Super Easy Hot Beef Sammiches

I really have to rename this blog.  

We moved out of Door County about 6 months ago, relocating to where I grew up, in the Central Sands of Wisconsin.   The lands of Aldo Leopold and John Muir, what naturalists call the Oak Savannah.  Here, the soil is like beach sand, the water table is at shoveling depth, irrigation is the rule for farming, and the farmers grow things like potatoes, cucumbers, peppers and some anemic looking corn.  Like the general store in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", we live in a geographical oddity...we're about 1 hour from everywhere, if everywhere encompasses the Fox River Valley cities, Madison or Stevens Point.   Clear blue lakes with sand bottoms and untinted water abound.  Wildlife such as cranes, turkeys, deer and a few wolves and bears abound.  Giant pine trees stand like soldiers at attention in orderly rows, next to woods full of various types of oak and jack pine.   The sound of blue jays and whipoorwills fill the air, which smells of pine and sand.

I could really use some help in renaming this blog...bring on the suggestions.  On with the recipe!

This hot beef sandwich recipe is so easy that it doesn't even need pictures.  This is a perfect 'start before work, come home to dinner' meal that's good any time of the year.   In fact, we're having it tonight.

You need:

1 crock pot
1 3-4 pound chuck or other cheap beef roast
1 bottle of lager beer
1 small onion, cut up
1 or 2 jalapeno pepper, halved and seeded (optional)
1 heaping tablespoon minced garlic
2 tablespoons beef bouillon powder
Salt, pepper

Rub the roast with salt and pepper, set in crock pot.  Pour bottle of beer in the crock pot, throw rest of ingredients in the crock pot.  Set on high for 6 hours (medium if you need it to cook longer).   Roast should fall apart easily.   Spoon beef onto buns.  You can serve as is, or use condiments such as horseradish, raw onion, pickled jalapenos, swiss cheese slices, etc.   Very tasty and so easy!