The word 'roast' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a type of meal such as roasted chicken or vegetables, a type of cooking where food is cooked by dry heat, or a satirical event (i.e. roast of a celebrity). For example: "Last night I enjoyed a delicious roast chicken with potatoes and carrots."
Tucked away under ancient arches just by the bustling San Bartolomeo square, the Rosticceria is basically an old-fashioned self-service cafeteria, dishing up excellent and inexpensive comfort food - a "primo" for €6, followed by roast chicken, or "baccala mantecato", the traditional creamy salt cod.
Give everyone slices of toast, a head each of roast garlic and some cream cheese or goat's curd, and let each person squeeze out the puree from the cloves to spread on their toast; a simple watercress and shallot salad would be good alongside.
Baste with the liquid for a minute or two, cover with foil and roast for 25-30 minutes, by which time the meat will have cooked to a rosy pink.
Catarina's tip: Pont'a Pé (+351 282 998 104, pontape.pt) restaurant next to the river in the historic part of Aljezur, serves some of the best traditional dishes, such as clams in white wine and coriander, grilled fresh fish and roast lamb.
The range of flavours has expanded to more than 8,000 and now includes roast beef, unicorn milk and vagina mist.
Backstage at the Bowery Ballroom, in New York's Lower East Side, beside a table containing a hacked-into roast chicken, carrot batons, hummus, bottles of wine and vodka, "but wraps, no bread, it makes me fat", John Newman is also digesting the news that his single Love Me Again is at No 20 and first album, Tribute, at No 2 in the American iTunes charts.
All our green coffee beans are shipped directly from the farmers we work with around the world, and then we roast them and send them out straight away so they are as fresh as they can be.
Sprinkle them with a little salt and leave to drain in a colander over the sink or on the draining board for at least half an hour, to draw out any excess water. 2 Preheat the oven to 220C/425F/gas mark 7. When the aubergines are drained, toss them in the vegetable oil and roast in the oven for 30-40 minuntil unthe the aubergines are completely soft and a tempting golden on the outside.
The event, which combines a pork roast with a motorcycle ride (along with plenty of political speeches) is the Republican answer to the long running Harkin Steak Fry, held by Ernst's Iowan predecessor in the Senate, Tom Harkin, which featured steaks and Democratic presidential hopefuls.
Espadafor's local fame doesn't stem from its beautiful 1910 Andalus-tiled interior swathed in posters of bullfights and fiestas, but from its mouth-watering roast ham - usually served as a primero (first) plate.
The Conservatives' luxurious menu of three bird roast and Eton mess washed down with champers, and Labour's "poncified pub food": sausage en croute accompanied by craft beer from a north London micro brewery, spoke to long-standing and vivid reputations that a few weeks won't shift.
