Last night I decided it was time to cook up the 4 lb bone-in chuck roast I had been dethawing for my porchetta experiment but didn't have a big enough pot to cook it in or the time last weekend so I decided to do it pot roast style. The way the bone was, I could only fit it in my aluminum roaster and that just didn't seem right or worthy of such a beautiful piece of meat. I had dry aged it and rubbed it with herbed salt and wanted this to be tasty and simple and satisfying.
MyT Man said, well, I don't know why you don't just use the dutch oven I have out in the shop. It's full of scrap metal. WHAT???? We have a larger dutch oven that I didn't know about? Yes, apparently it doesn't have a lid. So we used a small lid and just let it settle naturally and worked perfect.
So I stuck the browned roast in with a handful of new red potatoes, carrots, celery and 2 bay leaves and a couple of cups of water and a glub of ACV. Put it on 225 for 4 hours. Took the drippings and mixed it with 3T butter mashed in with 3T flour for the gravy.
It was exactly what my body was craving. It was not my momma's dry old mealy pot roast for sure!
The biggest thing I have noticed in changing the way we eat is that neither of us is full or hungry. We are both satisfied. That is a whole other level of being!
Tanks, here's the detailed instructions but basically it's pork loin cooked by wrapping it in pork belly. The ultimate pig in a blanket of pig! I've got a crazy weekend so I've vowed I will make it the following weekend.
So basically its a roast wrapped in bacon and then cooked? Wow, sounds like something my Momma wold have made. She always put bacon over the top of her turkeys when cooking.