Granny makes a tasty beef roast and she uses the easiest recipe. I’m not sure where she found it, but she’s been making it for many years.
Beef roasts are so high today that it’s hard to find one you can afford, but if you catch a sale all you need to go along with the roast is a package of Lipton onion soup mix.
If you’d rather not use the packaged mix you can find copycat recipes online and make your own.
You can make the recipe in the oven, but we use a crockpot so that you can start it and forget it until you’re ready to eat.
Place roast in crockpot and sprinkle with soup mix. Cook for several hours on low until roast is done.
Potatoes, carrots, onions, and other vegetables can be added to the crockpot. I like to add them, then all I need is a cake of cornbread and I’ve got a dandy supper that was easy to whip up.
Last night’s video: New Tractor Already Put to Use, Spring Blooms, and Tipper Likes Manual Transmissions.
Tipper
Subscribe for FREE and get a daily dose of Appalachia in your inbox
My husband and I did catch roast on sale and bought 4. we have ate 2 of them and still have 2 in the freezer. This makes me want to fix another one. We love roast.
Tipper, my sweet mom used to prepare a beef roast just like Granny. It’s so delicious!
We are on high alert for Katie’s baby boy!!❤️
Praying for Granny and everyone in you family. Hiary
Now I gotta go to the store and search for a roast! Does granny put any water or beef stock in it? Or just the meat and soup mix?
Cindy-she doesn’t add any liquid but you could 🙂
Tipper,
This is the way my mom made her chuck roast also so good. Also, glad that Yall got a tractor, it will be a big help for Matt.
Hi Tipper, What cut of beef is best for cooking this in a crock pot? Thank you.
Marie-I really like a chuck roast, but I usually buy what’s on sale. Sometimes a london broil or sirloin roast 🙂
Omgosh Tipper, your husband sure made an impression on my husband…..my husband watched your video with me last night in bed, in the hotel, for a weekend getaway at French Lick IN. When driving home today we spotted a huge Kabota dealer, so we had to stop in. We ended up getting the same tractor, except our is the hydrostatic (even though they did have a manual like Matt’s on hand.) My husband has bn searching a tractor for about a year and just frustrated that the John Deers he thought wanted are so much higher and yet have plastic hoods…..so when we saw your video he started searching Kabota yet again, then seeing a huge dealer being right on our path, and the thought of it being a 40th wedding anniversary gift to ourselves (St Patrick’s Day was our anniversary) just seemed to make it meant to be…..it’s being delivered Saturday (he got a forklift with ours instead of a tiller.)
Lorie-that is great! I sure hope he likes it as much as Matt does 🙂
Given that y’all do so much on YouTube, I’m pretty sure this is redundant; but Matt should visit Tractor Time with Tim on yt. I don’t even own a tractor but enjoy his content a lot. He demonstrates a lot of attachments.
I like the onion soup mix on a roast, too. The drippings of the roast make wonderful gravy. Mama would cut the meat into pieces and put vegetable pieces and gravy over all, cover, and roast forever in the oven. It was delicious, too. We were able to get a John Deere tractor about three years ago. My husband had wanted one for years and it has been so useful. He has a tiller to do the garden and other attachments he has welded together himself. He is an amazing handy man. I told him he needed to paint all his accessories John Deere Greene. Latest project is a roller to use mostly to keep up our gravel road. Unfortunately, I cant get up on the tractor. I have a vivid memory of driving the tractor while my father & brothers pulled corn. I t aggravated me when they hollered “whoa”–kept telling them I wasn’t a mule.
Thanks for reminding me of a really easy way to cook a very tasty and tender beef roast. Blessings to all.
Nice Kubota! I have an older one that is same size. I haven’t had to use a wheel barrow in a while thanks to front end loader
I’ve done the same thing in one of those oven browning bags and a crockpot. Melts in your mouth.
My mother-in-law made the best pork roast. Hers included onions, carrots, and little potatoes. Makes my mouth water thinking about it.
I make my roast the exact same way. So easy and delicious. I don’t cook one often unless I can find one on sale. Unbelievable what they cost these days.
That’s one fine tractor Matt bought! Kubota is one of the best. I am so happy for him and all of you. It’ll be used for so many things, I’m sure y’all will wonder how you ever got along without it. Hope you make a video of him using it in the big garden and Tipper, I think you’ll be using it too. I can just see those grandsons riding with Matt. 🙂
Sounds easy and looks delicious!
Slow=roasting in the afternoon in the oven with potatoes, carrots, and celery and onions… made me come in occasionally just to “take a whiff.” And one of Mom’s homemade lemon pies. Don’t remember how she made them but do remember Mom “shaving the peel” to make “zest?” Oh my!
Enjoyed the video of your new tractor. We had one years ago, and they are great. We cleared off some land to plant a garden and used it to remove snow, of which we had a lot in northern Ohio. I have pics of the children riding the tractor with their dad and grandpa at different times. I have made pot roast (using chuck roast) in the oven but in the last few years I use the crockpot which is convenient as I leave it on while at church. It makes the meat so tender. I use the broth for gravy and make mashed potatoes, green beans, broccoli salad and cheese biscuits. Everyone loves it especially the grandchildren. We use any leftover meat for sandwiches and sometimes I make hash out of it. We don’t have it as often as we used to with prices being sky-high.
I have a unusual recipe from a pastor’s wife for her Sunday pot roast. Early in the morning she would heat the oven to 475-500˚. She’d put the 3 lb chuck roast in a graniteware covered roaster and put in the oven. After 30 minutes she’d turn off the oven but did not open the oven door. She’d leave that roast in there for 8 hours and when supper came round it was done.
We’ve had a Kubota for years and at our age I don’t think we could do much around the place without it. That bucket hauls a lot of heavy bags up the hill for us.
My mom always mixed the onion soup mix with a can of cream of mushroom soup and a soup can of water, and poured that over the roast. I do it in the crockpot first thing in the morning, and even with a frozen roast, it’s falling apart tender by the time I get home.
I buy my beef from Family Farm Beef Box in Nebraska. It’s “only” $200 for 30# but it tastes like beef used to taste and to me it’s worth it cause I don’t eat a lot of beef. You ain’t just whistling Dixie about beef costing an arm and a leg. Again it’s the perfect food and meets or exceeds EVERY human need of sustenance. Granny’s beef roast looks so good, I can practically taste it! Lipton onion mix ALSO goes great in sour cream for homemade dip or mixed in hamburger for a good burger. I once got some that had bugs in it and it was really gross! So look before you leap on that one! Lol If granny has made it tried and true many years with empty plates and full tummies- there’s the only sign or testimony needed for this time tried delish dish! I like to parboil my veggies before crocking them. A hard tater is like a bitter pill-who can stomach such a thing? I’m thinking about a pork roast bbq and homemade Cole slaw myself! It’s colder than a well digger’s wet behind in Bluefield, WV this am!!!! Brrrrrr…. Give granny and the little moms a big fat smooch and hug from their friend in WV. They will love it!!!! Lol
Being on a high protein diet, I shop from the reduced meat bins. Yesterday morning, I found a nice chuck roast and some short ribs, which I grabbed up, took home, and started cooking the chuck until it fell apart. That was my wonderful meal. Short ribs are in the freezer! I love a good beef roast though full price is out of the question. Mine was reduced by 50%!
Exactly how I grew up on pot roast and I do that same exact recipe to this day. An oldie but a goodie!
Good morning Tipper. The roast in the photo looks yummy and I am sure it’s delicious with onion soup mix. I was thinking of making one for Palm Sunday coming up and then a ham for Easter Sunday dinner. We haven’t had a roast in quite a while. You are right…the prices are awfully high. I just happen to have one in my freezer from where we shared a 1/4 beef with my son, and it needs cooked. Hubby and I enjoyed your video so much last evening. We have been pondering the purchase of a new tractor too. It was fun to see how excited you and Matt were. My hubby gets that excited about tractors…and power saws. . He’s definitely an outdoor man. My Easter Lillies finally bloomed yesterday, and they are just beautiful…but the nighttime temps are gonna be freezing for a few days, so I am sure they won’t be blooming long. It’s ok though…spring is on the way! I am so excited for Katie’s baby to arrive!
Brenda, I get more excited about tractors than cars. I dearly love tractors, the older they are the better I like them. My father in law had a hand cranked 1939 JD model A. I loved plowing with it. Now not many people would know how to crank it, it cranked by turning the flywheel and opening a petcock on each cylinder to let some compression off the cylinder, once cranked you would close the petcocks. Don’t get me started on tractors!
Randy- My hubby feels the same way as you about tractors. He has his grandpap’s 1942 Massey-Harris Pony with plows and disks. He worked a long time to completely repair and repaint it. He rode on it with this grandpap while plowing their huge family gardens when he was a small boy and he used it to plow the gardens himself as he got older—and even to plow a garden for my dad when he was “courting” me. It has lots of sweet memories attached.
Brenda, I have my Daddy’s 1947 BF Avery model A tractor. It has not been restored. He would sit me between his legs and I would ride for hours like that with him. Even when I was still in diapers, I have been told I would cry anytime I heard the tractor until he would ride me around the yard. I know exactly what the Massey-Harris Pony is. I have a friend that has the larger Massey 44. I would also go and help my father in law plow his large corn field with the Jd I mentioned when I was courting my wife. I loved driving that tractor and listening to those 2 cylinders “talk to me” when it got down to pulling hard.
I had the year wrong. His Massey-Harris is a 1949.
My family has used the same pot roast recipe as Granny since I can remember. I have used a crockpot or a roasting pan in a low oven. It is a no fail recipe! Prayers of prosperity for you all!
That recipe is an old American standby. I have three variations I’ve used through the years. Next time, add a can of mushroom soup and bit of sliced garlic. The “gravy” is to die for… especially over mashed potatoes. I always use a chuck roast.
I second the mixing with mushroom soup! This is how my grandmother does her Christmas roast every year.
Sometimes we add a sprig or two of fresh rosemary. Doesn’t overwhelm the roast, just adds something. Merry Christmas!
Made me hungry!!
I made the same roast yesterday! It was cold and we were all sick so it was a great day for it. I add a good amount of dry red wine to it.
So good!
I love making pot roast this way, and beef stew too, both in the crockpot, just set it and forget it! I usually serve mine with rice and green beans, yummy!! This used to be our go to Sunday dinner, but you’re right, with the price of beef these days, it’s more like once a month now. Thanks and have a great week!
Thanks for the recipe. Have a good week. We are all on high alert for Katie’s little boy!
My eyes got to bothering me, my last sentence should be a Granny 4 speed transmission has a very low geared first gear used for starting off with a heavy load and when driving without a heavy load you just started off in second gear.
I like the tractor, is it a Kubota or Coyote maybe spelled with a K? My tractors are 1953 Farmalls. My son bought a new 65hp JD a few years ago with a front end loader/bucket. Now I wonder how we we got along so many years without a front end loader. You will love the rototiller. If you remember a few years ago, JD’s advertising slogan was “nothing runs like a deer.” My friend would tease and add “or smells like a john.” I too love a manual transmission and would have one now but my knees would make it hard to use a clutch. I drove a manual transmission car when I took my test for my driver’s license at 15 years old, I had already been driving for several years on the back roads we lived on. How many remember in the past days when manual transmissions were referred to as three on the tree, four in the floor (teenage boys liked to add and a fifth under the seat) and the Granny four speeds in the heavier trucks. All the school buses back when I drove one at 16 years old had Granny 4 speed transmissions and manual steering -not power steering. For the younger generations, a Granny 4 is a transmission with a very low geared 1st gear used when starting off with a heavy load, when driving without a heavy load you juste off in second gear.
Randy-it is a Kubota 🙂
Tipper, around here Kubota is considered one of the best. Something very important to me is down the road 10 years from now will parts still be available? With Kubota the answer is yes.
I’m old enough to remember WWII and afterwards, when Japanese products were considered to be so inferior as to not be worth buying. In the decades since, they sent us Toyota, Honda, and Kubota along with countless other products that are among the best in the world and surpass many American made products.
Robert, I worked blue collar jobs at Michelin for 38 years. I remember back in the 80’s of going to a class about a new production procedure they wanted to start. I think the procedure was called statistical process control or something like that. It meant if your production process was under control it was not necessary to measure/check each item you made only once every ten or so.This was a procedure that an American had came up with after WWll. The American companies laughed at him, so he sold the technology to the Japanese. They had nothing to loose. I also remember when Japanese meant cheap/junk now it is top quality.