Roast \Roast\, n. That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.
A fat swan loved he best of any roost [roast]. --Chaucer.
{To rule the roast}, to be at the head of affairs. ``The new-made duke that rules the roast.'' --Shak.
Roast \Roast\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Roasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Roasting}.] [OE. rosten, OF. rostir, F. r[^o]tir; of German origin; cf. OHG. r[=o]sten, G. r["o]sten, fr. OHG. r[=o]st, r[=o]sta, gridiron, G. rost; cf. AS. hyrstan to roast.] 1. To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces within; also, to cook in a close oven.
2. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.
In eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce difference to be discerned. --BAcon.
3. To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
4. Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn. ``Roasted in wrath and fire.'' --Shak.
5. (Metal.) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
6. To banter severely. [Colloq.] --Atterbury.
Roast \Roast\, a. [For roasted.] Roasted; as, roast beef.
Roast \Roast\, v. i. 1. To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.
He could roast, and seethe, and broil, and fry. --Chaucer.
2. To undergo the process of being roasted.
Not to mention a Hawaiian pig roast, a jazz concert and a white elephant sale.
All regular roast and ground coffees in one-pound cans will decline 15 cents a pound, as will the company's Maxwell House Master Blend coffee in the 13-ounce size.
An unusual cranberry dish is a cranberry salsa to spice up any roast: turkey, ham, pork tenderloin.
Ham - banned by Moslems - is also on the menu for Tuesday's Christmas dinner along with turkey and roast beef.
She selected lasagna from a menu that also offered roast beef and tuna casserole.
Miss Taylor, who turns 57 Monday, received America's Hope Award during a tribute and roast Thursday at the Bob Hope Cultural Center in Palm Desert, an affluent desert resort 120 miles east of Los Angeles.
Much better than roast pork," said one visiting journalist.
"This is rather strange when you think a year ago I was in prison," Onyszkiewicz said after dining on minted cantaloupe soup and roast tenderloin of beef.
He is chewing a roast beef sandwich delivered by the driver of his white Cadillac limousine, which is idling at the curb.
At one location, the renovated Union Station, homeless people lined up outside for a soup-kitchen meal served by anti-poverty activists while the GOP guests dined on Maryland crab and roast pork.
Bentsen joined in a Democratic roast of the GOP's opposition to legislation that requires giving workers 60 days notice of plant closings or large-scale layoffs.
And if they're hungry, Flower also offers catered foods _ from rolled slices of turkey, ham and roast beef to chilled shrimp and crab legs.
The result: meat similar to sweet roast beef, with a liverlike aftertaste.
Brush the upper parts with more melted butter and roast for 15-20 minutes just as before. Then lift the rack of birds off the roasting tin.
But as more chefs serve roast cod (healthier than frying), it will inevitably make this increasingly scarce fish even more inaccessible.
'Being party chairman for the next two years is infinitely more important than being president of the Board of Trade,' he says. Suddenly he stops eating his salad of roast monkfish tail to give a big wave.
"The most common one is `How do you recommend we roast the turkey to get it picture perfect?"' she said Friday.
Many of the campers enjoyed candlelight dinners inside their motor homes while others gathered around hibachis outside to roast hot dogs and hamburgers by lantern light.
Splurging today consists of people spending an average 10% more for takeout dinners of pot roast and mashed potatoes from Rosie's Kitchen in Wilmette, Ill. And people are insisting on bargains.
Fast Fajitas: Heat bite-size strips of fully cooked turkey or cooked roast beef in microwave for 1 minute on 100 percent power (high).
David O'Sullivan, the coordinator of the soup kitchen, said he left 120 pounds of frozen, cajun-style roast beef in a locked storeroom, thawing for Tuesday's lunch.
"If you think I'm going to roast him in front of 2,500 people, when he can roast me next year in front of 8 million, you're crazy," he said.
"If you think I'm going to roast him in front of 2,500 people, when he can roast me next year in front of 8 million, you're crazy," he said.
The roast of global warming, or the judgment of a new ice age, the climatological fear of only a decade ago.
Retail coffee prices had climbed an average of 43 cents a pound, or about 16 percent, from May 1988 to May 1989 _ or from $2.73 cents per pound of ground roast to $3.16 a pound, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The roast sea bass was fine, but the cod portion was small - even for our recessionary times.
In Britain, one roast duck and four diners may cause the carver to panic.
The switch from fast-food hamburgers to roast beef sandwiches shouldn't be too difficult _ Hope has no fast-food restaurants.
The chef himself admitted, "I overcooked my roast."
As Garrison writes, it is not always the food but the emotions it elicits: "Once upon a time, a plump roast chicken for Sunday dinner was the ultimate symbol of prosperity and well-being in America.