Give me a tried and true recipe for pot roast!

[iamtrout]

All I've been doing is thus:

Roast
Potatoes
Canned Tomatoes
Onion Soup Mix
Carrots
Condensed Mushroom Soup

Put in crock pot, cook low for 8-10 hours.

I'm getting bored with the taste, plus it doesn't taste nearly as good as the pot roasts from, say, Golden Corral.

Anyone else have any better, but still simple, recipes?

 

[FoBoT]

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_15691,00.html

Alton Brown is a Food Geek

1 (2-pound) blade cut chuck roast
2 teaspoons kosher salt
2 teaspoons cumin
Vegetable oil
1 medium onion, chopped
5 to 6 cloves garlic, smashed
1 cup tomato juice
1/3 cup balsamic vinegar
1 cup cocktail olives, drained and broken
1/2 cup dark raisins

Preheat the oven to 190-200 degrees F. Place a wide, heavy skillet or fry pan over high heat for 2 minutes. Meanwhile, rub both sides of meat with the salt and cumin. When the pan is hot (really hot) brown meat on both sides and remove from pan. Add just enough vegetable oil to cover the bottom of the pan then add the onion and garlic. Stir constantly until onion is softened. Add the tomato juice, vinegar, olives, and raisins. Bring to a boil and reduce the liquid by half. Create a pouch with wide, heavy duty aluminum foil. Place half the reduced liquid/chunk mixture on the foil, add the roast, and then top with the remaining mixture. Close the pouch, and wrap tightly in another complete layer of foil. Cook for 3 to 3 1/2 hours or until a fork pushes easily into the meat. Remove from oven and rest (still wrapped) for at least 1/2 hour. Snip off 1 corner of the foil pouch and drain the liquid into a bowl or measuring cup. Add some of the "chunkies" and puree with an immersion blender. Slice meat thinly, or pull apart with a fork. Serve with sauce.

 

[iamtrout]

You've tried this one and it's good?

 

[bootdisk]

2 cans cream of mushroom soup
1 packet Lipton Onion soup mix (plain old onion soup mix, not golden)
1 beef roast

Put 1 can of soup in the crock pot, then the onion soup mix. Stir, then add beef, and the other can of mushroom soup on top of the beef. Cook on low for first hour, then high for next seven.

Serve w/rice & your choice of veggies.

 

[Pliablemoose]

Brown the roast, use any dried Lipton soup, throw in crock pot & cook.

Another interesting crock pot meal is to throw in a turkey breast with a dried soup, yummy & a nice change.

Go to allrecipies.com & try the highly rated recipies, they're pretty good.