Cast Iron Pot Roast

Ingredients

• 3 lbs pot roast, as round as you can find
• 1 tablespoon McCormick's Montreal Brand steak seasoning
• 4 potatoes, scrubbed and peeled and quartered (I use Yukon Gold)
• 1 turnip, scrubbed and pared
• 1/2 onion, sliced in big chunks
• 2 cups carrots, pared (and chunked)
• 1 cup rutabaga, diced
• 1 celery rib, peeled (and chunked)
• 1 dozen button mushroom
• Sauce
• to 1 cup boiling wateradd
• 2 teaspoons beef base
• 2 teaspoons mushrooms, base
• 1 cup tomato juice (or V-8)
• 1 sprig thyme
• parsley (to garnish)