Roast Beef Dinner

Here is our Roast Beef Dinner that we had tonight and how it was done:

Roast Beef:

Place a 3 to 4 pound roast beef into a crock pot and salt and pepper both sides.  Poor about 1 to 1 1/2 cups beef broth over the meat and slice 1/2 onion and place on top, then cover.  Turn crock pot on to low and let it cook for approximately 6 hours or until the meat falls apart when you pull on it with tongs.

Mashed Potatoes:

Mostly peel (leave some of the skin on) 3 medium/large potatoes and then cut.  Put into a sauce pan with water and let boil until potatoes are done (soft when you poke with a fork).  Poor in about 1/4 to 1/3 cup milk, about 3 tablespoons butter, and 1/2 cup shredded cheese (I used Colby Jack).  Mash until your desired consistency (I like it not to be completely whipped, but with some chunks of potatoes not completely mashed).

Biscuits:

I got this recipe from allrecipes.com and the biscuits were really good!  It includes:

-  2 cups all-purpose flour

-  1 tablespoon baking powder

- 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar

-  2 teaspoons white sugar

-  1/4 teaspoon salt

-  1/2 cup melted butter

-  1 cup milk

Place all dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, cream of tartar, salt, and sugar) into a medium size bowl and mix.  Stir in melted butter and milk until batter forms.  Drop batter on a lightly sprayed cookie sheet by the tablespoon (makes about 12 biscuits) and cook into your preheated oven (at 450 degrees) for approximately 10 minutes....until light brown.

Beef Gravy:

Spoon out about 1/2 cup of the drippings from the crock pot and put into a saucepan over low heat.  Mix in all purpose flour (approximately 2 to 3 tablespoons) until thickened.  Remove from heat and spoon over meat and/or potatoes.

Serve dinner to the whole family warm....of course.  We had this tonight, a perfect fall day, and the whole family had seconds. I am not one for a roast dinner, but this was yummy good!