Pot Roast to die for

January 22nd, 2008, 01:58 PM

Well I don't promise not to speak of food again and neither should Nuggler. Pot roast is hardly the preferred food for the rich. Mikey, if you scaled down the recipe I posted for one person you could buy a suitable roast for around five or six bucks that would feed you dinner for five or six days. While there is nothing nutritionally wrong with wieners and beans, there are other options. This pot roast is one of them.

January 22nd, 2008, 02:29 PM

I love roasts cooked in a crock pot, I usually cook one every couple weeks or so. Put it in in the morning and by the time I get home it's tender meat to die for

January 22nd, 2008, 03:37 PM

Beans and eggs also rock. But probably you can get a better value for your money. Buying a package of dried beans and rice and a few spices would cost you about the same as a pack of wieners but you could get many more healthy and fulfilling meals out of it.

In season vegetables also make for an inexpensive option to processed food. All you need is a window, dirt and water to grow your own herbs. Fresh herbs change everything.

That some have to live on $300 per month, is just the same as it ever was. At that end of the spectrum, you are guilty long before you walk in the door so you might as well learn how to play that game. No one has to live on that kind of money except for those who play by the rules expecting that some day salvation will come.

January 22nd, 2008, 03:59 PM

pork shoulder is another awesome option, and healthier than weiners. Not to mention great for making homemade baked beans, which are way cheaper than canned, and tastier too.

January 22nd, 2008, 04:49 PM

Good idea. Often the stores will have smoked ham shanks on sale at a reasonable price and they are also great in a bean pot.
Right now I have a couple ham shanks simmering on the stove in a big pot of water with split peas, chopped onion and a chopped carrot to make split pea soup. Great comfort food and it freezes well.

January 22nd, 2008, 10:42 PM

What is this? I have heard of it, but I have never tried it. No one in Texas makes this. Now this might be something for which I'd like the recipe. I make a Cajun gravy in the blender and pour it over the roast in the crock pot. No wine. Still excellent, but so
EXPENSIVE. I can't afford it very often. How much did that 6 lb. roast cost?

Uncle

January 22nd, 2008, 10:46 PM

Well, shoot, I meant to tell you what our Sunday dinner was. Normally I don't cook on Sunday, but we are trying to establish a new family tradition where we get together for
a meal on Sunday evening and then have a movie.

We had: baked ham, au gratin potatoes from scratch, pinto beans, Waldorf salad, French sourdough rolls and Boston Creme Pie.

Uncle

January 22nd, 2008, 10:49 PM


Yet he can afford internet access

January 22nd, 2008, 10:52 PM

The only roast they I will allow my wife to buy is a standing rib...anything else I consider a waste of money, and as for steaks....Tenderloin only.

January 22nd, 2008, 11:36 PM

I used to be a big fan of porterhouse, then the fillet Mignon but I have to say that the rib eye steak is a fine cut and has the nicest flavour broiled during the winter months.

January 23rd, 2008, 01:20 AM


'Will allow ?, well, if it was me, I would arrive home with dog food.

I love barbecued steak, new york, rib, and, if you know how to cook well, one can
make almost any peice of meat taste great.
A cheap boneless chuck steak will taste absolutely great barbecued, when prepared
properly.

January 23rd, 2008, 08:35 AM

Nuggler

No offense taken my friend.

I'm living the legacy of the Mike Harris government's regard for the disabled, and no I don't honestly believe that anyone on this site think the situation is either fair or appropriate. It's been like this for me and many others for 12 years and the McGuinty government of Ontario felt it approprate to give MPPs a 25% raise while the disabled recieved 2%. A 2% raise covers a haircut for me but doesn't radically change the quality of life I can lead.

I'm sorry if anyone felt I was dumping on the gang here at CC... That wasn't my intent. Despite those who feel that waging wars in the name of democracy and "freedom" is a good and appropriate thing for Canada to be doing...there are a great many Canadians who live at and below the same level as I. Is there any reasonable expectation that Canada will take care of its citizens before it decides to play brother-war-monger with America?

Probably not, and in the interim, hundreds of thousands of Canadians will be forced to make a choice between eating and living in-doors, between living in darkness because they can't afford electricity and staying fixed in one spot because they can't afford the bus. We've made choices and even if the concensus is that families and the disabled, aboriginals and the elderly are second class citizens, it's tough to understand that Lebannese and Afghanis and so many others who've contributed nothing to this country get a so-much-larger slice of a limited pie.

Sorry...grousing a bit...

January 23rd, 2008, 08:37 AM

GerryH

If but for the actions of Curiosity I would have lost my phone and my dial-up access months ago. My access costs $15.00 a month and is the one luxury I can afford. Sorry that upsets you.

January 23rd, 2008, 09:14 AM

January 23rd, 2008, 09:21 AM

That gerry eats pretty good don't he, sounds like his missis is really well supervised too. I wonder what else she's allowed or not allowed to do. He's pretty fast at condemning the poor and homeless and the unemployed. Comparatively, you and I seem to be better christians than he. Both of us would have a far easier time slipping through those pearly gates if they actually existed . That's all just my opinion though, I don't think he is actually christian, certainly dosn't sound like what I've been told a true christian is. but hey maybe the criteria has changed and it's a club for bigotry now.

January 23rd, 2008, 09:40 AM

Beve

It's nice that Gerry can find me guilty of something for wasting $15 a month on my Internet connection, isn't that the way most people feel about the elderly and the disabled? It makes much more sense for me to distribute that $15/month to the people helped by the affluent folk like Roberts and Swaggart and Bakkers...all those good Christians who were dirven around in stretch limos and could afford air-conditioned dog-houses....

Seems kind of petty on Gerry's part but hey...if it's OK with god....

January 23rd, 2008, 09:47 AM

What's it got to do with ****ing potroast?

January 23rd, 2008, 09:56 AM

Sorry Unforgiven

Pot roast is just swell.