Pork Roast in a Pot

Brown the pork roast in the pot with a little olive oil and some chopped fresh garlic, salt and pepper to taste.

Cover with water, add, carrots, onions, dried mushrooms, cook it all day so that it's so tender it falls apart. Make sure you keep enough water in the pot. Later on add some potatoes, and give them time to cook.


So here's what it all looks like in the pot when it's done cooking

Take most everything out of the pot, but leave a little bit of everything in the pot for making the gravy.


I use a soup ladle to scoop a bowl of the liquid out of the pot, and mix my flour into that using a pampered chef gravy whisk that is awesome, then I take a potato masher to all the stuff left in the pot, and then stir my flour mixture back into the pot. So the gravy comes out looking like this with little bits of the whole thing in it....
for this meal I also made some tricolor couscous

and stir fried some onions, greens, and savoy

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Chicken skillet

nothing like making it all up as you go along

ingredients:

1 large boneless skinless chicken breast

1 carrot, long angled slices cut in half

1 garlic clove, chopped small

1 tbsp olive oil

2 sm to med green onions chopped

1 tbsp chopped fresh chives

1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley

1 large tbsp veg. dip & soup mix

1/2 c rice

~1 tsp cajun spice blend or whatever u prefer

1 c water

salt & pepper to taste

heat oil & garlic, med to med high - cut chicken into chunks, add to skillet, add cajun spice, salt & pepper to taste - once chicken is no longer pink add carrots, cook and stir for another minute or 2, then add the rice and the dip mix, stir well until rice is coated well, add water - bring skillet to a boil, reduce heat to low - med low - cover & cook for 20 - 25 min

stir in chopped onion, chives, & parsley before serving