I love slow cooker pot roast - tender slices of chuck roast, meltingly soft carrots, little golden potatoes that burst from their peels when you bite into them, and the gravy. Oh, the gravy! Few ...

Instead of fortifying store-bought beef stock >> Use a beef demi-glace or 2 cups of water combined with a concentrated beef stock base, such as Better Than Bouillon (using twice the amount of base ...