French Dip

Oh how I love French Dip sandwiches!!! They are truly one of my favorite things to eat!  My kids really love to eat them up too.  Today I tried something new, here's the recipe.

French Dip
1 Beef Roast
1/4 cup butter
salt
pepper
1 sweet onion
4-5 cloves garlic
1/2 cup beef bouillon granules
8 cups water
1 packet Italian salad dressing seasoning mix

Melt butter in large pot over high heat on stove.  Salt and pepper one side of roast, put that side down in the hot pan/butter.  Salt and pepper the other side and flip the roast over, getting all sides nice and brown.

Place roast in slow cooker.  Add remaining ingredients.  Cook over low heat for 6-8 hours.  Shred the beef and serve on buns.  Strain the onion out of the juice and use the rest of the juice as the dipping juice for the sandwich.

Yum!

Meathballs

I was looking for a good meatball recipe and came across a good base on allrecipes.com.  I just made my additions and loved it.  They were so, super easy too!  Such a fun addition to our normal boring spaghetti... although these would be delicious with other meals too...like a meatball sub!

Meatballs
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 lb ground beef
1/3 cup seasoned bread crumbs
2 Tbsp dry, minced onion
1 garlic clove, minced
1 egg
1/2 tsp salt
pepper
basil
oregano

Spread the olive oil in a 9 x 13 and place in oven while it preheats to 350.  Mix all the remaining ingredients (I personally love to just get my hands in there and mash it all together, but you can use a spoon, whatever).  Form the meat mixture into balls (mine were a little bigger than a normal cookie scoop, but smaller than an ice cream scoop), I got 12 that size.

Bake for 15 minutes.  Turn and bake for about 5 minutes more, until golden.

I put mine in Spaghetti Sauce while it simmered.  So yummy!