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

sukysue

No we don't cook Sunday lunch but we do have aroast dinner at least once a week. Sundays are too busy visiting the oldies and entertaining visitors.

zcrat41

I LOVE a good Sunday roast. We have one every week in the winter probably from October to March. My Mother in Law does a roast to die for, if we can't wangle an invite there then I do one. When DH and I were going out I knew I was in the running for a proposal when he commented that my Roast Potatoes were about as good as his mums.

I love nothing more than having friends round for a big old Sunday lunch, kids running round, the dog getting under the feet and having a good old catch up. We're lucky enough to have an Aga and it feels like I live in an Archers episode!

Tiglath

I do but not every week. Meat, dripping-roasted spuds, Yorkshires, parsnips, swede, carrots, peas, cauli cheese ... making myself hungry now!

Gillyx

BugglyB wrote: »

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.

Oh know I know that, I'm just not one for spuds/meat/veg, no matter how well flavoured it is, just my tastes I guess

poet123

Every single Sunday at 6pm ish we eat a full roast dinner.

We alternate between Beef, chicken and Lamb, not Pork because I don't like it!!

I find it just as quick to cook as any other meal, and if you tidy up as you go along it is not chaos, shove the dishwasher on and there you go. Sunday is not Sunday to me without a roast dinner.

mincepiemonster

We don't have a roast dinner very often at all, although we do have a nice Sunday get together with the family most weeks. Usually it's lasagne, Shepherd's pie or a Chinese takeaway. We are lucky enough to live less than 15 minutes walk from Toby Carvery so we tend to go there every fortnight or so through the winter - never on a Sunday though as it's rammed, and double the price :money:

Tigsteroonie

We have a roast dinner most Sundays, could be chicken beef or lamb depending on what's on offer (and whether I've been to Iceland!) It's served anywhere between 3pm & 8pm depending on who is here and what else we might be doing on that day. Cooking is a bit of a joint effort (Marley makes far superior mash & gravy to me!) and the fairies come along late evening to do the washing up after I've gone to bed

gingin_2

I do one once a month. I find it a faff, people like different things, one child not keen on meat, one loves meat, I don't like pork, husband eats too much, so it's expensive and time consuming. Our recognition of a sunday meal is a nice dessert, it's the only time of the week we have a proper one and it's usually naughty and calorific. I do roast whole chickens or joint of meat for a meal but it's not a full on roast. My favourite meal is a whole chicken and lots of seasonal veg roasted in one pan.

I've never been to a carvery, always wanted to. I even checked the Toby website to see if there was one near us but there isn't.

ciderwithrosie_2

We only have a Sunday roast about once a month now, used to be every week. I do other things instead, like cottage pie, chilli, chicken curry.
Eat at 5pm(ish) as OH goes to bed not long after (good ploy...leaving me with the washing up! I have dishwasher envy).

The boys will eat it if they're here, or I plate up some for them to have later on.

The only time we have a big dinner at lunchtime is Christmas Day.

My favourites are lamb or chicken, OH prefers beef

sedment

We had roast pork with crackling and roast potatoes with butternut squash carrots and parsnips and apple sauce. Some sundays its gammon or chicken, never lamb. We have a proper roast every other sunday and sometimes invite my mum and dad or brother and his gf and kids. I love entertaining, its hard work but love seeing my family :j