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

Bella73

Most weeks in the autumn/winter but not so many in the summer. I too don't really understand what is so hard. It's one of the easier meals to cook in my opinion but hey oh we are all different.

lostinrates

notanewuser wrote: »

We had fish pie on Xmas day last year.

:rotfl:

My (Italian Jewish) Christmas loving DH would slaughter me. Goose all the way here. We have turkey for thanksgiving ( we both have American connections) but we don't usually get to be together for actual thanksgiving so its the weekend afterwards. DH has terrible thanks giving at work on the Thursday then decent thanksgiving at home at the weekend.

notanewuser

Bella73 wrote: »

Most weeks in the autumn/winter but not so many in the summer. I too don't really understand what is so hard. It's one of the easier meals to cook in my opinion but hey oh we are all different.

I'm veggie, so a roast offers little of interest to me.

DH is only home for about 44 hours a week, so I don't want to spend any longer in the kitchen than I absolutely have to. DH isn't here for the rest of the week to eat any leftovers. A joint for an adult and a 2 year old is a steak.

If we have guests I do go to town on a roast. The milk for cauliflower cheese gets flavoured with onion, bayleaf and peppercorns. Crackling gets cracked, yorkshire puddings are made from scratch, spuds get steamed, shaken and roasted. I don't go for half measures.

We'd much rather have a trip out and some sausage, mash and onion gravy than spend all day waiting for a roast.

notanewuser

lostinrates wrote: »

:rotfl:

My (Italian Jewish) Christmas loving DH would slaughter me. Goose all the way here. We have turkey for thanksgiving ( we both have American connections) but we don't usually get to be together for actual thanksgiving so its the weekend afterwards. DH has terrible thanks giving at work on the Thursday then decent thanksgiving at home at the weekend.

We have our family winter meal on another day. Sometimes in June! My sister works in the emergency services so rarely gets xmas off. So we pick a different day and I do turkey, gammon and something special for me, and then roast spuds, gravy and 17 different kinds of veg and 3 or 4 pudding choices. I need a year off after that!!

mgdavid

lostinrates wrote: »

..... why eat the same thing the same way at least 52 days of the year?........

we have roast every weekend we are at home, but never the same twice running. Leg of lamb, shoulder of lamb, pork, beef, chicken, turkey, venison, duck - peas / runner beans / broad beans / cauliflower / spinach / white cabbage / dark cabbage / curly kale / mange tout / french beans / sugarsnap peas / carrots / parsnips / leeks / potatoes / sweet potato / roast peppers & onions, SO much to choose from, perm the above and I reckon we don't repeat within a twelvemonth. And Yorkshire puds and gravy :drool: and even the little grandsons simply love it all, most rewarding :-)

silverwhistle

I rarely do a Sunday roast for two reasons. One I live on my own, and two I play football Sunday afternoons so for me it's a 100 grams of pasta with a light sauce at around 11.45!

When I do do a small roast I often have a free-range chicken as that then does a number of different meals during the week: chicken stock, risotto, curry, soup and so forth.

To be honest the biggets issue with a roast meal is selecting the ingredients and then getting the timings right...

lostinrates

mgdavid wrote: »

we have roast every weekend we are at home, but never the same twice running. Leg of lamb, shoulder of lamb, pork, beef, chicken, turkey, venison, duck - peas / runner beans / broad beans / cauliflower / spinach / white cabbage / dark cabbage / curly kale / mange tout / french beans / sugarsnap peas / carrots / parsnips / leeks / potatoes / sweet potato / roast peppers & onions, SO much to choose from, perm the above and I reckon we don't repeat within a twelvemonth. And Yorkshire puds and gravy :drool: and even the little grandsons simply love it all, most rewarding :-)

Yes, that's wonderful....but people are talking about the same veg, and more than one type of potato at every meal! Variety would make it far more interesting....and more like we eat,....

But....for example....we also 'roast' meat often, in the dort of variety you list, in respective season....( but we do have it more than once because we tennd to buy half or whole small farm animals, shares of a beef cow and game is gifted or gotten....) but ...we don't do a 'roast'. Game birds are lovely with rice and veg, ( unless they are pheasant when any way but roast is preferable IMO...not that keen). We also like to use that meat in 'non British' ways. Or in ways beyond 'roast.

It doesn't mean one is right and one wrong....I'm simply saying not doing a British roast doesn't mean 'not like Sunday ' for everyone. Or 'not cooking' or any thing like that. Its lovely for those of you who do, I'm not knocking that( apart from the carb fest thing which to me Is more gourmand than gourmet...but if it makes people happy and they are healthy I don't have a problem with other people doing it!)

jakes-mum

Ummm, I make a roast dinner 4 times a week , we have one every Sunday but in the evening as I found they always sat too heavy on the stomach when made for lunch, I then have another on the Monday with left over meat (kids and DH have curry if it was chicken or lasagne/tacos if it was beef or lamb), then I have one Wednesday and Friday while the kids and DH have whatever.

I know it seems a bit strange to have roast dinner that often, and to make 2 different dinners 3 times a week (sometimes 3 different dinners as ds is a coeliac) but I've got a lot of issues with my stomach and can only eat 3 different meals so it kind of limits your options :rotfl: good job I love a roast

Funky_Bold_Ribena

notanewuser wrote: »

I'm veggie, so a roast offers little of interest to me.

We'd much rather have a trip out and some sausage, mash and onion gravy than spend all day waiting for a roast.

Me too but I love my roasty dinners; we have one most Sundays at 7pm. ish.

As there is no meat I have mine down to an hour and all done in one roasty tray and one veg saucepan which then is used for the gravy. Love it.

Addiscomber

Another one in the most weeks during autumn and winter here, but for evening meal so that it doesn't break up the day. I used to do myself a roast most weeks when I lived on my own, too, I used the leftovers for packed lunches or evening meals during the week.

I have never forgotten walking by some beach huts one Sunday lunchtime whilst we were on holiday, and some poor elderly woman was serving up a full roast dinner, presumably having juggled pans about on a miniature cooker thing. Her husband was sitting in state just outside, being waited on hand and foot. I really felt for her - it was a hot day and there was a definite feeling of 'It's Sunday so we have to have Sunday Lunch' come what may.