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
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01/14/2012
Mmm - I think these potatoes would be just delicious with all the flavor they soak up from the roast and other ingredients. Plus, you don't have a separate pan to wash, which can be a big consideration. I'll have to try this technique the next time I make pot roast with mash potatoes. I wonder how it would be to roast potatoes with a chicken and then make mashes....hmm.
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