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

lostinrates

atarisrocks wrote: »

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

Roast meat freezes ok, and can me used throughout the week in other meals, If that's all that's stopping you I'd go for it!

chocoholic_chick

Well I'm late 20's so what age group are you talking about with the whole generation thing? I grew up having home cooked meals and a Sunday roast so to me its just normal. Yes I occasionally buy the odd frozen pizza incase I can't be bothered to cook, but never buy microwave meals ( I don't own a microwave :rotfl:) so the vast majority of meals I cook from scratch. Tonight is going to be a fairly simple chicken pasta bake to use up some of the leftover chicken which will do us both tonight and lunches tomorrow, then with the carcass I'll make a big pan of chicken soup.

With me as well its more me inviting the parents round for Sunday lunch than the other way around, I enjoy cooking for them and giving my mum a day off

balletshoes

peachyprice wrote: »

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

possibly - for example, I never had a home-made yorkshire pudding until I moved to England from Scotland - yorkshires just never made an appearance on roast dinner plates in any of my friends or relatives homes growing up in Scotland.

Don't you have roast tatties and mash on your plate with Christmas roast dinner?

lostinrates

balletshoes wrote: »

possibly - for example, I never had a home-made yorkshire pudding until I moved to England from Scotland - yorkshires just never made an appearance on roast dinner plates in any of my friends or relatives homes growing up in Scotland.

Don't you have roast tatties and mash on your plate with Christmas roast dinner?

Not Yorkshire pudding, IMO that's for beef only. (Or when meat is very expensive I could understand padding it out that way). Mash nope. (We might have mash with roast chicken sometimes, or maybe roast duck, but usually we'd be more likely to have mash with left overs or in a meal other than a 'roast' .


Roast potatoes yes, I consider them 'normal' at a roast meal.

LEJC

chocoholic_chick wrote: »

Well I'm late 20's so what age group are you talking about with the whole generation thing? I grew up having home cooked meals and a Sunday roast so to me its just normal.

With me as well its more me inviting the parents round for Sunday lunch than the other way around, I enjoy cooking for them and giving my mum a day off

I actually think that the whole ethos of food is changing a bit,and its far easier and sometimes not a lot more cost to get something ready prepared rather than cooking it yourselves nowadays....however please note I certainly do agree that sometimes there is a compromise on quality of mass produced food over home cooked..
I also dont always find that cooking from ingredients is cheaper...but its certainly more satisfying.

that aside,as Ive said throughout the thread it does seem that a lot of people would prefer to be on the receiving end of a sunday roast rather than the one cooking it...
Fair play to you if youre in your 20's and enjoying the tradition of cooking one on a regular basis!

I grew up in a household where my mum cooked every sunday and it was on the table at midday without fail,and as I've got older I have come to see that as an ingegral "childhood memory"..in fact even as an early married I used to pitch up back at home on a weekly basis for sunday lunch with husband in tow....its perhaps something that I do miss now both parents are no longer here....its just a shame I think that somewhere along the line I wasnt regimented enough or confident enough perhaps to continue it as a family tradition within my family now....apart from sometimes where usually quite a bit of planning needs to go into making sure all of us are in the same place at the same time on sunday to eat a roast....as the parent of teenagers who never seem to be in the house at the same time and having a husband who works contract usually at the weekends overnight,when there is a day that we are all together like yesterday I like to try to make the most of it!

It was great to have a sunday lunch I just dont think its feesable every week sadly.
I said it in an earlier post....whilst I'm a reasonably good cook and do indeed do a lot from ingredients I am by no means going to be remembered by my children as a "domestic goddess"...in fact its sweet things that I particularly find a challenge over a main meal...its not the fact that it doesnt taste good more the fact it looks rather rustic!
I too dont own a dishwasher by choice...and only seem to use a microwave for defrosting.

I'm also in the "no " camp on mash sorry...

I too would like to think of myself as a foodie...although whilst I do appreciate good food...there is also a time and place for a kebab!!!!!!...not often but.....





I love a sunday roast...I love it more when someone else cooks it!

CH27

We tend to have one most weeks september to march. I cook it as the evening meal.
I can't face eating or cooking it april to august.

peachyprice

balletshoes wrote: »

possibly - for example, I never had a home-made yorkshire pudding until I moved to England from Scotland - yorkshires just never made an appearance on roast dinner plates in any of my friends or relatives homes growing up in Scotland.

Don't you have roast tatties and mash on your plate with Christmas roast dinner?

No, never. It's only recently that I heard of it, in fact when my daughter heard the Toby Carvery ad that mentioned mash, she 'mum, that's just wrong' :rotfl:

Mash only appears here with stew, pie or sausages.

maman

I do a roast most Sundays. I only use small amounts of meat as I just love all the veggies. We always eat in the evening.

The time it takes to cook the meat isn't a problem if we're at home anyway. If we're out then I'll cook the meat beforehand and then just warm it.

It takes less than an hour to do everything else, so excluding meat, it's hardly much longer than much simpler meals.

This_Year

I sometimes do plain boiled spuds as well as roasties.

My appetite is variable at best despite often being really hungry before dinner and sometimes I get halfway through my meal and just can't finish it. That's when I become aware that OH and DD are both paying a great deal of attention to my uneaten spuds and their forks are poised ready to snaffle them off my plate.

Other times I eat the lot and you should see their faces drop when they realised there's no extras! :rotfl:

paulineb_2

Dont eat meat so no, but sometimes I'll have spuds, veggie sausages, gravy and veg.