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Scooby's Eggin again!

Chuck roast went well today at work. I cooked your chuck roast (5 pounder)as normal, but without the potatoes, celery, carrots. Then added them in the morning to the crock pot. I also used the broth from the cook to make the gravy last night. The only thing that I had to do was add more chicken and beef broth in the crock pot today. The chuck roast was eggcellent! Gravy was eggcellent! The veggies I added did not have time to fully cook. Only 4 hours in the crock pot on high. Potatoes and carrots were a little on the cruchy side, but still good. Better when I cooked them with the meat. I lost some flaver I think because I used most of the broth for the gravy the night before. But still good! I think if I was to do it again I would cook the potatoes, carrots with the meat for an hour or so to get the flavor from the meat. Pull them and add the 1/2 cooked items to the crock pot the next day. Still I had many compliments on the meat and the unbeleivable gravy this cook produces. Thanks for all of your help! You help make this a very fun cook, and everyone at my work enjoyed it.
Thanks again,
Scooby (Rich)

Grandpas Grub

 
Rich, I am glad it worked out well for you and appreciate reading the follow up.

You have me wondering how the flavor would change without using the veggies, something I need to try.

With your cook maybe you idea of adding the veggies to the meat 1/2 way through the egg part of the cook or even later on in the cook. I don't think potatoes add much to the cook, rather they take on the flavor. I think the onions add a lot of flavor. I am not sure about the carrots. I have wondered about celery but I am not sure if I want that flavor in the mix. Another thing to try.

Glad the folks like the food.

Kent

'Q Bruddah

Onions carots and celery = mir a poix, sometimes called aromatics. French markets of old used to give them away with each purchase since it was "just understood" that they were essential to any recipe.