Chiptole Pot Roast

My husband and I resisted the Crock Pot with every fiber of our beings.  We refused to put one on our registry last year, claiming that the Crock Pot was an excuse for lazy cooking.  We had survived two and a half years of Crock Pot-free cooking - we could survive without it for eternity!

Then something changed.  We got busy!  We kept finding perfect crock pot meals online.  Suddenly, the Crock Pot became something of a dream.  If only we could cook dinner while we were at work, how wonderful would our lives be?  (Ok, maybe a bit of an exaggeration...it just ended up seeming practical).  Last weekend we were roaming an electronics/home appliances store, and there it was - the slow cooker of my dreams. A 5 quart Crock Pot brand slow cooker on sale for $14.  Really?  $14?  Yes.  I told my husband to hold the box while I skipped to the front of the store to get a cart.  Sweet, beautiful, fourteen dollar Crock Pot.  It was now mine.

So without further ado, behold my first Crock Pot experience - Chipotle Pot Roast!  Feel free to change amounts as you go and make it your own.  It also has nothing to do with Texas cooking, except I used barbeque sauce....so it counts.

1 Roast (Choose beef cut - we got your basic pot roast)
Worcester Sauce
Barbeque Sauce (we used Kraft Sweet and Spicy Chipotle)
2 Garlic cloves (roughly chopped)
1 onion, chopped
baby carrots
1 1/2 cups Beef Broth
1 green pepper, chopped
10 baby potatoes
Spices to taste

1) Marinate roast overnight with part of the worcester and barbeque sauce, and any spices (eyeball it - i used about half a cup of bbq, and a quarter cup worcester...but it mainly just needs to coat the meat)
2) Put roast in Crock Pot, including as much leftover sauce as possible.  Add garlic, onion, potatoes, and beef broth.  Add more barbeque and worcester sauce as you see fit.  I added the carrots and green pepper after about 7 hours so they wouldn't be too mushy, but you can add them now too.  Spice to taste
3) Cook on low for 10 hours (or high for 6 hours)
4) Serve and enjoy!

Until we eat again!
Jamie