Simple meals without lots of added ingredients are not only easy to prepare, but they are healthy and are safe for my son with food allergies.
For example, I recently cooked a beef roast in the crock pot with nothing more than salt, pepper, and a little water. It was tender, juicy, and delicious.
The roast had a layer of fat on one side so I placed the meat in my crockpot with the fat side up, sprinkled some salt and pepper on it, and added about 1/2 cup of water. I set the crockpot to low and let the roast cook for a little over 8 hours.
When the roast was finished I removed it from the crockpot and sliced it. I could have made a gravy out of the juices but we decided just to dip our meat in the juice “as-is”. A baked potato, roasted carrots, and a smoothie rounded out the meal. Simple and delicious!
Speaking of roasted vegetables, I cooked the carrots pictured above in another crockpot using the method described on Crockpot 365. While this is an easy method, we have been preferring oven roasted vegetables.
My husband usually likes to have me boil vegetables to make them very tender. However, I was pleased to find that he really liked the way I roasted the vegetables pictured above. Click the link below to find out how I made them.
Oven Roasted Vegetables Recipe
One last thing, did you know you can bake potatoes in the crockpot? Here’s a post I wrote all about baking potatoes in a crockpot.
Basically, the entire meal at the top of this post could be made in the crockpot, but you would need 3 of them. 🙂
