My First Roast!

Tonight we had a roast for dinner, and as I told Michelle 'It was pretty darn good!' Ive never made a roast before, so it was definitely a learning experience.

Before I went to the grocery store on Monday, I flipped through a few cook books trying to find something new and yummy to make this week. I found this roast recipe in a Crock Pot cook book that Brandon's Aunt Lavonne gave us at one of our wedding showers. She gave us the Crock Pot, too. Thanks, Lavonne!!

The recipe called for a 2 lb. boneless chuck roast. When I got to the store, I realized I had NO idea what that was (Mom, don't laugh!). I walked through the meat section twice, and then realized that I didn't know if I should be looking in the beef section or the pork section (Seriously, no laughing!). I called my mom to ask her what the heck I was supposed to buy, but she didn't answer. I'm not at all afraid to ask questions, so when I spotted a meat-section-worker (not sure what his real title was), I waved him down. "Sir, I'm making a roast for the first time. My recipe calls for a...(digging out my list to remember what it's called)...2 lb. boneless chuck roast. Do you know where I could find that?" He smiled, chuckled, and politely found exactly what I was looking for. (It's with the beef, for those of you who were also wondering.)

So after getting home with all the ingredients, the plan was to eat the roast on Thursday night. I had skimmed the recipe to see how long it was supposed to cook, but I didn't read it too closely. I woke up Thursday morning, and was excited to get the roast cooking! As I gathered the ingredients I read the first step: "Marinate roast and first two ingredients in refrigerator for at least 8 hours, turning occasionally." 8 hours! If I marinated the roast for 8 hours and cooked it for 10 hours, we could eat dinner at about 3:00a.m. on Friday morning. Well, that wasn't going to work. So I put the roast and seasonings in a large Zip-Lock on Thursday evening and ordered us a pizza. (So much for Goal #2.)

Finally, after following all the directions and putting everything in the Crock Pot, my first roast was cooking early this morning! I checked on it throughout the day and could not wait to taste it! I also loved how yummy our house smelled all day :) Brandon got home from work, and I added the last few ingredients. We sat down to eat, and it was delicous!

As I looked at our meal, I thought "This is something my mom would make." And if I can make something that my mom would make, then maybe I'm turning out to be an okay cook ;)


**Please, no judgements on the pizza. I've been fighting a cold since Monday and had no energy to make anything else. And it's okay to indulge every now and then, right??