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

victory

If we have a roast it is in the week, carvery for the actual sunday I prefer to spend time with the family at the weekend and a sunday roast always takes up loads of time, we never ate it at lunch always for dinner but for £8.99 choice of 4 meats and as many veg and roasties as your heart desires if there is a need for a roast on a sunday we cheat and go out for it, having said that the last time was a good few months ago, never in the summer too heavy:D

Gillyx

DUKE wrote: »

I really am exceptional! :eek: I do as many as 3 a week sometimes - honest! I love them, it's what I call proper food. I love to cook if in the mood, although pizza & burgers have their place & I eat those too sometimes. I find it quite easy to chuck a joint or chicken in the oven .... Of course there is the washing up but I don't do it

So what do people cook & eat then if not a roast dinner or just a dinner with meat, pot, & veg?

fajitas, curry, pasta, pizza, stir fry. Meat and 2 veg dinners are my least favourite

indesisiv

I knock some variation on the sunday lunch together a couple of times a week. As it is just me that i am cooking for its as easy as cooking anything else from scratch to be fair. Although i will normally just knock together a big yorkhire pudding and just pile everthing inside it with loads of gravy!!
I love yorkshire puddings so this always seems to make it onto my I'm going to cook it today list. Like with most cooking the trick is to wash as you go along then you don't have loads of pots to do afterwards.

lostinrates

DUKE wrote: »

I really am exceptional! :eek: I do as many as 3 a week sometimes - honest! I love them, it's what I call proper food. I love to cook if in the mood, although pizza & burgers have their place & I eat those too sometimes. I find it quite easy to chuck a joint or chicken in the oven .... Of course there is the washing up but I don't do it

So what do people cook & eat then if not a roast dinner or just a dinner with meat, pot, & veg?

Yesterday we did actually have homemade pizza (with pesto and courgettes and mozzarella) and hm tomato soup and leftover blackberry tart from the day before.

The day before we had....um...trying to remember, um.......oh yes, an whole wheat pasta thing (my DH is Italian). Day before that we had an amazing ly good supper that was very simple with turkey, walnuts, treacle and lemon juice, served with wild rice, pak choi, carrots. That's been my favorite meal for a while actually, very simple but delicious.

We eat lots of vegetarian food and some meat and two veg,..just not traditional British roasts that often. I wouldn't like anything we ate every week tbh! I get bored of things we see every month! (Apart froma few things....)

We're far more likely to go mad on an ingredient for a while then not eat it again for ages. We're quite seasonal eaters generally. Not exclusively. I had a terrible craving for Brussels sprouts early in summer.

BugglyB

Gillyx wrote: »

fajitas, curry, pasta, pizza, stir fry. Meat and 2 veg dinners are my least favourite

I do think that a roast doesn't have to be 'bland'.

Last roast I made I also did cumin and almond roast cauliflower. Other spicy things can be chilli and bacon cabbage or sprouts, paprika parsnip, ginger swede, garlic mash, etc. Usually there is some hint of spice in our roast dinners.

Amanda65

I cook a roast every Sunday, or we go to my Mum's for one. It's a big thing for us, although I tend to cook in the evening as well, and there's a bit of a three line whip for the kids if they're not away (22, 20 and 17). Anyone is welcome to join us (by which I mean their friends, not an open invitation to you lot ) as long as I have notice.

I try and rotate the meat between beef, pork, chicken and lamb (often bought when on offer, from Costco or when yellow stickered and frozen), roast tatties and at least three veg out of a selection of greens, broccoli, peas, cauli cheese, carrots, swede and carrot and runners. I like to make really tasty gravy with meat juices and veg water and in our house Yorkshires are only ever eaten with beef!

liney

I cook a roast most Sundays. We eat it at 6pm ish. I find this works because I am able to be out and do whatever needs doing, and then as long as I am home by 4pm I can get the meat in the oven.

shegirl

Almost every weekend throughout the year.I'd be in serious trouble with ds if I didn't!

hgotsparkle

I try to do one most sundays, but if I'm working a sunday and OH is out then I won't or if the weathers nice then its too warm for one.

peachyprice

lostinrates wrote: »

Roast AND mash? :eek: We'd never move again I think!

I don't get that either. Is it a regional thing?