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

double_mummy

once or twice a month do a joint with potatoes two veg yorkies gravy bread sauce and apple or mint sauce depending on the meat

the kids love them and it gives me a chance to do some cooking with the kids and just have some nice chatting time with them whilst teaching them some essential life skills my 6 year old learnt to make a becheamel sp? sauce the other day how to prepare veggies etc

big baby helps with prep and usually do cupcakes or something puddingy with the 3 year old

we use it to help our kids learn time - okay this went in the oven at 4pm it takes 30 minutes to cook when do we need to take it out? measuring things - i need 100g of flour safety- being safe around the oven and hob turning pan handles to the back so you dont accidentally knock them off we do reading - reading recipes and instructions maths okay this makes enough for 8 but there are only 4 people here how much do i need science - reactions between food when heated or cooled - where does this animal come from how does this veggie grow etc

all very good learning tools with just a roast

hubby gets to wash up with the big one helping (more life skills) and the whole day becomes a family day rather than i am cooking a roast and hubby is cleaning up

VICSH

We have one most weeks but again in the evening so it doesnt break the day up too much. Whatever we have left meat wise is used for dinners in the week so although it takes some time I do think it as a time saver during the week when I am rushing around a lot more.

securityguy

*We had a roast with all the trimmings followed by a homemade dessert...very nice ...*

I do that every week (well, for dinner rather than lunch). Quick and easy to do, then sling it all in the dishwasher afterwards. What's so time-consuming about it? An apple crumble or something takes five minutes to make, yorkshire pudding takes five minutes, roast potatoes take five minutes, other veg maybe another ten. The rest of the time it just sits in the oven while you do something else. I can buy an argument based on cost (decent beef, in particularly, is savagely expensive, although pork is very cheap at the moment) but I really can't buy an argument based on effort or difficulty.

VICSH

double_mummy wrote: »

once or twice a month do a joint with potatoes two veg yorkies gravy bread sauce and apple or mint sauce depending on the meat

the kids love them and it gives me a chance to do some cooking with the kids and just have some nice chatting time with them whilst teaching them some essential life skills my 6 year old learnt to make a becheamel sp? sauce the other day how to prepare veggies etc

big baby helps with prep and usually do cupcakes or something puddingy with the 3 year old

we use it to help our kids learn time - okay this went in the oven at 4pm it takes 30 minutes to cook when do we need to take it out? measuring things - i need 100g of flour safety- being safe around the oven and hob turning pan handles to the back so you dont accidentally knock them off we do reading - reading recipes and instructions maths okay this makes enough for 8 but there are only 4 people here how much do i need science - reactions between food when heated or cooled - where does this animal come from how does this veggie grow etc

all very good learning tools with just a roast

hubby gets to wash up with the big one helping (more life skills) and the whole day becomes a family day rather than i am cooking a roast and hubby is cleaning up

I do exactly the same with DS and he loves his special Sunday time with Mummy (while daddy watching the football)..

Gillyx

Once a fortnight usually. We too have it as our main meal of the day so around 5pm, I can't eat a massive meal before then.

I usually do a home made pudding too, usually a crumble or pie with home made custard.

We didn't have one yesterday, had cottage pie, so I will do one next Sunday.

peachyprice

I do one every Sunday at dinner time, not lunchtime, that would waste the whole day.

But TBH, I can't see that it's much work at all, you just bung the meat and tatties in the oven, steam some veg and it's done. OH bungs the washing up in the dishwasher afterwards.

I find other meals far more labour intensive.

LEJC

I think the thing is that I really do remember my mum cooking a sunday roast every week....and as such I've probably got to an age where I feel a bit sad that perhaps my children are not going to havethe view that their mum was a "domestic goddess" in the kitchen!!!!!!!!!!!

I have the greatest of respect for what mum achieved every week ...it was a roast with several veggies and real roasties homemade yorkshires and always a homemade dessert....I think at the time I just ate it and enjoyed it....but now as ive got older the real appreciation of what she did each week has dawned on me.

We often have a midweek meat dinner with gravy and something "aunt bessie..ish"...followed by a bought in pud...but to be honest its not quite the same as the Sunday one!

I do love to cook...and we have a lot of home made so its not that I try and shirk the issue of a sunday lunch....its just that our busy weekend lives mean that we probably dont get the opportunity to indulge in a lunch as often as I would like.

Things seemed so much easier as a child when a lovely plate of food was dished up each week..

peachyprice

LEJC wrote: »

I think the thing is that I really do remember my mum cooking a sunday roast every week....and as such I've probably got to an age where I feel a bit sad that perhaps my children are not going to havethe view that their mum was a "domestic goddess" in the kitchen!!!!!!!!!!!

I have the greatest of respect for what mum achieved every week ...it was a roast with several veggies and real roasties homemade yorkshires and always a homemade dessert....I think at the time I just ate it and enjoyed it....but now as ive got older the real appreciation of what she did each week has dawned on me.

We often have a midweek meat dinner with gravy and something "aunt bessie..ish"...followed by a bought in pud...but to be honest its not quite the same as the Sunday one!

I do love to cook...and we have a lot of home made so its not that I try and shirk the issue of a sunday lunch....its just that our busy weekend lives mean that we probably dont get the opportunity to indulge in a lunch as often as I would like.

Things seemed so much easier as a child when a lovely plate of food was dished up each week..

Try it at dinner time instead then. I put mine on about 5pm serve it at 7-7.30.

balletshoes

peachyprice wrote: »

I do one every Sunday at dinner time, not lunchtime, that would waste the whole day.

But TBH, I can't see that it's much work at all, you just bung the meat and tatties in the oven, steam some veg and it's done. OH bungs the washing up in the dishwasher afterwards.

I find other meals far more labour intensive.

I was obviously doing it wrong - I seemed to use every pot, pan and utensil in the house when I made my roast dinner :rotfl:.

Serendipitious

Had one yesterday at DD's house and it was really good, roast chicken, roast potatoes and lots of vegetables. Nice to be with the family too and played lots of games with grandchildren. I really should cook one at home more often and invite them here, but Sunday is usually a work day for me, so it would have to be a Saturday and they are usually timetabled out then with kid's activities like swimming and parties.

Seems to me the essence of the Sunday roast is about good quality family time as well as the food. I am grateful for yesterday.