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

tea_lover

Roast and mash is essential in our house! Just wouldn't be a proper roast without both

LEJC

I continue to remain very impressed with the number of people who admit to regularly cooking a sunday roast....I really didnt expect quite so many to own up to cooking them...

I did wonder if it was going to be a generation/age thing with the more mature of repondants cooking and the younger generation being the ones not to cook...which has been bourne out a little by a few admitting to using a roast dinner as an excuse to visit the parents...

I also wondered if those with full time jobs felt that the weekend was just too short to spend it cooking....preferring to do other pursuits in their down time...or take the easy option of the pub lunch!

On the odd occaision that ive shopped in asda on a sunday morning,the deli and cooked chicken counter always seems very busy...no one seems to have owned up to perhaps obtaining their sunday lunch that way yet....

BugglyB

Unless its really expensive I usually find a pub sunday lunch disappointing. I like a really hot plate and homemade gravy and I hate microwaved/overcooked veg.

DUKE

tea_lover wrote: »

Roast and mash is essential in our house! Just wouldn't be a proper roast without both

I used to do both but I must admit that I've ditched the mash & now just sling some potatoes & carotts in with the meat, then there's only the other veg to pop on & any yorkies or stuffing to throw in, oh & it's aaaaall in the gravy

krok

The excitment of preparing the joint the night before with herbs and onions.

The magic of cutting all those vegetables into all kinds of shapes.

The looking forward to loads of relatives coming round to sample your hard work.

Sod it, i think i will go down the pub next sunday.

atarisrocks

i very rarely have one as i find the meat is usually too expensive for just 2 of us. we also have a very tiny electric oven that just about fits a chicken in that seems to burn stuff on the outside and keep it raw on the inside.

we usually have one if late saturday night we can get a ready cooked chicken from the local supermarket and paying maybe 30p-£1 for a whole chicken and then just reheat it sunday with all the veg

DUKE

LEJC wrote: »

I continue to remain very impressed with the number of people who admit to regularly cooking a sunday roast....I really didnt expect quite so many to own up to cooking them...

I did wonder if it was going to be a generation/age thing with the more mature of repondants cooking and the younger generation being the ones not to cook...which has been bourne out a little by a few admitting to using a roast dinner as an excuse to visit the parents...

I also wondered if those with full time jobs felt that the weekend was just too short to spend it cooking....preferring to do other pursuits in their down time...or take the easy option of the pub lunch!

On the odd occaision that ive shopped in asda on a sunday morning,the deli and cooked chicken counter always seems very busy...no one seems to have owned up to perhaps obtaining their sunday lunch that way yet....

I thought it could be a generation thing too as I know of younger people who just eat pizza, burgers, pot noodle .... & they don't even buy these things from the supermarket, they eat out :eek: I could never afford it. I've always cooked no matter what, although I do need hospital treatment (not through cooking roast dinners ) regularly, so if I've just had an op I leave off the cooking & do the pizza, pasta ... thing with pleasure. Or his baked beans on toast :rotfl: When I worked from 6am-6pm I would still cook. I'm worth it :-D

alleycat`

Tends to be a time of year thing.
More so when it is cold, less so in the summer months.
I suspect roasts will be coming back into play in the next month or 2.

lostinrates

LEJC wrote: »

I continue to remain very impressed with the number of people who admit to regularly cooking a sunday roast....I really didnt expect quite so many to own up to cooking them...

I did wonder if it was going to be a generation/age thing with the more mature of repondants cooking and the younger generation being the ones not to cook...which has been bourne out a little by a few admitting to using a roast dinner as an excuse to visit the parents...

I also wondered if those with full time jobs felt that the weekend was just too short to spend it cooking....preferring to do other pursuits in their down time...or take the easy option of the pub lunch!

On the odd occaision that ive shopped in asda on a sunday morning,the deli and cooked chicken counter always seems very busy...no one seems to have owned up to perhaps obtaining their sunday lunch that way yet....

We're in our mid thirties and I'd consider us 'foodies'. We love to cook, we just like to cook other stuff. We don't have a microwave, we have a freezer we call 'the panic room' its so large, but its for fruit and veg not pre prepped meals. I'm passionate about food being the building blocks of health.

Ironic that I am currently sitting in hospital waiting for my gasteroenterology appointment, lol.

peachyprice

LEJC wrote: »

On the odd occaision that ive shopped in asda on a sunday morning,the deli and cooked chicken counter always seems very busy...no one seems to have owned up to perhaps obtaining their sunday lunch that way yet....

I did that in the summer when it was too hot to cook and had it later in the day with salad, potato salad etc.