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Every time I go to a restaurant and see a French Dip Sandwich on the menu I feel like I need to order it. They are absolutely one of my favorites but only when done right. I was scrolling thru Facebook one night I came across a recipe for them to be made at home in your CrockPot. I sent the link to my husband and once it was approved I added the ingredients to our shopping list. My husband is a VERY picky eater and we don’t like a lot of the same things with the exception of meat … we both love to eat meat! Guess we will never be vegetarians or vegans … or we would have to get a divorce. The recipe seemed fairly simple since all you have to do is combined all the ingredients into the CrockPot and let them cook for 10 hours.

Here is what you are going to need:

EVOO – Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Salt and Pepper to season

3lbs of Chuck Roast – We did a little less just because its just us. We bought a 3.5 pound roast and then cut it in half so we could use the other half for a pot roast another day.

1 clove of garlic (minced) – personally I LOVE anything with garlic so I might have tripled that …

2-3 onions (sliced)

2 tbsp of Worcestershire sauce

1/2 tsp Thyme dried – Also take note if your sending someone to the store to buy the Thyme you want to make sure that they don’t buy the powder version. That’s what my husband grabbed when I sent him to the spice aisle.

1 bay leaf

2 cups of beef stock

Optional items:

Hoagie or some other kind of roll

Provolone cheese

Turn on your CrockPot and put approx. 2 tbsp of EVOO in the bottom of the pot. Then place you chuck roast in the pot. Lightly sprinkle the roast with salt and pepper, flip over and cover the other side with salt and pepper too.

Then add all of the other ingredients to the pot and cook for 10 hours on low. About 30 minutes before dinner remove the meat and slice or shred it then place it back in the pot for easier service at dinner time.

If you decided to serve your meat on a roll preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Slice all of the rolls and place a piece of provolone cheese in the middle. Then put them in the oven for 5 minutes or until all of the cheese is melted.