Crock Pot Pot Roast-Yum!

I know I've said it before, but I love a recipe that cooks while I'm at work. I love coming home to dinner ready! I'll prep several meals on Sundays, but this is one meal I can cook during the week because I'm not doing much but plugging in the Crock Pot!

This recipe is super easy and fast. It calls for a McCormick Slow Cooker packet found in the seasoning aisle (or whatever aisle they sell the packet seasoning).

Ingredients:

• 1 2-3 pound rump roast
• 1 packet of McCormick's Slow Cooker Pot Roast seasoning
• several potatoes (we used red potatoes because they're slightly better for you)
• baby carrots
• 1 onion thickly sliced

Directions:

Place roast in crock pot. Make marinade according to directions on package. Toss in halved potatoes, baby carrots, and onion. Pour marinade over meat and veggies. Close lid and cook on low for 8 hours or high for 4 hours. Remove roast from crock pot and slice into smaller sections to serve.

Enjoy!

Crock-Pot Brisket

I'm falling in love with my Crock Pot. It's spent too much time unused and I'm finding new ways to fix this. My mother used our Crock Pot at LEAST once a week while I was growing up. There is nothing like setting a whole meal up in a pot before you leave for work and opening the door when you come home to the most incredible smell. I know that if I plan on being a working mom one day, I will learn to love it as much as my mom did raising me. Seriously, if I can cook a meal while at work AND set my washer to start a load an hour before I come home I can do ANYTHING! :)

My mother in law makes her brisket this way when they don't smoke it outside on the grill. She brought this over for Christmas and it was delicious! This recipe is EASY! Seriously, here are the ingredients:

• 1 brisket (your choice of cut and size)
• 1 package of McCormick Grill Mates Seasoning in Mesquite flavor (or more if brisket is larger than 2 pounds)
• water
• oil as per package directions

Directions:

Place brisket in Crock Pot. In separate bowl, mix together seasoning packet as per directions. Each package is enough to work with 2 pounds of meat so you may need multiple packages. Pour marinade over brisket. Add about an inch of water to the Crock Pot and place lid on pot. Set to "low" and go to work doing what you do. I set it at 6:45 this morning and came in at 4 pm to a perfect brisket.

After removing from Crock Pot, shred as so:

We like to mix our favorite BBQ sauce with the shredded meat and heat up over stove. Then we serve on top of a baked potato or mashed potatoes. Delicious! The two pound brisket makes enough for about 5 meals if you pile the meat over potatoes.

If you make it, let me know what you think! We're trying a few more new recipes over the next week so I'll post those if they turn out to be keepers!