Grandma Charlotte's Pot Roast

(by Charlotte Adamis)

(My mother tells me she doesn’t really have a recipe for her pot roast. She’s always made it just the way her mother made it—my namesake, Grandma Charlotte.)

Preheat oven to 350 F.

Salt and pepper a bottom round roast.

Brown the roast in some oil* in a big, heavy, deep casserole on top of the stove.

Take the roast out of the pot and set it aside.

Brown sliced onions and chopped carrots, and add a can of tomatoes.

Put the roast back in the pot, cover, and put it in the heated oven.

Turn the roast every half hour until it’s tender (about 3 hours).

Take the roast out, let it cool, and slice.

Mash the vegetables to make a sauce, and reheat the sliced meat and sauce together when ready to serve.­­­­

(*Grandma Charlotte used the fat she removed from the previous roast and saved it in the refrigerator to brown the next one.)

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