Beer Braised Pot Roast/Wilted Greens/and Caramelized Onions

Yummy Yummy Yummy!!!

Beer braised pot roast..so very simple!  Brown your pot roast, any kind you would like, but I prefer one with some marbling to it, and by that I mean FAT!  Makes for a better meat, and it falls apart in the beer.  After browning your roast, make sure you season it up a LOT...beef has a tendency to not pick up a lot of flavor.  Then all I do is roughly cut up an onion and throw it on in there with that meat and let them cook up together like an old married couple!  Long and slow!!!  Until it all falls apart...maybe 3-4 hours depending on the size of your roast!

Now comes my personal favorite, the caramelized onions....thank goodness for spell check or you would have had something more than caramelized onions!!  Just cut up some sweet onions very thin, and throw them in some butter and olive oil (or in Rachel's terms EVOO) and let those guys just cook and cook and cook until they are beautifully browned and ready to eat!  I usually add some parsley since I love the freshness of it all, but if you have an aversion to parsley then leave it out, all up to you!  Remember this is all about TRY it out and see what happens! 

Not a very good picture of my onions, but when all you have is steam coming up from that hot pan, then what can you expect???

My next step is so simple it's almost ridiculous....buy some greens, like spring greens, or kale, or baby spinach or just something all mixed up and through it on your plate...this is where the wilting comes in...the hot juices and the hot meat and the hot onions WILT those greens and waaa-laaa you've got something that sounds so gourmet your friends will envy you....WILTED GREENS!!!  Sounds impressive right?  It isn't  :)

There they are....hard right?

Now put it all together on a plate, and serve this up with a great wine, and you've got what most people think you slaved over for hours and hours...make sure to spray your face with some water, and heat it up over the steam so it looks like you've worked your buns off to do this for them....

I usually pair it up with some veggies...in this case, some steamed corn and edamame all dancing together in one big pot.

Isn't that pretty?  and OMG is it yummy....lip smackin' good!!!  Don't forget the sweat, you really don't want anyone to know that you were doing your nails all while this was cooking!

Have fun and remember DO NOT FEAR THE FOOD!