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    Home » Recipes » Sunday Dinners

    Published: Jan 23, 2020 · Modified: Apr 30, 2020 by Danielle · This post may contain affiliate links. For more information, see our privacy policy.

    Sunday Dinner: Pot Roast Edition

    A cozy meal worthy of grandma's kitchen. Fall apart pot roast served over fluffy mashed potatoes alongside flavorful veggies, simple salad, and tender biscuits. Time to get your Sunday on!

    Pot Roast, mashed potatoes, and green beans on a plate with text overlay this recipe
    A full meal of slow cooker pot roast, mashed potatoes, green beans, and corn. Perfect for serving a crowd on the weekend!
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    • 🥔 The Menu
    • 👩🏻‍🍳 Menu Advice
    • 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 Tips For a Crowd
    • 📖 More Sunday Dinner menus
    • 👋 Connect with us! 
    • 💬 Comments

    There is something within each of us that gets filled when we share a good meal surrounded by the people we love, whether family or friends. This menu provides the perfect way to slow down the treadmill of life and enjoy those relationships.

    You can read more about Why a Sunday Dinner Tradition is So Powerful here.

    One of the things Misty and I love to do is sit around and look through cookbooks, blogs, Pinterest, and our own recipe collection to come up with a great menu. This menu represents all those things. We have been making each one of these recipes for many years. They're definitely recipes that will be passed down to the next generation. We hope you will enjoy them as much as we do!

    🥔 The Menu

    Main Dish

    • Slow Cooker Fall Apart Pot Roast made with this super easy 2-Ingredient Pot Roast Seasoning

    Side Dishes

    • Red Skinned Mashed Potatoes
    • Green Beans Almondine OR Skillet Roasted Corn
    • The Easiest Cream Biscuits
    • Simple Green Salad
    • Or check out this post for more roast beef sides

    Dessert

    • This Perfect Chocolate Bundt Cake, Every Single Time is a dream of a chocolate cake. Soft and moist with a rich chocolatey flavor and a luscious ganache to top it off.
    Pot Roast On Plate with Mashed Potatoes and Green Beans
    A tender, flavorful pot roast with a simple gravy is fast and easy to make all in the slow cooker!

    👩🏻‍🍳 Menu Advice

    No matter when you make this menu I have a couple of general tips. FIRST, my advice is to make the roast and the potatoes from scratch. SECOND, don't skip making the cake. It will make you famous. 😉 Even better, bake and freeze up to a month ahead, but don't ganache it until the day of serving.

    Shortcuts

    • For the vegetables buy a quality frozen brand and cook them carefully. Overcooking always produces mushy vegetables. Toss in some butter, salt, and pepper.
    • Purchase ready to bake biscuits. In my experience either refrigerated or frozen will do.

    👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 Tips For a Crowd

    • Pot Roast: Make sure not to overcrowd your slow cooker. It’s better to borrow one from a friend in order to have enough space. Aim for the meat to be done an hour before serving. Then you can remove the roasts, separate them into chunks while the sauce thickens, and put them back in on keep warm until time to serve.
    • Red Skinned Mashed Potatoes: Use a really large pot. Or split them between two pots. When I make for 20+ people I use a stock pot that is 16 quarts. Plenty of water is one of the secrets to keeping the potatoes from becoming gummy.
    • Corn and/or Green Beans: Again, don’t overcrowd the pan. A little bit of a broken record here.
    • Cream biscuits: Make ahead and place in the freezer. After a short bake in the oven they're done.
    The perfect chocolate bundt cake on a cake plate with plates and forks
    The Perfect Chocolate Bundt Cake is moist, soft, and super chocolatey!

    📖 More Sunday Dinner menus

    • For another grilling favorite try this Tropical Grilling Edition of our Sunday Dinners.
    • Can't get enough tacos? This Chicken Tinga Sunday Dinner will be a family favorite!
    • Everytime I make this Honey Butter Pork Tenderloin it disappears. So delicious!
    • My favorite Mexican menu is the Sunday Dinner: Grilled Taco Edition. One of our all-time, never-gets-old menu!

    👋 Connect with us! 

    If you try this menu, please leave a comment and star rating below to let us know how it is! We’d also love to connect with you on Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest. Tag @borrowedbites or hashtag #borrowedbites to show us your food! To get our new recipes straight to your email, subscribe to our newsletter.

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    1. Marcy says

      August 26, 2020 at 3:57 pm

      Wow, this was really helpful to have all the menu items in the same place. I made the pot roast (best part of the meal!), potatoes, and green beans. My brother made the cream biscuits and daughter brought the cake. We had a great family meal!

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      • Misty says

        August 26, 2020 at 3:59 pm

        I love that you had other people make portions of the meal. Makes it much more doable!

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    2. Misty says

      February 01, 2020 at 4:34 pm

      Glad you enjoyed it!

      Reply
    3. Karen says

      January 23, 2020 at 8:52 am

      Yum.EEE

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