Fireman Bobs Crock Pot Comfort Food Beef Surprise Recipes

FIREMAN BOB'S FIRED UP POT ROAST MY WAY

Steps:

• 1. Coat a 7-quart slow cooker or Large Dutch Oven with Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Make 1/2 inch slits about 1 inch deep in the roast with a knife, " Hide " the garlic cloves inside these slits.
• 2. Place roast in slow cooker.
• 3. Arrange mushrooms, potatoes, jalapeno pepper, and carrots around beef. Place the fire roasted tomatoes over beef and vegetables. Pour beef broth in.
• 4. Cover, cook on Low heat setting 6 to 8 hours at 195 degrees or until beef is tender.
• 5. Serve beef and vegetables with sauce from slow cooker. Garnish with parsley. Enjoy!

FIREMAN BOB'S SCOTTISH STEW MY WAY...

Steps:

• Ask your meat man to cut up beef for stew. ( I use a good Flank Steak, cooking time allows to get tender. ) Roll pieces of stew meat and rib eye in the seasoned flour. Place Floured meat in a hot Skillet with the butter and allow to brown.
• Add the chopped onion, carrots, red pepper flakes, and turnips. Add the Worcestershire sauce, Cook on medium until softened. Place the browned meat into a Large Dutch Oven, add the vegetables and cook till they are softened.
• Dissolve beef bouillon cubes in water. Pour the bouillon/water mixture in with the stew/ stew. Add Mushrooms to Dutch Oven. Season with salt and pepper.
• Slow cook in oven at 295 degrees, and until beef is tender for 2 to 3 hours. Stir every 20 to 30 minutes and keep enough water to keep the gravy to your liking.
• Serve with a Potato Bread. Garnish with srings of rosemary. Enjoy !!!

FIREMAN BOB'S NOODLES AND SHORT RIBS SOUP MY WAY..

Steps:

• 1. Note: This recipe brings beef and noodles together in a soup and begins by cooking beef short ribs until the meat falls off the bone, then adding homemade egg noodles to the pot to make soup. Have your Butcher cut the short ribs down to about 2 inches long if needed.
• 2. Preheat oven to 275 degrees. Chop the onion, celery, carrots, and garlic, and set aside. Generously season the beef short ribs with salt and pepper. In a large Dutch oven, brown the beef on all sides over high heat in a small amount of oil. Remove beef from pot and set aside.
• 3. Now add the carrots, celery, onions and garlic and simmer in the beef drippings till almost browned. Add the grape juice and use a wooden spoon to loosen all the " tid bits " from the bottom of the pan. Add the tomatoes, bay leaves and the browned beef.
• 4. Add the stock, and cider making sure the liquid covers the meat, add more beef stock until the ribs are covered by an inch. Bring to a boil, then cover and transfer to the oven. Allow the beef to cook untouched for 5 hours.
• 5. Remove pot from oven and carefully remove the beef ribs from the liquid. Remove the meat from the bones and gently pull the meat into bite-sized pieces. Also, " DIG " out the bone marrow from inside the bones and add with the meat. Set aside.
• 6. Preparing the Noodles
• 7. In a large bowl, stir together the flour, salt, pepper, and fennel. Add the beaten eggs, milk, and butter. Knead dough until smooth, about 5 minutes. Let rest in a covered bowl for 10 minutes. On a floured surface, roll out to 1/4 inch thickness. Cut into desired length. Allow to air dry 20 minutes before cooking.
• 8. Add the noodles to the liquid and simmer over a medium heat for about 6 to 8 minutes or until the noodles are tender. Turn off heat.
• 9. Add the beef and stir until the meat is heated through. Season to taste with salt and black pepper. Top off each bowl with the green onions. Serve hot with a good crusty bread.
• 10. ENJOY !!!

FIREMAN BOB'S PIGS IN A BLANKET MY WAY...

Steps:

• 1. Begin by removing the core from the cabbage heads, cut heads in half, place cabbage in a LARGE stock pot and simmer on low heat till cabbage becomes par-boiled and pliable. DO NOT OVER COOK the cabbage. Remove from water and set aside.
• 2. In a LAGRE Dutch Oven, place ground beef, ground pork, onions, paprika, red pepper flakes, 2 beef bouillon cubes, celery powder, salt, black pepper, and parsley, sauté till meat is browned and onions are translucent. When meat is browned, pour 1 cup tomato juice and all the cooked rice into mixture. Take half of a bag of the sour kraut and add to the meat mixture.
• 3. Allow entire mixture to reduce. Remove from the heat and allow to cool. Once reduced, and cooled, add 8 ounces of the cream cheese and combine to stiffen the mixture.
• 4. At this point, You want the mixture to be a thick consistency mixture in order to place in the cabbage.
• 5. Begin assembling the " Pigs " by placing 1 to 2 tablespoons of mixture on a cabbage leaf and rolling and folding the meat inside and, if needed, push a toothpick through to hold closed.
• 6. Once You have all the meat mixture in cabbage leaves and rolled, set aside.
• 7. Place the rest of the sour kraut and remaining cream cheese in a bowl and combine thoroughly. Take your LARGE Dutch Oven and place enough sour kraut on the bottom to give a thin layer for the " Pigs " as a " nesting " bed. Place the " Pigs " on top of the sour kraut " bed " one layer deep at a time, add more sour kraut/cream cheese mixture on top of each layer,. Place the diced tomatoes on each layer as You " build ", continue to layer in the Dutch Oven till You have all the " Pigs " placed.
• 8. If You haven't already done so, pour the rest of the tomato juice in the Dutch Oven, and add enough water to cover entire contents with 1 inch above the last layer of " Pigs " !!
• 9. Cover the Dutch Oven, place in the oven and cook for 3 hours at 350 degrees. Serve with a nice Salad and your favorite Crusty Bread. ENJOY !!!