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. 

Homemade Dinner Rolls

I was so excited to try these dinner rolls. I'm so unbelievably happy I found this recipe and don't know that I'll ever use refrigerated biscuits again. I mean, just look at the picture! It looks just professionally made dinner rolls! They were absolutely fantastic and super easy to make. My favorite part is that these can be made up to  4 days in advance.

Update 12/1/2013

I made these for Thanksgiving and they were a hit again! I had trouble again with the batch on the bottom getting burnt, so just make sure you're watching them at about 10 minutes of cooking!

Homemade Dinner Rolls-adapted from The MotherHOOD
Total Time: 2 hours-4 days, depending on chill time
Makes 24 dinner rolls

• 1 cup warm water
• 2 packages active dry yeast (4 1/2 teaspoons)
• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 4-4 1/2 cups flour

Combine water an yeast in a large bowl. Let stand until foamy, about 5 minutes.

Stir in butter, sugar, eggs and salt until combined. Add in flour one cup at a time until too stiff to continue mixing. Cover and refrigerate 2 hours to up to 4 days!

Grease baking sheets. Make 24 small balls of the dough and place on the baking sheets. Place baking sheets in turned off oven for about an hour to let dough rise. Turn on oven to 375 degrees. Bake for about 15-20 minutes until rolls are golden brown.