted it onto the surface of the roast. Then I placed the roast in the crock pot on top of the veggies. I turned the crock pot on high for about six hours, and C turned it down to low for the last hour or two.

It turned out fantastic! So moist, with a nice herb crust on the outside. The veggies were perfect, and there was a great red wine au jus in the pot that I plan to use for French dip sandwiches tomorrow! I think by only adding a little liquid to the pot, it created a nice steamy moist cooking environment instead of drawing out all the liquid from the meat. I liked it, and C said it was the best roast he's ever had, and I earned by first 10.0 rating for a meal from him. I've had lots of 8's and 9's, but this was my first 10.