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Recipe Exchange: Sunday Pot Roast, Instant Pot and Slow-Cooker Versions

by TaMara (HFG)|  January 26, 20206:06 pm| 53 Comments

This post is in: Food, Food & Recipes, Recipe Exchange, Recipes, yes, I know your recipe is always better than mine

In my quest to update some of my older recipes for Instant Pot style cooking, here is one of my favorites. I love being able to set this up and an hour and a half later have a perfectly cooked pot roast – tender and flavorful – along with all the sides. Sunday Pot Roast …

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Instant Pot (or in my case, Multi-Pot)

Coat roast in 1 tbsp of flour. Heat 1 tbsp of oil in the pan on the saute setting and then add roast. Brown lightly on all sides. Add liquid, rosemary, bay leaves, salt, pepper and onion.

Cover and cook on meat setting for 1 hour. Use the quick pressure release method, and when pressure is relieved, open (carefully) and add potatoes and carrots. Bring back to pressure and cook for 20 minutes. This keeps the vegetables from overcooking.

Gravy –  I usually cheat a bit on the gravy. I remove meat and veggies, and then I take 1/2 cup of beef broth and mix with 1 tbsp of flour, stirring well. I then bring the beef juices (about 1 cup, if more, you’ll need more flour) to a boil on the saute setting and stir in the flour mixture, stirring at a boil until thickened.  Then I turn the heat off and let simmer for 5 minutes (it will remain hot for that amount of time).  Not as tasty as a gravy started with a roux, but it does the trick and you’ll never have lumps.

Slow-Cooker Recipe:

Optional:  coat roast in 1 tbsp flour and brown on all sides in 1 tbsp oil in a  skillet before adding to slow-cooker.  Nice, but not necessary for great flavor.

Add roast & liquid to slow-cooker.  Sprinkle rosemary, bay leaves, salt & pepper on top of roast.  Add in order: onion, potatoes and carrots (this keeps carrots from overcooking).  Cover & cook according to your slow-cooker directions (they vary considerably) usually 8 to 10 hours on low.

Gravy – When I use a slow-cooker, I usually cheat a bit on the gravy. I remove meat and veggies, and then I take ½ cup of beef broth and mix with 1 tbsp of flour, stirring well. I then bring the beef juices (about 1 cup, if more, you’ll need more flour) in the slow-cooker to a boil (high setting on slow-cooker) and stir in the flour mixture, stirring at a boil until thickened.  Then I reduce the heat back to low and let simmer for 5 minutes.  Not as tasty as a gravy started with a roux, but it does the trick and you’ll never have lumps.

The original recipe is featured in the Summer to Fall Cookbook

What’s on your menu tonight? I’m sure everyone has a favorite pot roast recipe, let’s hear it. This is the place to talk about all your favorite recipes.

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Hanukkah 2019: A Festival of Lights in Food

by Adam L Silverman|  December 22, 20198:17 pm| 115 Comments

This post is in: Cooking, Food, Food & Recipes, Open Threads, Recipes

My family has just left. I’m exhausted. I’ve been cleaning and cooking since about 11 AM this morning. Though I did my baking last night. One of the butcher shops in the area where I get meat and chicken from regularly has grass fed beef short ribs for a reasonable price. Since my brother, sister …

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Recipe Exchange: Thanksgiving Food Coma, Anyone?

by TaMara (HFG)|  November 24, 20197:07 pm| 47 Comments

This post is in: Food & Recipes, Recipes, yes, I know your recipe is always better than mine

It’s that time of year again here in the United States, when we sit around a large table, stuff our faces and argue politics and religions. Remember, the people you piss off at Thanksgiving are people you won’t need to buy Christmas gifts for in December.  ? In anticipation of the big day, here are …

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Spatchcock Turkey Prep

Roasted Spatchcock Turkey

  • 1 tablespoon brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons ground black pepper
  • 3 tablespoons Kosher salt
  • 4 tablespoons dried sage
  • 1 tablespoon dried rosemary
  • 1 whole turkey (10-14 pounds)
  • 4 tablespoons olive oil

Rimmed baking sheet, rack

In a spice grinder or with a mortar and pestle, crush together pepper, salt, sage and rosemary and add to brown sugar. Set aside.

With a sharp knife or scissors, remove the backbone of the turkey, flip over and press down on the breast bone to break and flatten. I wasn’t quite strong enough, so I turned the bird over, scored the bone, flipped it back and tried again, this time it broke easily. I then trimmed off the wing tips. See my notes below on what to do with the back and wing tips.

Place the bird flat, breast side up, on the rack in the baking sheet. Make a paste with spices and olive oil. Rub with spice mix and let rest at room temperature for 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Roast for 15 minutes, and then reduced temperature to 375 degrees F.  Cook an additional hour or until the temperature of the thickest part of the breast reaches 160 degrees. Remove from the oven, tent with foil and let rest for 15 minutes (during this time the bird temperature will reach 165 degrees and thighs should be 175 degrees).

Carve and serve.

NOTES: I took the back, wing tips, neck and giblets, covered them with water and simmered them for about an hour. I then used the broth for both the stuffing and gravy. I also cooked the stuffing in the oven, in a baking dish, uncovered, with the turkey after I have turned the oven down to 375. They finished up about the same time.

This is a great technique for wood grilling or smoking. I have grilled one on my wood pellet grill and it turned out great.

More Recipes: We have a bunch, a peck, a bushel, of Thanksgiving recipes, including my favorite Upside-Down Cranberry Cake (here), No-Boil Mashed Potatoes (here), and Non-Traditional Sides (here), click on this link for all the other recipes or search by name or ingredient in the search box at the bottom of the blog.

Have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!  – TaMara


Just an FYI (shameless plug) next year there will be another seasonal cookbook featuring holiday recipes.  Summer to Fall Cookbook is still available with a lot of useful menus to get you through winter.


Now it’s your turn. What are your Thanksgiving plans? What food must absolutely be on the table for your Thanksgiving dinner? What is your least favorite? And of course, share some of your favorite, super-secret family recipes!

Friday Recipe Exchange: Hearty Tomato Soup and Recipe Fails

by TaMara (HFG)|  October 11, 20197:47 pm| 143 Comments

This post is in: Cooking, Recipes

JeffreyW’s tasty tomato soup and grilled cheese Since we witnessed a 70-degree temperature drop here yesterday, soup had to be on the menu.  And since I have a counter full of ripe tomatoes, tomato soup sounded good.  This is not your basic canned soup and grilled cheese.  These recipes are tasty, hearty and easy to …

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Friday Recipe Exchange: Pasta w/Marinated Vegetable and Bruschetta

by TaMara (HFG)|  September 6, 20197:14 pm| 58 Comments

This post is in: Food & Recipes, Recipes

JeffreyW has his own take on Bruschetta here and here I’m not ready to jump into fall just yet. My garden is slowing down, but my tomatoes are still flourishing. I’ve been turning my bounty into frozen packets of fire-roasted tomatoes to be used for soups and sauces when the weather cools a bit. As I …

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Friday Recipe Exchange: Garden Fresh

by TaMara (HFG)|  August 23, 20198:51 pm| 23 Comments

This post is in: Cooking, Food & Recipes, Recipes

Oh, boy, recipes two weeks in a row, we might be starting something here. I spent the afternoon taking care of some fresh veggies that had been sitting on my counter all week. I love this time of year, when the garden provides harvest every morning. But it is difficult to keep up. Today I …

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Friday Recipe Exchange: Summer Grilling

by TaMara (HFG)|  August 16, 20197:27 pm| 72 Comments

This post is in: Cooking, Food & Recipes, Recipes

Nobody says the sliced strawberries can’t be served over pound cake. Photo by JeffreyW I finally finished the first of four cookbooks, so I thought I’d start the recipe threads again. Since I have the menus already formatted, it’s easy enough to copy and paste them into a thread once a week.  I’ve had a …

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