"George M. Middius" > wrote in message
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> Steve Pope wrote:
>
>> >> You're not supposed to eat the carrots and onions from a pot roast.
>> >> They are to be discarded.
>>
>> >Go on, please. Why would you discard food?
>>
>> The idea is similar to when you make vegetable stock. The solid
>> portions are discarded because, after two or three hours of cooking
>> all the flavor has gone into the liquid.
>
> That strikes me as more than a little nutty.

Seein' as how I just ate one of those pieces of potato, cold, strikes me as
nutty too. Had plenty of flavor.

Adding veggies to a roast is not the same as making a broth. Unless you
count the onions of course. The meat should be mostly cooked first and then
you add the veggies.