Roast Beef and Noodles

• 1-3 pound beef round roast
• 2 packages Pillsbury Homestyle dry gravy mix
• 1 cup water
• 2 ¼ cups flour
• 3 eggs
• 1 ½ teaspoon salt

1. 13 hours in advance of serving, place thawed roast in crockpot on low setting (16 hours if roast is frozen).

2. Sprinkle one package of the gravy mix over the roast.

3. Pour one cup water over the sprinkled roast and place the lid on the crockpot.

4. Turn roast halfway during the cooking time, if possible. If not, don’t worry about it.

To make the noodles:

Using the ingredients listed above, make in separate batches 3 times. (It is much easier to handle the dough, mix it thoroughly, and keep the mess contained.):

• ¾ cup flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 egg

5. On a large bar pan (to contain the flour), for each ¾ cup flour, stir in ½ teaspoon salt into the flour to distribute.

6. Mound the flour and salt mixture, then punch down the center of the mound and add an egg to the middle. Work with your fingers until thoroughly mixed. It will be kind of dry.

7. Place the ball of dough on waxed paper and roll out as thin as possible with a pizza roller.

8. Use a pizza cutter to cut the sheet of dough into ¼” strips.

9. Again, using the pizza cutter, cut the strips across in one-inch lengths.

10. Toss so that more air can reach the sides of the noodles to dry slightly.

11. About 2 hours before serving time, fill a 2 quart saucepan with water about 2/3 full. Add just a pinch of salt to get the water boiling.

12. When boiling add all the noodles, stirring to keep them from sticking together.

13. Boil about 15 minutes, until the water has cooked down somewhat. They should not be dry and there should still be some water between them, but it will be rather starchy.

14. Add the other packet of gravy mix to the crockpot and stir. The fat from the meat will aid in keeping the gravy mix from lumping up.

15. Add the noodles, water and all to the crockpot. And stir. If you have not already done so, turn the meat.

16. Continue cooking for another hour with the lid on.

17. Remove the meat and either slice it (if you do this, you will need to let it cool a bit so it will cooperate). Or cut in two inch bands and then shred the bands. Shredding is the method that I most often use.

18. With a dipper, plate some noodles with the gravy.

19. Place some roast beef with the noodles and serve.