• @hansolo@lemm.ee
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    3015 days ago

    …I can’t find it.

    Where’s the Ed Sheeran bit? I’m sure there’s a reference in there.

    Is he the carrot? He’s the carrot, isn’t he?

  • Lexam
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    1014 days ago

    Pretty common here in the Midwest.

  • CubitOom
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    914 days ago

    I prefer to do my roasts on a bed of aromatic mirepoix. I’ll cook the potatoes separately.

    • @irishPotato@sh.itjust.works
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      314 days ago

      (Click saving) this guy (and myself) move the potatoes to another ceramic, add celery to the carrot-onion mix & chop that and leave it under the roast

      • themeatbridge
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        1015 days ago

        Boiling gets the sweet carrot flavor out of the carrot and into the stew. It’s like onions and celery, the point is not to have mushy bits of formerly flavorful vegetables, but to have those flavors in the food. If you’re making a mirepoix for soup or stew, it is a mistake to leave big chunks or slices of carrot intact.

        Roasted carrots are different, though, I agree.

        • @Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works
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          414 days ago

          Carrots in a stew, great. Boiled carrots as a side dish? Let’s throw all that flavor down the sink. See you in hell aunt Ellen

        • Miles O'Brien
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          314 days ago

          This is why there are varying carrots in my stew.

          Some go in early to get that carrot flavor in the stock, which I like, but that makes them mushy and gross.

          So I usually try and get the first carrots out before the potatoes go in, and then it’s kind of a guess on my end when to put more carrots in so they’re nicely cooked but not overdone.

        • @shutz@lemmy.ca
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          214 days ago

          When my mom roasts a turkey, she puts onions, leek, celery and, yes, carrots around and under the turkey. She uses a rôtissoire that keeps most of the moisture inside, such that the turkey essentially bastes itself during the roasting.

          Once the turkey’s done, she takes it out and uses the mix of juices and vegetables left in the pan to make the gravy. Sometimes, she’ll add one or two pouches of turkey gravy mix, especially if there’s a lot of people to feed and she wants to have more gravy, but sometimes, all she does is purée the veggies into the juices, maybe add some water and corn starch to thicken everything, and that’s our gravy! The carrots definitely add a sweetness, not to mention color to the gravy.

      • @grue@lemmy.world
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        214 days ago

        I’m gonna have to try that sometime. At my house, pork shoulder tends to get used for carnitas or pulled-pork barbecue.

        • @SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world
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          114 days ago

          We usually get a tenderloin at Costco and cut it into chops and roasts. Some of the roasts get made into carnitas and pulled pork as well, but we will just season one up and bbq it for an hour too.

          • @grue@lemmy.world
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            214 days ago

            “Tenderloin” or just regular “loin?”

            Tenderloin is the pig equivalent of filet mignon; IMO it’s too tender to justify the sorts of cooking methods you use to compensate for cheaper, tougher meat.

            Seems reasonable for regular loin, though. I’d still usually pick shoulder for low and slow cooking because it works just as well and tends to be cheaper, but sometimes it isn’t.

  • @Kowowow@lemmy.ca
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    815 days ago

    I’m more into beef stew than roast beef but man I’d love to be able to pick some up from fast food place

  • @realitista@lemm.ee
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    14 days ago

    I actually just finished eating that half an hour ago. In the instant pot with some sauce. Good stuff.

  • @tacosplease@lemmy.world
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    414 days ago

    Nah. Nothing wrong with it, but I either don’t have time for roast or have better things (to my taste) to cook with that time.

  • @Valmond@lemmy.world
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    314 days ago

    Love that when it gets together nicely.

    Haven’t done one in ages though, what’s your best recipes out there?