Creative Kristin strikes again! With bottom round roast!

So, you know how you plan dinner in your head? Do a mental inventory of ingredients? Search for a recipe to include what you have on hand? Thaw out your cut of meat? AND THEN........realized you have almost nothing you need! No? Is that only me? Well when that happens I get to get creative! :) Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. This time it worked! I have only made this once so I need to make it again to make sure it wasn't a fluke, or YOU could make it and let me know! :)

Here is the original recipe.

Here are my alternatives!

Ingredients:

• 1 beef bottom round roast, about 3 to 4 pounds (I only had a half of one so about 2 lbs.)
• 2 cloves garlic, finely minced
• salt and pepper
• 3 to 4 slices bacon, cut in half crosswise (I used 5 pieces cut in thirds)
• 1 cup chopped onion (Hubby isn't an onion fan so I used 1/2 of an onion, didn't measure it cup wise)
• 1 cup apple juice (I didn't have any, I used 1 cup peperoncini juice!)
• 1 can (10 3/4 ounces) condensed beef broth (Didn't have this either! I used vegetable broth)
• 4 tablespoons cider vinegar (Not this either, I used red wine vinegar)

I didn't change anything about the way I cooked it. Super easy. Every 30 minutes or so I did turn the beef to rotate it in the juices. 

In the end the beef was moist and tender. It looked dark, almost burnt, all the juices had cooked down. I took the bacon and onion mix and topped the beef with it before serving. It wasn't burnt, AT ALL. It tasted a little like beef jerky, I think that was the peperoncini juice, but soft and juicy. The hubby was a HUGE fan. Once he told me he loved it I just started laughing and said, "well good, because I got creative with this one! Of the main ingredients I only had the beef, bacon, and onion! Overall this had a GREAT flavor, and I will be trying again!