Super Duper Sunday Supper

There is nothing better to me than to walk into my house and smell the aroma of a good old fashion roast cooking in the slow cooker.  The smells usher me back to the late 70's.  I love serving my family in this way, bringing a good meal to the table surrounded by great conversation, followed by a friendly game of dominos. Sunday supper is my favorite meal of the week because I get to spend it with all of my family, everyone gathered at one table for a moment in time, sharing dreams, hopes, and plenty of laughter :)

I got this recipe on Pinterest the pinner said , "it was the best roast they had ever eaten," and I must agree. I will never make a roast any other way!!!!!!

Ingredients:

Serves: 6  Prep time: 20 minutes...Cook time: 8 hours  Level of difficulty...Silly Simple

Roast

1 stick of butter

1 package of Ranch salad dressing  ( I changed it up some and used spicy ranch package)

1 package of Au Jus Gravy

1 jar of pepperoncini peppers

1 Tablespoon steak seasoning

1 Tablespoon of Olive oil


The recipe did not say to brown roast first but I feel like you intensify the flavor if you brown your roast before adding it to your slow cooker with a little olive oil and a sprinkle of steak seasoning.

 Brown Roast

Place your roast in your slow cooker, sprinkle your ranch package over your roast, then sprinkle your Au Jus Gravy package over your roast, place a whole sick of butter on top of the roast. Place the pepperoncini peppers all around the roast place the lid on ....sit back and enjoy the fragrance as it feels your home with memories of a time long ago.

I made fingerling roasted potatoes and sugar snap peas to go along side of the roast. I didn't record the recipe of the sides. What I did is put the potatoes on a cookie sheet sprinkled with olive oil.  I grated 4 garlic gloves over the potatoes, salt, pepper, and sliced red onions. Bake at 400 for 25 to 30 minutes.  When the potatoes were almost done, about 10 minutes out I place some olive oil in a sauté pan along with the shavings of garlic then added the snap peas and some Tamari soy sauce.  I sauté them all together until tender :)  These sugar snap peas are my Dakota's favorite vegetable.

The piece of resistance of our Sunday supper was the Gratineed Pineapple


Serves:6  Prep time: 20 minutes  Cook time: 25 minutes  Level of difficulty: Moderate


Ingredients:

Pineapple with leaves in tact

1/2 cup shredded coconut

1/2 cup crushed gingersnaps

1/2 cup chopped macadamia nuts ( I used walnuts)

1/2 cup of sweetened condensed milk ( I used the left over to serve a long side of the desert)

2 Tablespoons of dark rum, or rum flavoring



Stir nuts, coconut, and crushed gingersnaps together in a bowl set aside

An easy way to crush your gingersnaps is put them in a plastic bag and proceed to hit them with a meat mallet. Just like this..

Whisk together the sweetened condensed milk and rum, set aside.  With a knife slice the pineapple in half.

Cut the cord from each pineapple half and save to use for a smoothie later.

Cut the flesh of the pineapple into chunks.

Place the pineapple on a lined cookie sheet.  Throw the pineapple chunks back onto the pineapple drizzle the pineapple chunks with the sweetened condensed milk mixture with half the mixture.  Now sprinkle the entire coconut mixture over the chunks, then finish off the sweetened condensed milk over the top of pineapple. Bake at 350 F. for 20 to 25 minutes until golden brown. Amazing!!!

We have a lot of fun on Sunday supper night.. Whitney thought she might adorn herself with a homemade domino nose ring.  Wade is not moved by her decision, he is in the zone.

Zoe wanted to be apart of our Domino game so she pulled up  chair and joined in on the fun :)  She took her glasses off for the photo :)

Bella, is Dakota's dog and she is the bell of the ball :)  That's Bella's baby on the floor nest to her.

Galatians 5:13, " You, my brothers, were called to be free.  But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love."