Nancy's Roast Beef with Root Veggies

• Non-stick cooking spray
• 1 beef roast, approximately 3 lbs. – I use angus eye of round, but any good roast will do.
• 1 bulb of garlic
• 2 tablespoons salt
• ½ teaspoon pepper
• 1 tablespoon powdered sugar
• ½ cup flour
• 2 tablespoons butter or margarine

• 12 potatoes, peeled, washed, and quartered
• 3 large onions, peeled washed, quartered and separate at least some of the sections.
• 1 one pound bag of baby carrots.

1. Spray roaster pan with non-stick cooking spray.
2. Rub roast on all sides with the salt and pepper that has been measured. The measurements are exact that are listed. It produces perfectly seasoned results.
3. Separate the cloves in the bulb of garlic. Crack the skins of the cloves by placing a knife on each one and smashing it. Peel the skins off and discard them. There should be about 12 cloves of garlic.
4. Cut each clove into 3 to 5 slivers.
5. Cut ½ inch slits into roast on all sides and slip slivers of garlic into each one.
6. Rub the roast with butter or margarine.
7. In a bag, place powdered sugar and flour and shake to mix. (The powdered sugar only serves as a browning agent, not to really sweeten it.)
8. Place roast in the bag and shake to cover.
9. Place the roast in the roaster. And dump any extra flour/powdered sugar mixture into the roasting pan.
10. Remove top oven rack, place the roaster on the bottom rack on the lowest position possible.
11. Create a tent over the roast with aluminum foil.
12. Cover roaster pan with lid.
13. Bake at 275 degrees for 3 hours.
14. Remove lid of roaster and foil of roaster.
15. Bake for 1 hour longer at 275.
16. Add vegetables and 1 and ¾ cups water.
17. Cover with foil and roaster lid again.
18. Bake for 1 hour longer.
19. Remove foil and roast, placing meat on plate.
20. Stir vegetables to make sure they are well coated.
21. Return the open roasting pan with vegetables to the oven for 30 minutes more.
22. While vegetables continue to roast, let meat rest on plate for 15 minutes.
23. Slice roast. It will appear that the garlic just sort of disappeared (although you will see the slits in the slices of meat.
24. Plate meat on serving plate. At the end of the 30 minutes, stir the vegetables one more time.
25. Using serving spoon, plate vegetables.
26. Add gravy that has formed from the roasting pan.
27. Serve and enjoy.