Left-over chuck roast

The chuck roast that I made the other night was good. However, there was plenty left over. To use it, I thinly sliced the roast and toasted a piece of bread.

With a little bit of barbecue sauce it made a wonderful open-faced sandwich.

Grilled chuck roast and potatoes

Chuck roast can be tricky to decide how to prepare. I have several in the deep freezer and I will try to do significantly different method to prepare them. You are always safe cooking it in a crock pot overnight and dumping a coke and a bottle of barbecue sauce over it...that works well.

However, I wanted to try a completely grilled method. I marinaded the roast in a mixture of beer, salt, pepper, and onion powder for about three hours. I wrapped the roast in foil and cooked for three hours on indirect heat. For the last twenty minutes or so I removed the foil and cooked closer to the coals (but still not on direct heat). All in all it turned out well.

The potatoes were wrapped in foil and were cooked in the coals. I put them in and ran an errand away from the house and 45 minutes later they were perfect.

Coming tomorrow...using leftover chuck roast.

College Memories

Earlier this week I decided to cook a chuck roast in a crock pot to make barbecue. I seared it on the grill for about a minute on each side. Then put in the crock pot with a bottle of barbecue sauce. If I was feeling industrious I would have made my own sauce but store bought sauce was good enough for me.

I let it cook all night on Wednesday and had it Thursday for lunch. On Friday I had memories of going to Sonnys. It was a hole in the wall type place. In fact, in the middle of the floor there was literally a hole to the dirt underneath. Sonnys was only open on Friday and Saturday so Friday after class was an unofficial assembly place for my fraternity and many others. There were no menus and I don't remember anyone ordering anything except the barbecue plate. Two pieces of white bread and sweet tea with a heaping pile of barbecue. Delicious.