jenni's jus jus sandwich

are you party people in the mood for something totally yummy and grossly easy? try this one - jenni's jus jus sandwich. it's basically a french dip with my ghetto touches on it. so maybe i should say it's a sarasota dip. or a melbourne dip. or where eva you wanna imagine my crazy ass coming from. 

warning ya before hand - you need a slow cooker to make this happen. they aren't expensive and betcha you could even find one at a thrift shop if you wanted to. make it work!

when you are done, throw your hands up and say "jus jus jus jus jus!"

stuff you need:

* 2 large white onions. slice um in half then make length wise cuts all down the body of the onion. then slice width wise to end up with not too long strips. easy peasy. or, if you are mad lazy buy them pre-sliced in the produce section.

* a pint o mushrooms, sliced. white mushrooms are fine as rain.

* two tablespoons of unsalted butter, divided and cut into quarters

* 3 -4 lbs boneless bottom round roast. it really just has to be a roast, whatever is on sale.

* 4 cups water from the purest of springs. just messing, i get my water out of my sink.

* 1 cup beef broth - optional. you can sub this for an additional cup o water if you want. or if you want to go all beef crazy you could add more beef broth and take out the water. just watch it, you don't want it to get too sailor salty on ya - which it will if you aren't careful.

* 1/2 cup soy sauce - this ingredient is why more salt isn't happening. soy sauce has mad salt. you could in theory add pepper but i would be sparing. 

* 1 envelope onion soup mix

* 3 cloves minced garlic. cause everrrrythang is better with garlic. and you can get this junk pre-minced in the produce section too. like biggie said, "if you don't know, now ya knooooow!"

* sub rolls. you could use french rolls but that junk is hard. i like martin's unseeded hoagie rolls cause they are soft but not so soft that the jus makes them fall apart (gag). if you have teeth of steel feel free to use the french ones.

* swiss cheese sliced. i like to cut um into triangles all subway style. you can make the swiss happen shredded if you can find it. shredded swiss doesn't happen up my way.

what to do:

1. cut the onions like i DONE TOLD YOU BEFORE. ha ha ha.

2. put them in the bottom of the slow cooker.

3. dump the sliced mushrooms into the bottom of the slow cooker as well. mix them with the onions.

4. take your divided quartered tablespoons of butter delight and scatter them on top of the onion/mushroom mix. 

5. place your roast on top of the onion/mushroom/butter mess you just made.

6. take the onion soup mix, garlic, water, broth, soy sauce and whisk it all around in a bowl. you don't have to have a whisker (is this the correct technical name......? prolly not), you could just use a fork till the soup powder isn't all lumpity.

7. pour the mixed up stuff over your roast.

8. let that stuff cook on low for 6-9 hours, depending on the doneness you like. i like a little bit rarer of a cut so i would look to take this stuff out around hour 7 or so. the watery junk that'll end up will be your jus so don't stress when you see the liquid rise. you want that to happen.

9. take the beef out and let it just sit and ponder it's life for about 5 minutes. this'll seal the juices in and also keep it from burning your cute little fingers off when you cut it.

10. in the meantime when your beef is cold chillin, take a colander and put it over a big bowl. pour the remaining stuff from your crock pot into the colander. this'll separate the onions, garlic, and mushrooms from the jus jus jus. put the onion/mushroom/garlic in another bowl.

11. slice your beef as thin as you can, against the grain else it'll fall apart. don't fret about uneven pieces or whatever, you aren't getting graded.

12. place your oven on broil and open your rolls.

13. put slices of beef, then mushroom/onion/garlic mix, then cheese into your rolls. put them on a cookie sheet.

14. place into your oven until cheese melts. it won't take too long, so watch it.

15. pour jus into an appropriate sized bowl for dipping.

16. consume mass quanities or serve mass quanities. either way you are going to look BRILLIANT.