Artful Beauty in Winter Comfort Food - Pot Roast with character!

Beef pot roast ready to simmer in our dutch oven on top of the wood stove. 

Simple & easy to make!

Toss a roast into a pot that is oven-safe.

I added some of our farm-grown vegetables, pulled from the root cellar (cool temp basement): rutabaga, potato, onion, garlic, and baby carrots which I left whole for the beauty of it! Water added until it reached the bottom of the top layer of vegetables. Salt & pepper are the only seasonings - this will be so delicious!

 I will let it simmer on top of our wood stove for several hours (you can use your stovetop or a hot oven, or even a crockpot). All the flavors will blend together, the veggies will be so tender they'll melt in your mouth, and the beef roast makes it all mouthwatering!

Winter comfort food at it's best!

Recipe: Winter roast with storage vegetables

Roast ready to put on top of the woodstove to simmer for a few hours! Oh wow, all these delicious vegetables were grown here on our farm, I just pulled them out of our root cellar. Yum!

-1 grass fed beef roast
-3 cups chicken or beef stock
-5 potatoes
-2 rutabaga
-5 carrots
-1 yellow onion
-1 red onion
-a few garlic cloves
-salt & pepper

You can simmer in a crockpot, on your stovetop, or even a woodstove!

Enjoy!

A surprise waiting at the farm... vegetables that survived winter!

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When I first arrived at the farm plot a week or two after the snow had finally melted, I was shocked to see that the fall vegetables I hadn't picked had survived winter!

I was staring at several rows of living turnips, rutabaga, kale, spinach, green onions, even some lettuce!  I'm positive that had the carrots been left, they too would have survived.

Amazing!  The farmer from whom I rent the land was surprised as well.  He couldn't remember it happening before.

I have a theory.  Our first significant snowfall came around Christmas.  We had many snowfalls after that, but I'm thinking that because we never had a thaw - yep, we had thick snow covering the ground all winter long (usually we have at least one warm front push through in the winter, that gives us a few days above freezing)... that snow acted like a blanket, keeping the frost-hardy vegetables insulated from the sub-zero temperatures. 

Whatever the reason, it rocks.  I'll be able to take fresh turnips, kale, and more to the first farmers market the first week of May!  When most gardeners in our area will only have asparagus, rhubarb, and maybe a couple of cold-hardy vegetables if they really pushed it, I'll have a variety of vegetables.  Yeah! 

It doesn't take much to amuse me.  :-)

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