What's for dinner on a cold, rainy January day?

Looks like the sort of day not fit to be outside, a day long cold rain is in store for St. Louis so dinner should be kind of comforting.  Comfort Food!

This means making something which you can smell cooking all day long and what better than putting a roast into a slow cooker and ending up with roast beef sandwiches?  The only question is, what kind of roast beef sandwich, the Chicago style or the St. Louis style.  

Chicago has its own blend of seasoning but more importantly the beef must be roasted and then thinly sliced and added to the seasoned juice/gravy.  St. Louis tosses the roast into the cooker in seasoned liquid and when done, pulls the meat apart like pulled pork.  

Frankly I prefer the Chicago way, but we don't have the great bread down here that Chicagoans use so I think I'll go pulled tonight.  Let it simmer away all day.  

Rump roast or top round?  hmmm.  I guess it will depend on what the grocery store has today.  

Here's a really good roast beef sandwich recipe I found some years ago from VodkaPundit.

1 Beef rump roast.
1 giant thing (20 oz) beef stock.
1 whole onion, sliced.
1 garlic clove, thinly sliced.
4 tablespoons butter.
Four demi baguettes.
Provolone cheese, thinly sliced.
Salt & pepper.

Put all the beef, stock, onion, garlic, butter and salt & pepper (to taste) in your slow cooker on low for seven hours. Slice the demi baguettes in half, 2/3 the way down. Toast the tops, very slightly, with the provolone — just enough toasting to get the cheese a little melty.

Remove the beef. Slice thin. Pile on the sandwiches. Serve with a ramekin full up with the juice from the slow cooker. Dip and munch, baby. Dip and munch.

These are very very good.  You could also drop a few pepperoncinis into the cooking liquid as well for a bit of tang.  

 

Comments

[Sharon Philp]

That recipe you listed a few years ago and again above is exceedingly delicious. I'd suggest sliced with cheese, kind of like the French dip at Arby's, which is not quite as good as that recipe.

[Diane]

I put provolone on this one, did it tonight. It is so good, just put the cheese on half the bread under the broiler for a minute. This vodkapundit one turned out really good.