Dorothy’s Final Exam Pot Roast

            Yesterday my Journalism professor informed our class that we no longer needed to write a blog every day.  We have one more class for this semester, turn in our take-home final and we are done.  I am so ready to say good-bye to this semester.  Honestly, I really need to take a break for a couple of weeks and get my head on straight.  I would love to just leisurely read a book, just because I want to and not because I will have to write a paper or take a test.  I have four English classes this semester and I have four for the next.  Sometimes I think I am really crazy with all the writing and reading.  According to my husband Brian, all of this paper writing is paying off and I am getting much better.  As much as I love being in school, there is a part of me crying for some form of life where I can relax and just write for the sake of writing.  Oh don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed my non-fiction writing workshop this semester.  It is impossible to not build quite a tight bond with the other students, so many of our essays contained personal information which opened a window into each other’s lives.  I’ve been plotting in my mind as to how I would start a writers club and meet once a month, or maybe twice, just to be able to share stories with friends.  Normally I have a good intention to do something like this and it never blossoms.  As for my blog, it has been fun, but I do not know if I will continue to write every day about the food that I cook for meals.  I hate measuring when cooking and would really rather go back to my normal style of preparing dinner.  From now on this blog will only have a new recipe if I desire to measure and cook.

            Dorothy’s Final Exam Pot Roast

            Put on the bottom of a crock pot: six carrots cut into two inch pieces, cut two apples into eight slices, quarter on onion, and one rutabaga.  Place pot roast on top of veggies.  Fill crock pot halfway with water.  Add: one lg. beef bouillon cube, about 12 shakes of Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper, two sprigs of marjoram, and one package of dry onion soup mix.  Cook on crock pot until meat is tender, about 8 hours. 

            Gravy

            In a pan sauté diced onions, garlic and mushrooms.  Add: flour, paprika, and salt and brown.  Add: almost all of the water liquid from the crock pot and stir until liquid thickens. Add: Marjoram and more salt and pepper if needed.  Serve over meat and potatoes.