Lipton Onion Soup Mix....It's What's For Dinner!!

Today is a day off (and cold for AZ) so I wanted to make something that qualifies as "comfort food". Nothing says comfort to me quite as much as a slow cooker meal!!

The local Safeway store has pork on special often so I had a nice pork loin roast in the freezer. Rather than do the normal pot roast with potatoes, onion, and carrots, I decided to try something new.

I had some "Lipton Onion Soup Mix" in the cupboard and noticed this web address on the envelope: http://www.recipesecrets.com/. So I went to that web site and found this really cool tool. So first I clicked on "advanced recipe search". That took me to a page that had three sections. The first section was "recipe category". It listed categories such as appetizers, side dishes, and main dishes, etc. So I selected main dishes. The next section was "Main Ingredient" so I selected pork. The third section labeled "Signature Recipes" with selections like kid favorites, side dishes, and slow cooker. Slow cooker is my choice today!

The recipe I selected today after much discussion with Rex because it had ingredients in it he doesn't normally eat...good thing he has a cold this week so his taste buds are not a peak performance!! Anyway my recipe selection was : Slow Cooker Southwestern Pork Roast.

The recipe is:

2-1/2 lbs. boneless pork roast

1 envelope Lipton® Recipe Secrets® Onion Soup Mix

1 can (14-1/2 oz.) diced tomatoes, undrained

2 cans (4 oz. ea.) chopped green chilies, undrained

3 Tbsp. firmly packed brown sugar

2 tsp. chili powder1 tsp. ground cumin

Place the pork in the slow cooker, mix remaining ingredients and pour over the pork. Cook on low 8 to 10 hours or high 4 to hours.

This can be served over rice or noodles if you wish. This was really flavorful. My pork didn't exactly look like this picture because as usual I forgot to take one..we just ate. This picture is the one off the recipe from the web site but mine looked sorta like that. And the best part is, it TASTED great!!

I also have something in mind for the leftovers!!