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

happy35

i make a roast dinner every week, we also sometimes have one during the week

I find a roast dinner really quick and quite easy compared to some other things I make. Yorkshire puds are HM, through the week I make the batter the night before and leave in the fridge. I tend to do a joint on a sunday but may do chops or chicken legs through the week if no one is home earlier to put meat in the oven.

hamsterfan1

we have roast about once a month - there's only two of us & it's easier to make a stew

peachyprice

Nice shoulder of lamb for us tomorrow, yuuuum.

meritaten

Shoulder of pork tomorrow - been given some lovely cooking apples so lots of home-made apple sauce with it! freezer full of freebie veg from garden up mums (she doesn't garden - we do!) but will send OH up to pick runner beans.
hungry now!

thorsoak

The world has changed such a lot since my mother and mother in law cooked a Sunday lunch every week!

I remember that my MIL would peel the potatoes, prepare the veggies, make the batter for her yorkshire puddings, pop the meat in the oven - and then go to church for 11 o'clock service. She'd be fretting if the service went on over an hour because she would want to be putting the roasties in and make the apple pie for pudding!

As she came in, FIL would be putting his coat on, to go to the pub for his Sunday pint - but would be back on the dot for 1.15 as everything would be on the table then - every Sunday, every week for as long as I knew them - whether there would only be the two of them or whether we were there with our 4 offspring.

In my childhood home, I remember being sent down the garden to pick the sprouts for Sunday dinner (I hated that when it was a cold wet Sunday morning) and my mum getting into a muck sweat to get everything in the oven and on the table in time for Two Way Family Favourites on the radio!

I've been known to cook a Sunday roast on many occasions - but never for lunchtime - always more like teatime - but there again, there were so many demands on the family car on a Sunday morning - No 1 son to rugby in one direction, DD horseriding in another, DD2 rugby somewhere else and DD3 mini rugby at the rugby club - so easier to go to MIL's for Sunday lunch.

VictoriaBlyth

Sounds lovely Meritan:T
I cook Sunday 'dinner' every week. Sometimes kids come, or in laws, but even if it is just for the two of us, I think it's just as easy (if not easier) than cooking anything else;)

Tomorrow we shall be having beef, Yorkies, roast pots, swede and cabbage mash and apple pie and custard. If it is just the two of us, we have second helpings on Monday, or (my personal favourite), fryup with lots of brown sauce:T

One effort equals at least two meals, and cost wise, very mse:D

catkins

Just me and OH and we usually have a roast every week but not necessarily on a Sunday and always in the evening.

We are both vegetarian so might make a nut roast, stuffed large mushrooms, vegetable strudel etc. I make my own roast potatoes and yorkshires as I don't like frozen ones, plus at least 4 vegetables.

lovesabargain123

I make a Sunday roast every Sunday that's it's not too warm to eat it. We are very fortunate that we eat at the table as a family everyone night.... I say fortunate, but I'm not sure that's the right word given we have 3 teenagers....

74jax

I'm not vegetarian but could just eat all the veg from a Sunday Roast. Love it.

We make one maybe once a month but go out for Sunday Dinner often. We don't have it at lunch though.

I loved my Sundays when young. Dad would take me to his allotment to pick the veg, oooooo the pressure at pulling up the potatoes to see the size :rotfl: then we would feed the chickens before bringing the veg back to mum.
Dad would then take me to the park for an hour, no more, and we would play on the swings and slide. And then he would take me home whilst he went to the social club and was back home for 1pm when he would carve the roast.

It was totally regimented we never varied from it at all.

ska_lover

OOO last time I did a roast? Christmas day!