40 Clove Garlic Beef

As I've said many times before, the slow cooker is my friend. This recipe takes a bit of extra preparation by peeling the garlic cloves, but it's so worth it! The roast is so incredibly tender and flavorful. I love eating the cloves! I served this with mashed potatoes and the cooking liquid was a great 'gravy'. I'm putting it in quotes because it's a bit thinner than normal gravy :)

40 Clove Garlic Beef-adapted from The MotherHOOD
Total Time: 7 hours
Serves 6

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 large onion, cut into rings
• 1 1/2 pound round beef roast
• 40 cloves garlic, peeled
• 2 1/2 cups beef stock
• Kosher salt and black pepper to taste
• 2 teaspoons dried oregano
• 1 teaspoon dried basil

In a medium skillet, heat olive oil over medium heat. Cook onions and garlic for about 5 minutes or until fragrant. Remove and set aside. 

Place beef in a 5-quart slow cooker. Top with the remainder of ingredients. Cook on low for 6-8 hours or until beef is cooked through and tender. 

Dr. Pepper Pot Roast

I've always seen lots of recipes online for Dr. Pepper pot roast but never got around to eating it. I grew up eating pot roast so anytime I see roast recipes I know I'm going to make them...one day. This ended up being so flavorful yet so moist. Even the next day! Being able to just put this in the slow cooker during the day makes it so easy! I just used a bag of mixed fruit, but you could certainly use more plums or apricots, whatever suits your fancy!

Dr. Pepper Pot Roast-adapted from "Semi-Homemade Cooking 2" by Sandra Lee
Total Time: 8 hours
Serves 8

• 1 teaspoon seasoned salt
• 1 teaspoon seasoned pepper
• 3 small onions, sliced
• 4-pound pork rump roast
• 2 teaspoons ground cloves
• 2 sticks cinnamon
• 1 whole bay leaf
• 12-ounces Diet Dr. Pepper
• 8 ounces mixed dried fruit, such as prunes and apricots

Season roast with salt & pepper. In a heavy skillet, brown meat over medium-high heat.

In a 4-quart slow cooker, place sliced onions, and place browned roast on top of onions. Season with cloves, cinnamon sticks and bay leaf. Top with Diet Dr. Pepper and fruit. Cook on high 3 to 4 hours, or on low 8-9 hours or until roast is cooked and tender.

Fruit Stuffed Pork Roast

When I first started cooking, I got this cook book from my mother. I went through the cookbook and put an 'x' next to all the recipes I was too afraid to try. I didn't want to try them because of multiple reasons: they had ingredients I wasn't familiar with, ingredients that I thought I didn't like, or just seemed too hard in general. Well, I've gotten over most of those fears and tried a recipe!

I didn't have any kitchen twine, so the picture doesn't look all that great, but the flavors were there and I'd make it again!

Fruit Stuff Pork Roast-adapted from New Slow Cooker Meals by Betty Crocker
Total Time: 6 hours
Serves 8

• 2 pound boneless pork loin roast
• 2 tablespoons dijon mustard
• 1 tablespoon butter, melted
• 1 cup prepared stuffing
• 1 cup diced dried fruit and rasin mixture
• 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon canola oil
• 1/2 cup apple juice
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon pepper

Cut horizontally down center length of pork to within 3/4 inch of opposite side. Open flat. From center, cut horizontally to within 3/4 inch from left side edge. Turn pork; repeat cutting to other side; open flat.

Mix mustard and butter in a small bowl. Spread half the mixture on inside surface of pork. Mix stuffing and fruit in another small bowl; spread over mustard coated surface. Roll roast; tie with kitchen twine. Spread remaining mustard mixture over outside of roast and rub with brown sugar.

Heat oil in a 12 inch nonstick pan over medium high heat. Cook pork in oil until brown on all sides. Place pork in a greased 5 quart slow cooker. Pour apple juice into skillet and cook 2-3 minutes to dissolve any remnants. Stir in salt and pepper and pour over pork.

Cook on low heat 6 to 8 hours or until pork is tender.

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Mushroom Pot Roast with Gravy

Any sort of roast is a favorite of mine, especially if it's made in the slow cooker. It always comes out so tender! That just reminds me of my grandma's roast recipe from when I was younger. Adding some additional veggies and flavors just makes it even better. Served with corn and mashed potatoes (the gravy is delicious) makes for a great week night meal that takes close to no time to prepare!

Beef Roast with Gravy

Mushroom Pot Roast with Gravy-adapted from Taste of Home Cooking School
Total Time: 6 hours
Serves 8

• 1 pound baby carrots
• 8 ounces fresh mushrooms, sliced
• 3 pound beef rump roast
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 1 tablespoon canola oil
• 1-12 ounce jar beef gravy
• 1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup
• 1 cup water
• 1 envelope onion soup mix

Place carrots and mushrooms in a lightly greased 5-quart slow cooker. Sprinkle roast with garlic powder and pepper. In a large skillet over medium heat, brown roast in oil on all sides. Transfer to slow cooker.

Combine the gravy, mushroom soup, water and onion soup mix in a small bowl and pour over roast. Cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours or until meat is tender. Serve with potatoes, or just the gravy over the beef.

Venison Roast

Our neighbor was nice enough to give us a 3 pound venison roast after hunting this year and I finally got around to making it! His one hint was that it was supposed to be tender,s o my first thought was to make it in the slow cooker! It turned out delicious! I'd definitely use this recipe, both on venison and any other kind of roast!

Super easy--give it a try!

Venison Roast-Adapted from AllRecipes.com
Total Time: 6 Hours
Serves 6

• 3 pound boneless venison roast (or beef or pork would probably work too)
• 1 large onion, sliced
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tablespoon garlic salt
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1 ounce package dry onion soup mix
• 1 can cream of mushroom soup

Place roast in 4-5 quart slow cooker and put ingredients from onion to black pepper on top. 

In a small bowl, mix soup mix and soup together until blended. Pour over roast and other ingredients  Cook on low for about 6 hours or until meat is cooked through to desired doneness.

Apple Dijon Pork Roast

This is probably one of the easiest pot roast recipes I've ever made, plus it has an interesting flavor to it! It is truthfully cheap, especially if you pay attention to when pork roast is on sale. Everything else I bought at Aldi [which, side note, is my new favorite grocery store]. If you're new to the crockpot-this is super easy to make so try it-I promise you can't screw it up! We gave this a 5/5! Adapted from the $5 Dinner Mom Cookbook.

Apple Dijon Pork Roast
Total Time: 8 1/2 hours
Serves 4

• 2 1/2 pound pork shoulder roast
• 1/2 cup applesauce
• 1/4 cup apple juice
• 1/4 cup Dijon mustard

Place the roast in a slow cooker with 1/2 cup of water.

In a small bowl, whisk together the applesauce, apple juice and Dijon mustard. Pour over the roast. Set the slow cooker on low and cook the roast for 8 hours, or until the roast is tender.