Pot Roast Beef With Carrots & Cointreau

Hello to all you foodies out there in web land, I hope you are all staying warm.  I hope your not in the way of that big snow storm that is hitting the East coast.  Pot Roast is what recipe I will be passing on to you all to try and I think its a great comfort food that warms your belly as well as your soul.  My mom would make pot roast every Sunday at our house and she called it Yankee Pot Roast.  She would Sear it with flour coated on the outside with Garlic, Onions and sear it on all sides of the meat until it was nice and brown.  Then she'd make a gravy out of the drippings, throw it in a pot with Celery, Carrots, and Onions, toss some Salt and Pepper on it and bake it for about 3 hours or so on about 350 degrees.  It was wonderful and tasty. Something that left happy memories for us when we were home.  Any who I hope you enjoy this recipe I made up while I was in Texas visiting family.

Roast Beef With Carrots & Cointreau

1 Roast 4 to 5 pounds

3 TBLS Oil

1/2 cup flour

 salt & pepper to taste

1 TBLS Garlic & Onion Powders

2 tsp Thyme

Mix the flour with the salt, pepper, garlic, onion powders, and thyme.  Rub the mix all over the roast.  Heat the oil in a pan and to that you add 1/2 cup chopped onion and 6 cloves of garlic. Then add the floured roast and sear the meat on all sides until it is nice and brown.  Grease a roasting pan with a lid and add the browned roast into the pan.  then add:

3 ribs chopped celery, 1/2 onion, diced, 8 carrots cleaned and skinned.

1 can of French Onion Soup

1/2 cup water

1 package cleaned mushrooms.

Now take the drippings from your searing pan and add 1 cup of your cointreau and simmer until it is all mixed and the pan feels smooth on the bottom, pour the rue over the roast.  Cover your pan and roast in a pre- heated oven at 350 degrees for about 3 and a half hours.  this may also be cooked in a slow cooker or crock pot, however if you cook the roast in a slow cooker then place your vegetables on the bottom and your roast on the top.  Also cooking time for the roast will be about 6 to 7 hours in a slow cooker. 

Hope you enjoy this recipe and if you have any questions please write me at madjon51@aol.com.  Please visit my page on face book, "Cooking With MadJon & Friends".  Happy trails to you until we meet again.