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

ciderwithrosie_2

meritaten wrote: »

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?

I've always thought doing a full English cooked breakfast more faff than a roast dinner, cos there's lots of things that don't take long but can easily overcook/burn if you take your eye off the ball.

Sequeena

I have to admit they are a rarity in our house but I did have one every week as a child.

aeb_2

Roast for us every Sunday. If I haven't cooked a roast on Sunday I really miss the remainder for a quick meal on Monday, Tuesday and sometimes even stretching to Wednesday when time is much more precious after school and before bedtime.

I grow my own as much as possible and it's a tradition for us all to go round the garden and pick the veg and fruit we will prepare and eat for lunch.

Yesterday we picked beans, courgettes and an onion, dug carrots and potatoes, snipped mint and thyme and for afters windfall apples and blackberries all served with shoulder of lamb followed by a crumble.

The oven only goes on once a week in summer so when the meat is cooking the weeks baking fills the other shelves e.g. scones, jam tarts, buns, etc. These are prepared around 6 am before my 'helpers' are up.

This_Year

ka7e wrote: »

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!.

I do the same, except I was taught to do that in Food & Nutrition.

Seem to remember we also had to cost it out in the planning too as we were working to a theoretical budget and were marked accordingly.

anniemf2508

During the summer months i tend to avoid doing one as my kitchen is tiny and gets extremely hot with the oven on for too long. The rest of the year tho, we have one most weeks, might not be on a Sunday tho as it depends on everyones schedules.

FatVonD

I used to always cook a Sunday roast (it's one of my favourite meals to cook) but DH is a right fussypants about food and has 'gone off' roast dinners (he's announced he will be having curry for Christmas lunch this year which will be interesting as he's gone off curry too :rotfl: ) so I probably only do it about once or twice a month now as DS and I both love it.

I'm very impressed at people making their own gravy though, I've never tried. I will have a proper read up at work later and give it a go.

pukkamum wrote: »

We always have the top 40 playing in the background.

I love this idea, I may borrow it!

LEJC

actually the comment over the top 40 reminded me that again back in the days of growing up...it was always something we listened to on a Sunday evening ...then once it finished it was bathtime...books ready for school and bed!

...and if we missed the top 40 on a sunday evening it was repeated again in the breakfast show on monday morning whilst getting ready for school.

I guess that might have been true of a lot of households in the 70's mainly because there wasnt any breakfast tv which is what tends to be on in the background now whilst we get ready each morning

Happy Days!

katrina001

I do , every sunday. I love it! I have on average 10 of us for sunday roast

securityguy

double_mummy wrote: »

i do have to admit to buying frozen yorkies mine just never come out right no matter what i do!

People seem reluctant to use a hot enough oven.

Make the batter (I use 5oz flour, half a pint of milk and an egg). Take the meat out to rest, then whack the oven up to maximum heat. Put in a muffin pan with a bit of dripping in each hole. Heat it all until it's smoking hot. Quickly pour in the batter, put it back in the over, shut the door and don't open it for fifteen minutes. Either leave then potatoes in the oven, or don't, depending on how you like them.

kittendothroar

Its only me and the OH at home, and I work 3/4 Sundays. Don't think I've ever cooked one since being together (nearly a year!)

But I did buy a pork shoulder joint in M's cheaply the other day so may just happen this weekend!