Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Meat (generally beef) cooked in a pot with a little water, and allowed to become brown as if roasted.
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Examples
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Makes me want to pour sugar on top of my kids pot-roast ... just to protest this Pompous President.
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At first, the show made me depressed, as I thought Joan and Betty lived bleak existences, what with the typing pool being viewed by the blokes as an in-house, date-rape, pick-your-own, with the alternative being stuck at home in the suburbs taking Valium and cooking a pot-roast for three decades.
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She was cooking pot-roast (oh the glory of volunteers being able to live on their own!) and we got a couple bottles of wine (which I would later regret).
Archive 2008-06-01 Jenni's life at the moment 2008
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She was cooking pot-roast (oh the glory of volunteers being able to live on their own!) and we got a couple bottles of wine (which I would later regret).
Jenni's life at the moment Jenni's life at the moment 2008
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Usually, I just carry a pot-roast in there in case one day, for some reason, I have to skip lunch.
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* Its main purpose here is to keep the meat red even after its cooked; if you omit the pink salt, the beef will turn pot-roast gray-brown, but it will still taste delicious.
Ratio Michael Ruhlman 2009
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I've never cooked a pot-roast, but this looks so good I'm inspired to give it a try
How to Make Pot Roast in a Crockpot: Balsamic and Onion Pot Roast Kalyn Denny 2007
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My favourite entries are those in January, during which Slater sells the reader on the joys of cold-weather cooking - dal and pumpkin soup, a good British stew, double ginger cake, pot-roast pheasant, and sausages with salami and lentils.
Review: Shaun 2006
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"To cook meat in a closed container over heat, similar to the American pot-roast."
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But in the UK and Australia, heating from above is called "grilling" and broil means according to GrahamT, who appears to be British "to cook meat in a closed container over heat, similar to the American pot-roast."
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