My mother has, for some time, been suggesting that I obtain a Crock Pot, but I had resisted doing so because I'm lazy and using such a thing requires more forethought than I usually put into my dinners. Last week, however, my mother sent me a Crock Pot as a sort of Thanksgiving present. Due to various reasons, I was unable to make use of it until today when I made my first attempt at using it.

I actually began last night by preparing the a recipe that came included for the preparation of a pot roast. All of that work took perhaps an hour and I left the perpared ingredients in the cermic base in the fridge overnight and then left it to cook while I was at work (total cook time ~10 hours).



I have to say that this is probably the tastiest thing that I've eaten in several months. When I was spooning it out into my bowl, I cut the roast using a plastic spoon. I consider this a testament to the success of the dish. Obviously, there was too much to eat in one sitting (the meat alone was 3.4 lbs raw), so we'll see how well the dish holds up on a first (and probably second) reheating.

The only change that I wish I had made was to put in more potatos (the recipe called for only 3 potatos) and that I had prepared dinner rolls before beginning to eat it.



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