Video Instant Pot Roast Beef and Gravy

Instant Pot Roast Beef and Gravy is quickly replacing my oven version in my fall and winter dinner lineup. It is SO easy, and it makes the most fall-apart tender pot roast that I’ve ever had before. What’s not to love?

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Instant Pot Roast Beef and Gravy

Okay so maybe the Instant Pot doesn’t warm up your kitchen on a crisp winter evening in the same homey way your oven does. I’ll give you that. But if you are like me, you probably don’t really have time for logs on the fire. It is temperature controlled, programmable thermostat around our house, just so I don’t have to deal with the danger/cleaning/upkeep of a wood stove.

Don’t get me wrong. I LOVE wood stoves. I prefer it, even, and sitting around a crackling fire brings back some of the best memories for me. It’s amazing. I just…can’t, right now.

You know when your schedule just cannot hold any more things, period, and you have to start either dropping items or making the things you are juggling a little less…heavy?

No? Just me?

Well, that’s where I’m at right now with the wood stove, and having an organized house, or going all-out on decorating for any holiday. That just isn’t my reality, right now. And THAT’S OKAY.

It is not that I have anything against it, I just am out of minutes in my day and at the point where anything extra? It is not in the cards.

Thankfully I know this is only a season, and seasons pass, but in the meantime, if my family wants roast beef – it might not be the version that takes me the better part of an afternoon and a whole lot of brainpower and care. They like both versions and are just glad to have dinner to eat, so why should I worry about it so much?

Last year I don’t think I even baked a cookie during the holiday season. THAT’S CRAZY. But it is also OKAY.

This year I’m slowing errrrrything down a little bit, and taking some very purposeful time to enjoy the season. Whether it is fall, the holidays, or just your circumstances in life right now; it is okay to take a minute.

Just because life is crazy and I can’t make everything 100% from scratch, or sometimes my kid goes to school in two-day-old socks, or someone forgot to brush one night, or OMGosh my house doesn’t look it could be featured in BHG, or even accept visitors with less than 2 hours notice…I can still make some killer meals that are GOOD ENOUGH. Not only good enough, but pretty freaking good, too. And everyone is OKAY.

I get into this funk sometimes where if I’m not being innovative and adding new, exciting things to our menu all the time…why bother? Or if things in my work or my blog or my family aren’t progressing along as the rate I think they should. Or if I forgot to buy something, or didn’t get to do as much as I wanted to prep for a birthday party, or ANY of those things that the little jerky voice in my head likes to come down on me about.

But hey guess what. Is my family fed? Are my coworkers glad to work with me? Is my blog hanging in there?

Bonus points if most of those are a yes AND if I can say, “NOPE NOT COOKING TONIGHT OR EVEN THINKING ABOUT WHAT EVERYONE IS EATING TONIGHT.” – and I can be pretty certain they’ll just…figure it out.

I think that means I win.

Even those of us who genuinely enjoy feeding our families for fun, and not only necessity, get to enjoy those days sometimes.

Whether you work full time, or you stay home.

Whether you have zero kids or ten kids.

Whether your site gets 10 hits a day or 10,000.

Whether you guys are eating something that took you all day using ingredients you grew yourself, or you’re tossing a couple frozen pizzas in the oven or letting your kids eat cereal or PBJs they made themselves…

You are most likely doing just fine. Give yourself a break. Be kind to yourself. Talk to yourself like you’d want your best friend to talk to you.

Maybe you guys just intuitively “get” this, but for me, it was a LONG process. And not a fun one, either. So many people were telling me that they didn’t know how I could POSSIBLY do it all (meaning that as an encouragement), I kind of started questioning…maybe I wasn’t doing it?

But what they don’t tell you in, “Holy crap you are an adult now” land is that NO ONE IS DOING IT ALL WELL. Not even if it appears so, from the outside. Everyone struggles. Everyone has doubts. Everyone gets scared sometimes.

Reach out to the people around you when you are feeling that way, even if you aren’t sure how they’ll react. I think they’ll surprise you. And it’ll be okay.

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