Winter Food

Now is the time for the good hot comfort food.  Winter is the best time for the long, slow cooked dinners.  Now being a newlywed we are still figuring out our dinner planning and what not.  But the other Sunday, the snowy one, I planned on trying to make roast for the first time.

A little background.  I don't really cook and my mother doesn't cook.  We rely on my dad and his wonderful cooking.  So I told him I wanted to try and make a roast.  Being my dad, he went to the grocery store and bought me the ingredients.  These are for the first timer.  

What did he get?

1 roast

2 cans of potatoes

1 onion

and a bag of baby carrots

 

What would he normally get?

1 roast

regular potatoes and cut them up to go in

1 onion

and regular carrots to cut up and throw in

Like I said I am new at this.

 So I received directions from him in the creation of our meal.

Put roast in the roaster, fat side up!

Cut up onion and throw into roaster

Open and drain cans of potatoes and put into roaster

Put half of bag of baby carrots

sprinkle salt and paper

and desired seasoning

add water until items are covered.

Put the lid on and put into the oven at 300 for about 2 1/2 hours.  Let sit for 15 minutes and slice and serve.

Now my dad usually makes the gravy to go with it, but I cheated with the brown beef gravy.  I will get the hang of it one day.

I think I nailed it for my first attempt at making roast.  And it was a hit!

Now, I don't want you to think I can't make dinner or anything.  I promise I can, but for first time things I get nervous about how they are going to turn out.  And no matter what I do, I always think my dad's tastes better.

Do you have a go to hot dinner to make during the winter?