Sunday dinner Delight

I've been on this kick lately where I am trying not to spend so much money eating out, and trying to do the homecooked thing....I realized somewhere along the road that I was spending an unseemingly amount of money on restaurant fare, and I decided to stop eating out so much. As a result, most Sunday's now I cook a meal at home, and we have our Sunday meal the old-fashioned way, at home. Yesterday I decided to lay out a pot roast I had picked up at Kroger's awhile back, two and a half pounds for $5, which was a great deal. I had carrots and potatoes on hand, and I keep frozen chopped onions on hand always. So much easier than using fresh onions to me.
This morning I pulled out that roast, about halfway thawed, and put a few chopped onions in the bottom of my roaster, along with about 2 tbsp of oil. Don't ask me why, but somehow I just think the roast does better with a little oil in the bottom. I set the roast in the roaster pan, anointed it with seasoning salt, and lined the potatoes around the roast in the pan. Then I opened a can of cream of mushroom soup and spread that over the top of the roast. Threw the carrots in on top, along with a few on the side, a few more chopped onions, then covered the whole thing with tin foil, put in the preheated 325 degree oven, and headed to church. Three and a half hours later we came home to the most wonderful smell!
(Unfortunately we also came home to a slight haze in the house; the roast had bubbled over quite a lot in the oven, causing it to burn a little, sending out a little smoke. Thus we ate our dinner with the fan on and the door open to let the smoky haze out. )
I made a quick little packet of Lipton butter noodles and pulled some rolls out of the freezer and threw them into the oven, and wah-lah, Sunday dinner was born. It was terrific....the mushroom soup had mixed with the broth from the beef to make a rich creamy gravy, and the roast was fork tender!

Interesting story about the rolls: I picked them up at Kroger's probably two months ago; they were a "Manager's Special" for 99 cents, and I thought they were submarine rolls, and I bought them to make subs. They were called "Bolillo" rolls. I found out they worked better as dinner rolls; they are wheat rolls with a crusty top, very good. So I looked up Bolillo bread on Wikipedia, and this is was I found out: "A bolillo (English pronunciation: /bɵˈliːjoʊ/ bo-LEE-yoh) is a type of savoury bread traditionally made in Mexico, where it originates. It is a variation of the baguette, and is often baked in an horno de piedra."
So who knew when I bought these discounted rolls what I would find, and they are great! I would buy them again. If I can find them.
Ciao!