Sunday Pot Roast
From Nana Ruth's recipe card
- chuck roast
- small potatoes, halved
- carrots, in thick pieces
- beef stock
- tomato paste
3 hr timer
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The Alvarez Kitchen
48 recipes
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Contributed by Marisol
From Nana Ruth's recipe card
Uncle Dev's version, 1994
Good at the part where you actually cook.
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The Alvarez Kitchen
48 recipes
Three steps, done once, by one person.
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Worth knowing: setup is aimed at the family's resident tech person. It means following a written guide, pasting in a setup file and uploading some files. After that, everyone else just visits a web page.
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