Roast recipes, including spicy beef sandwiches

In some of our meat order* we get roast, and I have grown to love having them. There are so many great things to do with roast.

1. Throw roast in crock pot with fresh green beans, 3 or 4 cups of water, and Grandmothers Sunday Roast mix from Homemade Gourmet**

2. Throw roast in crock pot and cover with onion soup mix and 4 cups of water. If you have any potatoes or carrots, throw those in there too.

3. Roast recipe from the Gooseberry Patch Cookbook I got for Christmas (modified for the crock pot)
5 lb pot roast (ours is 3 lbs, and it will be fine, I'm sure)
EVOO (enough to sautee some veggies)
1 large onion
6-8 cloves of garlic
1 stalk of celery
1 tablespoon of rosemary
2 tablespoons of parsley
1 tablespoon of black pepper
1 tsp basil
2 cans of beef broth
2 cans of cream/mushroom soup
2 c. hearty burgandy wine (I might open some kind of red to throw in there, or I might not)
6 medium potatoes (but I'm going to use red potatoes)
8 carrots

Saute onions and celery, add to crock pot. Throw in the roast, and all the rest of the ingredients. Cook on low for 6-8 hours or overnight.

4. Spicy Beef Sandwiches from the Crock Pot recipe collection cookbook
1 boneless beef roast
12 oz. pepperoncini
14 1/2 oz. beef broth
12 oz. bottle of beer (we'll use Shiner Bock or Rolling Rock)
1 onion, minced
2 tablespoons dried Italian seasoning

Place roast into the crock pot. Drain pepperoncini and pull off the stems. Dump into the crock pot with the rest of the ingredients and cook on low for 8-10 hours.

Shred beef with two forks and return to broth. Mix well, and serve on french loaf bread with provolone cheese. We love these! And they are not spicy

* I can't remember if I've mentioned it (or mentioned it 100 times), but we order our meat in 6 month allotments (which lasts us 7 or 8 months, usually) from Town and Country foods. They deliver the best meat-fresh, grain-fed, low-fat meats, great variety (steak, chicken, beef, ground turkey, sausage-they also have fish, but we don't order any), as well as organic veggies and other extras (we usually get some pasta, corn dogs, meatballs, things like that).
** If you ever get invited to a Homemade Gourmet party, GO! And buy lots of stuff, and get on their mailing list. These are great mixes that let you have easy peasy dinners for cheap.