Sunday roast cook off

aurora_borealis_2

blackberry, raspberry, bananas and honey.

Super quick

jobbingmusician

Mmmmmmmmmmm - looks gorgeous.

I've just had a very naughty non-OS pud today - Waitrose fresh custard (on special offer) with cherry pie. (Note the order. That custard really is to die for!)

hazzie123

aurora_borealis wrote:

blackberry, raspberry, bananas and honey.

Super quick

That looks gorgeous,I`m jealous,all I`ve got is a chocolate cornflake cake!

I feel so deprived.lol.:rotfl:

Loop

YUM!

Left over's get put into 2 plates for the kids to have for dinner tommorow (one narly 2 and the other nearly 5) and the remaining lamb in my sandwich at lunchtime! The scraps to the doggie of course!

dzdoris

Hello peeps

Sorry to butt in, I've been watching this thread like a hawk and all your dinners look fab!! I've never been one for making Sunday dinners. I have made a couple recently but what I struggle with is timings. When do you put each item in and keep everything else warm (if you see what I mean?) i.e Roast first, potatoes second? Yorkshires third then how do you keep everything else warm

Thanks in advance!

jobbingmusician

YOu put the roasties in with the roast (there was a debate about whether to bother to parboil the roasties or not). Yorkies take about 15 mins at the end. Personally, I set the timer for half an hour shorter than the meat takes, turn the roasties at this point and do the veggies and Yorkies when the timer goes off. (If you have made a crumble, the favourite pud in this house, you put the topping on and shove it in the oven when the timer goes off, then start the veggies - oooo, having previously prepared your Yorkie batter!)

HTH - JM x

dzdoris

Thank you :T

So the roast potatoes are still in the oven whilst cooking the Yorkshires? Cos I thought Yorkshires (I've never made them before) had to be done on a really high temp??

mistresslenore

10/10 for those yorkshires, what's your secret?

jobbingmusician

dzdoris wrote:

Thank you :T

So the roast potatoes are still in the oven whilst cooking the Yorkshires? Cos I thought Yorkshires (I've never made them before) had to be done on a really high temp??

I think the secret for YOrkies is that the PAN is really hot before you put them in, rather than the oven being really hot. But I'll stick around and see if anyone else has anything to contribute to this, as some of the Yorkies posted here have been world class! :rolleyes:

Jay-Jay_4

dzdoris wrote:

Thank you :T

So the roast potatoes are still in the oven whilst cooking the Yorkshires? Cos I thought Yorkshires (I've never made them before) had to be done on a really high temp??

You can split a roast dinner into two.... microwavable stuff and non microwavable stuff If it's your first go don't worry too much about timings, better to practice and get some confidence first. Most stuff can be re-heated in the micro if your timings are out, the only things that suffer in the micro are roast spuds and yorkshire puds. Roast spuds can be re crisped in the oven but yorkies really need to be done last.

So your veg can be ready anytime, it can be re-heated.

Your roast needs time to rest, ten minutes to three quarters of an hour with tin foil over it is perfect.

Your spuds can be re-crisped on the hottest ovensetting (top shelf) while you serve up.

Plan your yorkies to be ready last.


Just give yourself plenty of time, plan three hours to mess around in your kitchen the first time you do a roast. Don't worry, it's hard to make a roast taste bad and over several years you will evolve your very own roast dinner that will become your family's favourite.