The Joy of Cooking
Did one of my favorite activities today.
I cooked.
I started at about 6:45 this morning. Sally had
bought a pot roast, about 2.5 pounds. I whipped out my one of my Henckels knives
and ran it across the diamond sharpener and hone to make certain I had a good
edge on it.
Took out a bowl and added some flour and season
salt. Set aside a paper plate and started hand trimming the roast. I carefully
coated each piece with the flour mixtue and set it aside on the paper
plate.
After the meat was completely trimmed and floured I
took out an onion and diced it up and set it aside.
Took out the skillet, added enough oil to lightly
cover the bottom and got it nice and hot. Whipped out the tongs and started
adding the pieces of meat leaving plenty of room so they wouldn't stick to
each other or start steamimg the meat. Browned all the pieces and added a little
more oil and dumped in the onions. As they started turning translucent I added
some minced garlic. Just as the edges of the onion were carmelizing I dumped the
onions into the crock pot, opened a bottle of Sam Adams Octoberfest and used it
to deglaze the pan. Reduced the beer a little and dumped it into the crock pot.
I added another bottle of Sam Adams, put in the meat, set the pot to high and
went to work.
Around 10ish I went out and peeled the russets
Sally had bought and cut them into about a 1/4" dice. Took 12 ounces of baby
carrots and cut them in 1/2 or 1/3's depending on their size and diced 4 stalks
of celery. I intentionally waited to added the vegggies because I wanted them
tender but still retaining their shape. I like potatoes in stew that still ahve
a little bit of tooth to them.
I mixed up 2 cups of beef broth, opened an 8 ounce
can of tomato sauce and dumped them and the veggies into the meat, onion, and
beer mixture. After mixing everything up I tasted the broth and decided a
touch of sea salt, some paprika and fresh ground pepper medley would add a nice
touch.
Left the crock pot on high and walked away until
about an hour ago. Ummm Ummm Good!
Sally must of liked it as she's taking some for
lunch tomorrow. I still have left over chili from Sunday so I may have to vacuum
seal some of this and save it for that rainy day they are forecasting for us
this weekend.
Can't wait because it usually even better after it
sits overnight.
AgentZ
