Simple Pot Roast and Mashed Potatoes

Ingredients:

• 1 large 3 lb. roast
• 4 large Idaho or 10 baby Yukon Gold potatoes
• 1 packet powdered French Onion soup mix
• water to cover roast and potatoes
• 4 oz. sliced button mushrooms
• 1 tsp. rosemary
• 1 tsp. thyme
• cornstarch
• 2 Tbsp. butter
• chicken broth
• salt
• pepper

Directions:

Place roast in crock-pot, arrange potatoes around roast and top with mushrooms.

Mix onion soup with 1 cup water and pour over roast. Add more water until roast and potatoes are covered. Add thyme and rosemary. Cook on low 7 hours or until roast is tender. Pull potatoes out and place in a bowl.

Mash potatoes with butter and chicken broth, adding broth until potatoes are the consistency you prefer. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Pour onion soup into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Add cornstarch and thicken into a nice mushroom gravy. Serve meal with your favorite veggie.

By Shannon from Lakewood, OH