I jumped on the bandwagon after reading the reviews for this. We don't eat a lot of beef in our house, but crock pot roast is one of my favorites. I used a sirloin roast, which was the only roast they had in the store (I have a two-year old and an infant...I wasn't about to wait for the butcher to cut something different). It turned out tender and flavorful, but I think a rump roast would work best for this. Unfortunately, that cut is hard to come by here in Chicago.

I hit a small glitch when I got home from the store and realized they'd forgotten to put my Italian dressing mix in the bag. I looked up the ingredients online and made it using spices I had on hand. I didn't measure them out; I kind of just tossed them in the pot in amounts that looked right. So the taste may not have been exactly right on, but we all agreed it was good.

I served it with mashed potatoes (a combination of sweet and Yukon Gold) and a salad. A couple of nights later my husband dumped the leftover meat, gravy and some sour cream into a skillet and made some sort of stroganoff dish. Also very good.