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Roast potatoes, cooked in the fat of the roast, till they are crispy. Carrots and onions roasted to caramel. Juicy meat that falls off the bone. Pork crackling!

• lmm 6y ago
  > Roast potatoes, cooked in the fat of the roast, till they are crispy. Carrots and onions roasted to caramel. Roasted vegetables can be nice; boiled vegetables not so much, and those are more closely associated with British tradition. > Juicy meat that falls off the bone. Roasting is the least effective way to achieve this. Dried-out meat is very much the norm, and frankly, burnt meat would be significantly less bad.
• Symbiote 6y ago
  > Now if we're going to talk about leaks. That is British houses. Different topic! But I do like leeks in cheese sauce. Basic recipe: https://www.recipesmadeeasy.co.uk/leeks-in-cheese-sauce/#gallery-1 https://www.recipesmadeeasy.co.uk/leeks-in-cheese-sauce/#gal... Fancy version: https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/cheese-recipes/cheesy-leeks-la-oliver/ https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/cheese-recipes/cheesy-le... I would cook them in the oven with everything else though, and only very slightly brown the top of the cheese. They then make a good contrast to the roast vegetables.
  • 082349872349872 6y ago
    ... and here I'd thought the reference was to british automobiles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24489860 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24489860 (On houses, there is a line in The Xenophobe's Guide to the Swiss about how swiss abhor drafts. According to my father, this observation, albeit made in a book nominally about the swiss, says much more about the british.)