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    Yes, but we also include turnips and rutabaga. I’ve been tempted to add beets but don’t want it to look like a murder

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      19 hours ago

      The easiest pot roast recipe:

      • One chuck roast
      • Carrots
      • Potatoes
      • 1 head of garlic
      • Onion
      • Two packets of brown gravy mix.
      • Two packets of ranch dressing mix (yes, really).
      • Two packets of Italian dressing mix (yes, really).
      • Browning & seasoning sauce.
      • Beef stock
      1. Combine packets in a bowl, and stir to evenly combine.
      2. Rub pot roast with a few dashes of browning sauce, until evenly covered.
      3. Chop carrots and potatoes into large chunks. Slice onion
      4. Peel garlic cloves.
      5. Fuckin throw everything into a slow cooker.
      6. Sprinkle seasoning mix over everything.
      7. Add about an inch of beef stock to the bottom of the pot.
      8. Set slow cooker to low, and fuck off for like 8-10 hours. Or if you’re using a leaner cut of meat, set to high and fuck off for 5’ish hours instead.
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    …I can’t find it.

    Where’s the Ed Sheeran bit? I’m sure there’s a reference in there.

    Is he the carrot? He’s the carrot, isn’t he?

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      Not anymore. The meat part got damned expensive. It used to be a hearty affordable meal that wasn’t hard to cook and tasted good for the amount of effort you had to put into it.

      Kind of like how nobody makes hamburger helper anymore. It was popular back when a pound of hamburger was like a buck. Now that it’s $5 a pound no ones wastes it on the stuff.

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      (Click saving) this guy (and myself) move the potatoes to another ceramic, add celery to the carrot-onion mix & chop that and leave it under the roast

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        Bit more info, this is a common combination for stocks, soups and stews in French cuisine, traditionally 2:1:1 ratio onions to carrots and celery.

        In Italian cuisine the essentially same thing is Sofrito, there is also the Cajun Holy Trinity which varies ingredients but is for similar purposes.

        This is kind of a staple for a lot of quality cooking, you should at least make a stock from scratch at some point in your life and you’ll see why these combinations are so important if you do so.

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        I’m gonna have to try that sometime. At my house, pork shoulder tends to get used for carnitas or pulled-pork barbecue.

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          We usually get a tenderloin at Costco and cut it into chops and roasts. Some of the roasts get made into carnitas and pulled pork as well, but we will just season one up and bbq it for an hour too.

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            “Tenderloin” or just regular “loin?”

            Tenderloin is the pig equivalent of filet mignon; IMO it’s too tender to justify the sorts of cooking methods you use to compensate for cheaper, tougher meat.

            Seems reasonable for regular loin, though. I’d still usually pick shoulder for low and slow cooking because it works just as well and tends to be cheaper, but sometimes it isn’t.

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                I almost did a spit take when I saw that huge $9.99 number. Then I realized that it was in CAD and per kg, which works out to be cheaper than it is here in the Southeast US (about $4 USD / lb), LOL!

                Still kinda think a pressure cooker is overkill for a tenderloin that would cook up just fine with a dry cooking method (roasting or pan-grilling, like a steak) though. With your pressure cooker method, you could save $2 CAD / kg (plus an extra $5 off) getting regular loin and it would turn out just as good.

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                  I cut about 1/3 off the undesirable end for the roast, the majority is for chops. It’s more to break up the monotony of that if that make sense.

                  Don’t always have the time for low and slow and try not to keep too many different variety’s in the freezer. I know there is ways to pinch a few more pennies if needed ;)

                  Edit, actually now that I look at the link, that’s the one we usually get, but it’s not always available. We’ve been forced to get the tendorloin lately. Sometimes even the 2 pack, which are smaller ones.