Move Over Paula Dean, Dian is cooking again!!!

Yep, I did it again this Sunday. I out did myself again. Today I made pot roast in the crock pot. OMG it was sooooooo goooooooood. I took a small chuck roast about 3 lbs., got my crock pot out, turned it on to high, sprayed it really good with oil, cut up 5 potatoes and one large onion. I put several pieces of potato on the bottom,added about 1 cup water, then added the roast and one package of Lipton onion, mushroom dry soup mix, a little garlic salt and pepper then put the rest of the potatoes and onion pieces on top. Put the lid on and do not look again for several hours ( at least 5) . I use Pioneer brown gravy mix, it is the best to me. After about 5 - 6 hours you can check the roast , mine was perfectly done. I mixed up the Pioneer brown gravy mix following the package instructions, set to the side. I look to see how much Joice I had, I saw that I needed some more so I added some more water (about another 2 cups)
then poured in the gravy mix, recovered it and let it get really thick. Yummy!!!!!!The only thing I would have done different is I wished I had a dried bay leave to add to it, it makes it taste so good. Well while that was cooking this morning, I got to craving fresh squash, so Nana and I ventured across the zone to Mabank to the produce market. Omg I bough some of the best squash. So when we got home I cleaned the squash cut it up in pieces with a onion boiled it till it was tender, drained it added butter and cheese, yep cheese it was so good too. And Nana got some frozen light bread at the store yesterday, so we had fresh baked bread too. The only thing I do not have a a really good dessert, oh well, I will have a chocolate shake later. I don't know what the deal is, but I did enjoy cooking this meal. Maybe that was because i just put it in the crock pot and forgot about it. And it tastes so good to me, I know that has to do with not smoking any more. It is going on 3 months now. Hurray for me! And I do feel alot better yesterday and today than I did on Monday and Tuesday of last week.
I bought a brisket for the 4th of July, and we heard that Joe, Joe had never had fried squash, so we are going to fry some up for him. If anyone has any suggestions for the 4th meal let us know, right now we had brisket, fried squash, potato salad, fresh sliced tomatoes from the garden, and whatever anyone else would like, sliced onions, bread and whatever else. Now this if for the 5th of July the Saturday after the 4th. i told mom that we would need to fry up about a bushel of squash, because I know how everyone else likes it. Sure wish Josh Hollywood Clark and Angela were going to be here. Brad, Josh and Joe can sure put on a good fireworks display, only this time Joe, it is not inside of the garage. Our neighbor Jose is supposed to be having the big blowout on Friday the 4th of July at his house on the lake, so we can all watch the displays across the water. That will be another long weekend.
Later from the Zone................................