New Year’s Dinner!!!

Well, we had the best guests for New Year’s this year and that was my friend Randi and her family up from Baltimore.  Her husband Louis I just love and the kids…Luke and Sami …well they are like two more of my own. (and Sami is my godchild anyway!!)

So Randi calls and tells me she is bringing up two beautiful Sirloin roasts up with her (we need that much to feed the size of my family and hers combined of course!)

So on New Years Day I made wonderful pot roast.  If there were bones in it the meat would have fallen off of it!!!  It was so tender and moist you could cut it with a fork.

So I have to admit though, that as tasty as it all was, it was so easy my 9 year old daughter Angelina could have made it with 2 minutes worth of instruction!

Pot Roast

Ingredients

Roast

Onions

Potatoes

Carrots

Red Wine

Balsamic Vinegar

Broth

Salt

Fresh cracked black pepper

Directions

Rinse the meat, pat dry and lightly salt and pepper the whole thing.

In a nice hot pan pour just a slight covering of olive oil.  Sear the meat by dropping it in the pot letting is sizzle for a couple of minutes then turn it until you have quickly browned all the sides. 

Add the onions all around the sides of the meat and let them begin to soften. 

As soon as the onions are mostly clear, and your meat is seared, begin adding everything else.

Add the red wine (at least a good cup or two or three…and no i’m not kidding.)

Add about 1/4 cup of balsamic vinegar

Add at least as much no salt added broth (I used chicken this last time but you can use that or beef or even vegetable broth)  as you did red wine so you now have double the liquid covering at least 1/2 the meat.

Sprinkle some cracked black pepper (of course you can use regular black pepper if you don’t use or have a pepper mill!  Silly!)

then sprinkle a pinch of salt now and then test taste for salt at the end.

Once all the liquid is in the pot, throw in the potatoes and carrots cut in large chunks or they will get too mushy to quick!

Let it come to a boil then drop the heat and just let it simmer and make your house smell amazing for at least an hour.

When you go to cut the meat, as you slice it put the slices back in the pot to soak up more of the broth which is soooo tasty!  ( I usually take the potatoes out and put on the serving platter first then there is room to soak the meat in the pot in the juice) then you can take the meat and lay in the center of the platter with the potatoes and meat surrounding and it looks beautiful!

Then just serve with a nice salad or other green vegetable and you have a very nice dinner!

Enjoy!!!

Peace! 

 

Dorina  <3