Take That Twice Cooked Pork!!!

This is what I learned this weekend:

Oven: kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting
Dutch Oven: a heavy cooking pot, usually of cast iron or enamel-on-iron, with a heavy cover.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered they were two different things. Previously, the only definition of dutch oven I knew was from Roomie: when you fart and hold your partner's head under the cover.

I bought all the ingredients to make pot roast. Its suppose to take three hours of cook time, and probably 30 minutes of prep time. I logged in an hour's worth of prep time. So I'm happily washing the veggies and whatnot, and Roomie informs me that we don't own a dutch oven. Hummm...
Then she comes up with the genius idea of using the slow cooker. Brilliant. The only thing is that I found a recipe for pot roast using the slow cooker, and let me just say this: starting at 4pm it would have been done around midnight. But we figured that's as good an idea as any. Since we were trying to speed up the process so that it wouldn't take a mere 7 hours, I browned the meat in a pot over the stove. After 10 minutes, I dumped it in the slow cooker with carrots, celery, onions, garlic, mushrooms, rosemary, and thyme.

In the meantime I studied (supposedly) and worked on my fitness (according to Fergie Ferg). Three hours later, took the lid off slow cooker and said, 'DAMN!! It doesn't look hearty!!' Roomie asked me why I wanted something hearty when its 90 degrees outside. I had no clue, but I was really after some blizzard weather hearty meat.

The slow cooker ain't lying when it makes the claim that it cooks slow. NO JOKE. I cut open the meat and its red. Blah. About this time its 9pm, and I've been at this since 5, so needless to say I'm hungry and impatient. We decided to stick the pot roast and all its glory onto a pan, throw some foil on top, and finish cooking it in the oven for an hour. And the picture below is the result. Yummy! Seriously, it was yummy. The picture doesn't do my three times cooked pot roast any justice. The picture looks like a mini moat with floating carrots...