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A few years ago my granddaughters asked me to put together a cookbook of about 20 family favorite recipes and when I did the 20 pages looked rather skimpy so I added more, and more, and more till their binders held 60. Heavily embellished I gave them to the girls at Christmastime. Every Christmas since then I've added 60 more pages to their collections and have reached the 300 mark...and they're looking forward to getting even more. These are not random recipes, they're all tried and true. Anyway, when word got around it seems everybody and their second cousin wanted a cookbook so I began selling them to cover the cost of materials and now I'm passing them on to others as digital freebies, who like me, enjoy family, friends, cooking, and sharing. Print the pages to a standard letter size and save them in any old binder that blends with your kitchen. Please do print them for yourself and gift-giving to family and friends but please do not claim as your own as it wouldn't be fair to the designers I buy from or the wonderful talent that is freely given by bloggers. I'd love to hear from you and if you leave a comment on a post I will reply on the same. Please don't leave anything on the 4shared page, I seldom think to check those.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Pot Roast Made Easy

Sharing another of my recipes and when this is cooking the house smells like my grandmother's kitchen (back in the forties) and we can barely contain ourselves till dinner.  Grandma would be proud too cause I usually get three or four meals out of this recipe.  First as a pot roast, second as leftover chipped beef on toast with mashed and veggies, third as sandwiches with onions and cheese and last but not least, from that delicious broth left in the pan along with the bits and pieces of leftover meat stuck to the bottom of it the base for a yummy homemade soup...and not necessarily in that order.


Use your head, ladies, if you've a smaller roast and/or family then just use one jar of gravy and if you don't want to use gravy then use 2 beef bouillon cubes and 2 cups of water.  This is more a method than a fixed ingredients list.  This meat cooks up fork-tender and tastes like it was prepared in some French Bistro.  Ooh-la-la!  I could just have the broth and be happy with that.

I have three pages for you to choose from.  My recipe, a blank page if you want to add in youra and a companion sheet with room for three pics and a journaling space.  This sheet is going in my cookbook with snapshots of my GGS eating up all of Nana's pot roast.  Yum, yum, yummy!  Take what you want and leave the rest.

Thanks for stopping by, catch ya' later!


recipe: my own
scrap kit: "All Organic" - Kay Miller Designs
"Cows" - Laurie Furnell  - PCCrafter (website closed down)
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5 comments:

  1. Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Page 1 post on Apr. 20, 2011. Thanks again.

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  2. Thanks so much! I love love love your cows!!

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  3. LOL, not my cows, Laurie Furnell's. She's no longer associated with PCCrafter, check the sidebar if you'd like to see more of her work.

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  4. Every time I visit your blog, I am just amazed at how great your pages are. Thanks for sharing.

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  5. Thanks, Doris, I truly appreciate you leaving a kind word, it makes my whole day. People like you keep me going,thanks again.

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