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

building_with_lego

We have one every Sunday too; OH preps all the veg while I lie in then gets the spuds parboiled and into the oven. I then take over with the meat/ stuffing/ Yorkshires/ gravy and dish up at midday :A

It's OH's favourite meal of the week so it is a big thing here plus the children are more likely to try new things then for some reason.

Norma_Desmond

I don't like cooking very much but I usually make a full roast about once a fortnight during the autumn/winter because DH loves them; and not always on a Sunday due to his work shifts.

I make enough to last a few days though - and my elderly mother always has a big plateful to 'take away' and heat and eat bits from at her leisure.

fashionlover10

I very rarely do a roast as it's just me and OH and my kitchen is so small that cooking a roast would stress me out (my oven is smaller than standard too and will fit either the chicken or the spuds in it but not both at once).

Growing up my mum didn't cook one often either but we lived near my grandparents so we'd usually go there for a roast on a Sunday.

Any

I make Sunday roast probably twice a month.
Either beef, chicken or pork.
Yesterday we had pork and last week we had beef. Sometimes it is not full Sunday roast then as there is only 2 of us, so sometimes I will make just half a chicken with roast veg and cous cous instead of roasted potatoes and sometimes morrocan chicken with cous cous..
And I never do a stuffing.

I love roasted root veg and gravy, that is why I keep the tradition ha ha!!

DigForVictory

Being a roundly disorganised soul in the kitchen, the one roast I can count on a year is my husband cooking the Christmas lunch. Beautifully roasted pork with at least 7 veggies and as many trimmings as he has the energy for.
We then collapse & digest for most of the rest of the day.

Some of me thinks I should try, but I woudn't want to take his Festive Feast away from him & the lads.

ttc39

We try and have a roast at least once a month in the summer but 2/3 times a month in autumn and winter.

My parents always did a roast Sunday lunch at 1pm! Never any other time!

Was a great time to sit and enjoy each other's company

Mazzarati2000

I would say that I do one in the evening on a Sunday about 80% of the time we are here. When we're having a weekend visiting my family (various different houses, but all within 1/2 an hour of each other, and 3.5 hours from where we live), my mum will sometimes do one for about 2.30 and we will have one with her, her partner and my Nanna before we travel back.

I make my own Yorkshires, but always seem to make 11 or 12, and in the last few years have taken to freezing the leftover ones, and then using them like 'Aunt Bessie's' the next week, or even to pad out another meal in the week (e.g. Sausage and mash, or stew/casserole.

WestonDave

Tend to do one every week but as an evening meal so it doesn't break up the day and leave you feeling stuffed and sleepy all afternoon. Its quite useful as it means you can cook it around getting on with other things like DIY or playing with the kids. Kids were reluctant for a while but its now back on their favourites list. It also means an easy meal for later in the week when we have cold meat and spuds to use up the meat.

Threebabes

I havent done one over the summer, get too hot and bothered in the kitchen. The last two weekends I have made on though. I love a Sunday Roast, but would love it even more if we were going out or someone else was making it.

balletshoes

I didn't grow up in a house where we had Sunday roast at all.
I have only ever cooked a roast dinner once, it was lovely but a right old faff!

Growing up, if on a Sunday we were all meeting up at a relative's house for dinner, it would be steak pie, or a cooked chicken possibly, or maybe a brisket or mince, with potatoes, veg and gravy.

We usually had similar at Christmas too - its only in very recent years that my Mum has changed the meat to turkey for Christmas day dinner.

Yesterday we had chicken hotpot topped with sliced potatoes.