recipe: pork roast slow cooker

[ladyjanelly]

My slow-cooker is huge. Adjust accordingly.

5lb pork roast
1/2 red onion, sliced
5 sticks celery, sliced
1 lb green beans, broken bite-size
2 handfuls mushrooms, sliced
1 cup water
1 cube veggie bulion
1 Granny Smith apple, cored and sliced fine

1/8 tsp each of
salt
pepper
rosemary
parsley
sage

put pork in pot and add the rest on top of it. Save the apple for last and put that on the very top.
Cook 5 hrs.

OMG tender. I never had a taste for pork before but this was amazing.

Comments

[billythecad.livejournal.com]

Your recipe for a roast is almost identical to the one I've been using for years, only you add an apple. I've got to try that. When you say to put it on last, about how long before you turn off the heat?

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

It goes in at the same time as everything else, just on top so the flavors leech down through everything. Or something. It may have just been pretty that it had the apple there. :)

I like doing the roast sort of low-carb. It came out tasty.

My hardest problem when I put recipes on LJ is translating "Um, this much?" into measurements. :)

I'm a very instinctive cook. I went through the spice cabinet smelling stuff and decided what to put in.

[billythecad.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I re-read that and I was kinda, "D'oh! You put everything in *at once*!" In the past when I've made roasts I use things like potatoes (which I suppose would ruin the low-cardness (I guess it's a word?) of it all...) and cabbage where if you cook them for too long they'll end up overcooked and mushy, so you stagger what you put in.

As far as spices go I'm a bit of a coward unless a recipe specifically tells me to use them; I stick with salt, pepper, garlic, and, if I'm feeling brave, a bay leaf.

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

It's all good. :)

Yeah, mush is no good. I had squash to add at the end but didn't have the room to put it in.

I'm bad at timing this cooker thing. I always start it at 3-4 in the afternoon. Doh.

Try these spices. mmmmm, gooood.

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

The apple does mush to nothing, but it flavors everything else.