Easter Sunday Pot Roast

Despite the fact that Mike and I (and Blue and Lion) have been a family for about four Easters now. (Okay only two Easters for Lion), we still don't have any really Easter traditions in place. In fact I think the past four Easters we've done something different.

So I thought for this year, especially now that Blu is 3 and a half and kind of gets what Easter is about, that we should start some Easter traditions. And really that means setting up an Easter dinner tradition. I know that the common dinner for Easter is ham, but I'm not really much of a ham fan (or most pork products for that matter). Instead for me, Easter represents the end of winter and the beginning of spring. And when I think of a meal to end winter with, I often think of pot roast. Its similar to beef stew, which I guess if you live up north you could eat a long over winter. (Its hearty and hot, what's not to love all winter long?) And I just love that in pot roast you can use up your winter veggies that you still have stashed around. (Carrots, potatoes, and other root veggies). So instead of ham, I decided that a pot roast would be the perfect dinner for our Easter dinner (for this year and for year's to come)

The Recipe

The Perfect Crock Pot Pot Roast

from Recipes That Crock

Results

Last year I made this recipe as is, but this year I wanted to try something different. So I halved the amount of roast the recipe calls for (I used about 1lb) and decided to add more veggies to the mix. So I added in celery sticks and sweet potatoes and because I'm not a huge fan of onions, I only threw in a half of one.

Once I had everything chopped up I threw it all into the crock pot and covered with some brown gravy.

And after 8 long hours, the pot roast was ready!

I made the mistake of adding more liquid in it than I should have. (I only used one packet of Brown Gravy and it didn't look like enough liquid so I added an extra cup of water in to the mix.) So it ended up a little liquidy on the plate.