A roast Sunday lunch...how many still cook one?

bubbs

I have always wondered why people dont have a roast on a Sunday, We have one everyweek but usually in the evenings. There is only me and DH but then there has only ever been the 2 of us.
My mum always cooked a roast 1.15pm we sat down every single Sunday to me its just odd not to have a roast on Sunday

downshifted

We usually have a roast on a Sunday - but only at lunchtimes on cold days in the winter when there is less you can do - the rest of the time we eat it in the early evenings

notanewuser

Only if we have guests. There's no point just for DH and DD. if we fancy a roast dinner we just go out for one. That way when we do dinners when we have guests I can go really over the top. :-)

notanewuser

bubbs wrote: »

I have always wondered why people dont have a roast on a Sunday, We have one everyweek but usually in the evenings. There is only me and DH but then there has only ever been the 2 of us.
My mum always cooked a roast 1.15pm we sat down every single Sunday to me its just odd not to have a roast on Sunday

We never had a roast growing up. Hence it's a special occasion when I do now.

ka7e

I roast unless it is really warm outside, then I often cook a chicken in the morning to have cold at tea time. We always eat at 6pm ish.

Roast chicken or pork (stir fry on Mondays!), or occasionally beef or lamb (Shepherd's/cottage pie with leftovers). Roast pots and parsnips, fresh carrots and a selection of seasonal and frozen veg - usually 3 or 4. Yorkies with everything. Cheese sauce if I'm serving leeks or cauli. Made from scratch gravy.

Years ago in Home Economics (that'll date me) we had to produce "meal plans" which were a timeline to make sure everything was ready to serve at the same time. I still work back from a theoretical serving time to put on the pots, veg etc! And I couldn't do it all without my huge pressure cooker for potatoes (4 mins) and veg (2 mins), leaving lovely concentrated vegetable water for the gravy.

bubbs

EmmaBridgewater wrote: »

We have Sunday lunch each week in my household (family home) but in my personal home with oh we don't. It's a lot for two people but would def start up again if we start a family.

notanewuser wrote: »

Only if we have guests. There's no point just for DH and DD. if we fancy a roast dinner we just go out for one. That way when we do dinners when we have guests I can go really over the top. :-)

Dont know if its just me but if yor cooking a meal a roast is no more work, this is what i dont get:cool: i only cook for 2 and unless guests its always been 2

meritaten

a lot of work to cook? what's complicated about it? you put meat in the oven and veg on later and make some gravy! I still do a roast most weekends and sometimes midweek. and the washing up? depends on whether you think the roast dinner is worth washing up a few pans. but, as most people have dishwashers now - how hard can it be?

lostinrates

bubbs wrote: »

I have always wondered why people dont have a roast on a Sunday, We have one everyweek but usually in the evenings. There is only me and DH but then there has only ever been the 2 of us.
My mum always cooked a roast 1.15pm we sat down every single Sunday to me its just odd not to have a roast on Sunday

To me it seems odd to wonder why others wouldn't have it every week...


There are so many wonderful things in the world to eat we'll never try them all, but why eat the same thing the same way at least 52 days of the year? That's one of the things that surprises me about people not choosing one or two carbs, for example, but rather having so many at each roast meal....why not have some variety?

Even with our Christmas lunch last year....I'm not well and there were only three of us, and I said I wanted to cut some of our traditions....despite much fretting I did. We still had left overs( the best bits IMO) we had some of the edited bits as separately cooked things for festive meals. And it was fresher, cleaner, and, much to everyone's reluctance to admit, including mine, BETTER for the edit.

I'd often rather try something new, saving something familiar for other times.

notanewuser

lostinrates wrote: »

To me it seems odd to wonder why others wouldn't have it every week...


There are so many wonderful things in the world to eat we'll never try them all, but why eat the same thing the same way at least 52 days of the year? That's one of the things that surprises me about people not choosing one or two carbs, for example, but rather having so many at each roast meal....why not have some variety?

Even with our Christmas lunch last year....I'm not well and there were only three of us, and I said I wanted to cut some of our traditions....despite much fretting I did. We still had left overs( the best bits IMO) we had some of the edited bits as separately cooked things for festive meals. And it was fresher, cleaner, and, much to everyone's reluctance to admit, including mine, BETTER for the edit.

I'd often rather try something new, saving something familiar for other times.

We had fish pie on Xmas day last year.

bubbs

I dont even have a dish washer only dh:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: thats what i mean you use pots and pans no matter what unless you have ping meals and we dont here:p