Beef Roast & Oreo Truffles

We had some friends over for dinner tonight so the Mrs made up a delicious dinner for us. A 5 lb Beef Roast, some delicious mashed potatoes &  green beans with bacon. 

Beef Roast with Veggies

 Beef Roast with Potatoes & Veggies Recipe:

• 1  teaspoon  olive oil
• 1  (3-pound) boneless chuck roast, trimmed
• 1  teaspoon  kosher salt
• 1/4  teaspoon  freshly ground black pepper
• 2  cups  coarsely chopped onion
• 1  cup  dry red wine
• 4  thyme sprigs
• 3  garlic cloves, chopped
• 1  (14-ounce) can fat-free, less-sodium beef broth
• 1  bay leaf
• 4  large carrots, peeled and cut diagonally into 1-inch pieces
• 2  pounds Yukon gold potatoes, peeled and cut into 2-inch pieces
• Fresh thyme leaves (optional)

Preheat oven to 350º.

Heat olive oil in a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Sprinkle chuck roast with salt and pepper. Add roast to pan; cook 5 minutes, turning to brown on all sides. Remove roast from pan. Add onion to pan; sauté 8 minutes or until tender.

Return browned roast to pan. Add the red wine, thyme sprigs, chopped garlic, beef broth, and bay leaf to pan; bring to a simmer. Cover pan and bake at 350° for 1 1/2 hours or until the roast is almost tender.

Add carrots and potatoes to pan. Cover and bake an additional 1 hour or until vegetables are tender. Remove thyme sprigs and bay leaf from pan; discard. Shred meat with 2 forks. Serve roast with vegetable mixture and cooking liquid.

We also decided to make some Xmas Cookie baskets for our neighbors, my coworkers and my client. the Mrs made her  Graham Cracker Praline Bars & some Oreo Truffles.Now these Oreo Truffles are the best thing ever!! they taste as good as any high end truffle you would pay $5 per piece for...and what's even better is that they are SUPER simple to make!

Oreo Truffles

Oreo Truffles Recipe:

1 Package of regular Oreos

1 Package of Cream Cheese

1 Package of Almond Bark

First you have to smash up the Oreos!!

Then you mix the smashed up oreos into a large bowl with the package of cream cheese. Mix it until it's like a thick batter, then you take out about a spoonfull of the mix and roll them into balls. After, you take all of the Almond Bark and put it into a microwave safe bowl and nuke it until it melts. Generally you do it about a minute at a time and stir in between nuking sessions. Then you take the balls of Oreo goodness and drop them in the melted chocolate.  Fork them out and set them on foil or parchment paper to cool and let the chocolate harden.  Presto you have Oreo Truffles in 30 minutes!

Now we took the Oreo Truffles and mixed them with the Praline Graham Cracker Bars to make some cute Christmas tins.