Pork [or beef] Pot Roast

Happy Monday! [Ha] But hey it's a holiday, so not the worst kind of Monday! So I found this recipe called "French Pot Roast" in the "Cook this, not that" cookbook. I changed it quite a bit, but this is the instruction that I used as a guide line.

I added:

-Carrots

-Baby purple potatoes [they are yummy and much better for you than regular potatoes. Also, the color is gorgeous!]

-Regular onions [I threw about half an onion in with the meat and carrots and everything else in the beginning]

-Instead of beef I used pork....because I had pork. And I love pork....

-About 1.5 TBS butter to the crock pot [I know it's bad.....but I had to]

-1 big clove of garlic minced

-I made the sauce into a gravy at the end (below)

-I forgot to add the peas....

-I didn't add mushrooms

 Lots of ingredients, but worth it!

 Browning the flour coated meat

 After adding everything and ready to cook!

 I chose to use fresh pearl onions instead of frozen. Instead of cooking them in the crock pot like the recipe says, I sauteed them in some butter, beef broth, red wine, and parsley/salt/pepper. And then added them to crock pot before serving.

 Another thing I did extra was take the juice out at the end of cooking and put it in a sauce pan. I added some corn starch mixed with water (to avoid lumps) and brought it to a boil, stirring until it thickened.

This was really really yummy. It reminds me alot of the Beef Bourginon that my mom and I made. We all loved it!