"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:16:30 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>"George M. Middius" > wrote in message
. ..
>>> 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.
>
> That would depend on the size of meat, and the type/size of veggies...
> only cooking experience can dictate at what point to add each
> ingredient.

I suppose so.