I love a good roast, but I don't crock pot.mix up some flower, salt and red an black pepper. Dredge meat in flour. Put in skillet with bacon grease. When wet with grease dredge again Brown meat til crusty .r meat.
Add onion and celery chopped to your skillet you just seared meat in, including drippings. Cook til onions clear. Put onions an celery in a baking dish with three cups beef broth. Add parsnips...oven at 425degrees. With foil on top. Bake one hour. After hour, add taters quartered. Bake another fourth five mins.remove and add carrots. Cook fifteen or twenty. Remove, let rest ten mins sprinkle rosemary. And grate some horseradish. .ENJOY