Pot Roast

When is a Beef Stew a Boeuf Bourguignon or Pot Roast?  A Beef Stew is cooked with the meat cut in chunks, a Boeuf Bourguignon is a stew that includes Red Wine, and a Pot Roast is cooked the same as Stew but the meat is cooked in one piece.  I love them all and cooked this Pot Roast in a Crock Pot and it is a combination of all 3 mentioned above.  I seasoned the Chuck Roast the same as I would a steak with coarse Kosher Salt, fresh Ground Black Pepper, and Garlic Granules before dredging in flour and seared it on all sides.  The meat went into the pot first then the potatoes, carrots, onion, five gloves of garlic (crushed), and celery.  One cup of Red Wine and 3 cups of Beef Broth were added and cooked on low setting for 6 hours or until done.  I suggest removing the vegetables when they are cooked just right and continue cooking the meat until it is very tender if you like the meat that way.  I don't thicken the broth as some suggest doing, as it is just so good I wouldn't do anything to change it.

German Potato Salad

INGREDIENTS:

4 med size red potatoes (2 lbs)

1 hard boiled egg
4 slices thick Wrights Bacon
1 med onion, chopped (1/2 c)
1 tbs all flour
1 tbs sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp celery seed
2/3 cup water
1/4 cup white vinegar

Scrub potatoes well and boil 20 - 25 min till a tender but not falling apart.  Add egg to the same pot with the potatoes during the last 10 min.  Drain and when cool enough to handle and slice potatoes 1/4 in thick.  

While potatoes cook fry bacon till crisp and remove to paper towels reserving 1 - 2 tbs of drippings and cook onions till translucent but not brown.

Combine flour, sugar, salt, celery seed and stir into the bacon dripping  to make a paste.  Add water and vinegar, simmer and stir until slightly thickened, add and toss potatoes.  Remove to a serving bowl and and garnish with chopped boiled egg to serve. 

I can't think of anything this German Potato Salad wouldn't go with as well as any traditional Potato Salad and it sure is good.  A German friend of my Dad's invited me to a cookout many years ago and it was my first time to ever try it and I fell in love with it.  They served a wonderful Cucumber Salad as well that day and the two dishes complimented each other very well.