I got this pot roast recipe from my friend, the beautiful woman behind the camera at Sugar Photography, and as soon as Red Wine was mentioned as an ingredient…I was sold, of course! Plus the pot roast recipe was super simple, here is all I used:
Well, minus the broccoli, that was just a side. I did toy with the idea of putting the broccoli in the crockpot but decided it would probably get too soggy after a day in red wine.
My cousin Chase keeps cooking pot roast in his crockpot down in H-town, and he let me in on a little secret….you can buy potatoes in a can! Who knew! Definitely makes throwing ingredients in the crockpot in the am much easier. Chase also suggested that I get a Sirloin pot roast, but I couldn’t even find a regular pot roast without going to multiple grocery stores, so I had to settle for a chuck roast.
Here is the recipe: 
1 Cup any red wine, I used my left over BR Cohn wine I’d opened over the weekend, poured it in the cropckpot.
Next I salt & pepper both sides of the pot roast and put it in the crockpot.
Potatoes, this was a big pot roast so I did two cans.
Carrots, I just put as many as would fit
Lipton Soup mix, this sould be poured on top of everything, I however poured it in the wine, so luckily my sis could help me out and poured most of a 2nd pack on top.
Doesn’t it look pretty?
I let it all cook in there for about 9 hours, because that was as fast as I could get home. And let me just tell you….my house smelled AMAZING! The meat was so tender and delicious!
Though I do have to say, I wish I had found a less fatty meat. You can see in the pictures from before the pot roast was cooked how much fat there is. When I ate it I could pull it off, but the left overs…let’s just say that was a bit more than I could handle.
I brought it for lunch the next day to reheat and couldn’t quite get over how the liquid had coagulated. So for me this was definitely not a “leftovers” type meal. I’ll have to get a sirlion pot roast next time and see if the end result is the same.
To keep my mom happy and have a green vegetable, I steamed the broccoli.
I can’t wait to try this again and see how it turns out with a different cut of meat. Thanks for all the recipe suggestion Jenn & some Chase for all the helpful hints!
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