I cooked my first roast last night
 

Not bad for someone who 4 months ago ate everything out of a box or bag straight from the freezer. I am starting to get a little worried that I am getting to use to this "houseboy" role. :D

Re: I cooked my first roast last night
 

What was the meat?

I roasted a lamb on Sunday. It was delicious!!



NC Penguin

Re: I cooked my first roast last night
 

;) Over to you lot......!



Well done PB, so did you have vegetables with it or not?

Re: I cooked my first roast last night
 

It was chicken.

I dont eat veggies myself, other than potatos, but my wife had squash, at least thats I think how you spell it?

Re: I cooked my first roast last night
 

Well done old chap,

My yearly roasting dinner is coming around again (thanksgiving) its the only time I can be arsed to cook a proper roast it either that or a bunch of stringy green caserole and weird white fluffy stuff:confused:

This year I will prepare the roast at my house and take it too the in-laws, last year I tried to do it at the mother-in-laws and it didn't go down to well, you see housewifes have a thing about others in THEIR KITCHEN...

I shall be doing roast potatoes (not quite like mum's though) SWEDE also known as ratabaga or something like that, peas, carrots and maybe a bit of cabbage, I shall leave the turkey to the mother-in-law.

I got all the major pots and pans out on Sunday and whipped up a toad in the hole and roast potatoes with Bisto gravy granules for the family on Sunday!

Can't beat that fat feeling on a Sunday night...all I needed was Songs of Praise, Last of the Summer Wine, Hartbeat (remember that with Nick Berry)....give the dinner a few hours to digest...then hit the kitchen again for apple pie or rhubarb crumble or some such stodgy British pudding....I wish!

It was roasting inside and out (84 degrees). I must try harder to stave off the winter nesting insincts in future....

Cannae think of anything worse than a roast dinner or some "british" custard and pie rubbish. Actually I can - Patricks pants!

Bisto Gravy Granules!!!!! :PARTY:

Q: Why does BBCAmerica in no way resemble BBC? Or has the UK been taken over by Carol Smilie and Graham Norton?

Because it isn't the BBC!!!!!

Actually it never struck a chord with me till I moved here and I started having all sorts of idyllic notions about life back home....it took a year to hit but it hit hard!

LOL - then don't do it again!

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Here's an example of me only having read about something American....

I knew that rutabaga (the Swedish word for Swede, the vegetable) was American for what Brits call swede.

However, I'd only ever read the word so I didn't know its pronounciation. When I first said it to my husband, I pronounced it as "rootabugger".

Husband (to be at the time), burst into uncontrollable laughter. Well, how was I to know how it was pronounced?




NC Penguin

It was just a whinge really but thanks for pointing that out.

Re: OT Re: I cooked my first roast last night
 

I think that describes it pretty well actually. I've never understood why anyone bothers with them.

Re: OT Re: I cooked my first roast last night
 

Quick NC, tell us how it is spelt. I can surprise hubby when he gets home from work. Today I'll learn how to pronounce rutabaga, tomorrow I might read the Constitution!

(Anyone actually read it yet?)