Crockpot Pork Roast Recipe

We found a double pack pork picnic roast on sale at Winco this week. I have never cooked a picnic roast before, but I figured it couldn't be much different than a regular roast, so I picked it up and decided to experiment. The recipe turned out great and it's officially my first recipe of the new year.

Ingredients

pork picnic roast (you can substitute any pork roast. This one was just under 4lbs)

1 bell pepper sliced into strips

1 orange or 2 small mandarins/tangerines

1 apple peeled, cored and sliced (I prefer granny smith or golden delicious)

1 cup broth (I used chicken because that's what we had, but beef would be delicious)

2 cloves garlic

pepper

Directions

1. Season pork roast with pepper to taste

2. Slice a hole into roast and stuff with garlic clove. Repeat for each clove you're using.



3. Slice end off citrus fruit and squeeze juice over the roast
4. Place into crockpot

5. Add sliced apples and bell peppers

6. Add broth 

 

7. Cover and cooked on low for 6-7 hours depending on size of roast



8. After removing roast and bell peppers from crock pot, whisk broth and apples with cornstarch 
    (you can use flour instead) to thicken and create a gravy. The apples will mash into the gravy. 

9. Slice roast, cover with gravy and serve with cooked peppers.
 

Turkey Time

In November we bought 3 turkeys when the grocery store had the 55 cents per pound special. We cooked one in November and froze 2.

I'm cooking one today. 18.17 pounds of deliciousness is in the oven.

When Robert gets home, we will break it down and divide it into meals.

The breasts will be frozen for future dinners (2 meals)

The rest of the meat will be tonight's dinner, lunch meat for the rest of the week, and enchiladas on Friday (shhh! The enchiladas are a surprise for Robert).

The scraps will be saved for soup (unknown number of meals)

Stay tuned for pictures and recipes.