Do You Have A Roast Dinner Each Sunday?

Kylie

I make a roast every Sunday. My partner and I work long hours but I love cooking so I don't mind. My latest favourite is roast pork and every roast is made with homemade gravy, yorkshire puddings, roasted carrots with fresh thyme, parsnips with bacon and maple syrup, broccoli/caulifower with cheese/white sauce, roast potatos with goose fat, roasted sweet potato with sage. It's possible I go overboard.....

newbiemum05

kylie those parsnips sound wonderful !!

Penny-Pincher!!

This tastes fabulous and DD (12) scoffs loads, so may help children apreciate veg a little more

Peel and chop carrots length ways. I usually do about 1-2 carrots per person. Place into oven dish with some olive oil (just brush over) and cut a couple of gloves of garlic and place in dish. Cover with foil. Put in oven on 180c for about 20 mins, then remove foil and finish last 10-15mins.

Tastes devine! Works well with parsnips but the carrots are particularly lovely:D

PP
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Bargain_Rzl

I never get to have a roast

I usually get home from church at about 1:30pm (it's at the other side of town), which means it's impractical to invite folks over for Sunday lunch. Part of the joy of roast dinners, IMHO, is that you have them with family or friends - and living on my own, I never do it

Having said that, I've got a lovely-looking duck in the freezer which I got yellow-stickered from Somerfield the other week and it just waiting for such an occasion. Time I asked my cousins round to lunch methinks... or the friends who have invited ME to Sunday lunch next week... :think: :drool:

margaretclare

daisyroots wrote: »

Never have roast dinner on Sundays, even though OH and I are both second generation, I still think of it as something English people do, and not us. Yes, I was born here, and so were both my parents, but my Ma never taught me the mysteries of the Yorkshire Pud and Bisto (which is disgusting - sorry). Mind you I've had some great roast dinners in my time, all cooked by other people. This is a great question because I'm completely English in every way, but until I started answering it, I didn't realise that as far as food is concerned, I'm still a foreigner.

I'm ethnic English - born here, as were my ancestors for the last 1000 years. However, the tradition I was brought up in - in rural Yorkshire - was to have roast meat on Sundays, but Yorkshire puddings were a separate course i.e. Yorkshire puddings were served first with gravy and/or mint sauce, and then the rest of the meal, the roast meat, potatoes and whatever vegetable was in season. No sweet pudding to follow - those 2 courses were the meal.

Few people understand nowadays that Yorkshire puddings are a separate course, the first course, and the second course goes on to the same plate (i.e. not washed up in between, no need to).

The first time I ever had anything different from the above was when my first husband and I were living with my in-laws in Kent. MIL did it differently. She had Yorkshire puddings, meat, veg, potatoes, gravy, all on the one plate and THEN she had some kind of a meringue pudding to follow. I couldn't eat it. The sight of all that on one plate completely put me off. I've never been able to eat what many people regard as the 'traditional Sunday lunch', ever since then.

DH and I never have a 'traditional Sunday lunch'. We have whatever we fancy. Often we go to church and then out somewhere afterwards, sometimes we stop to eat out, sometimes not. Yesterday, for instance, we had kipper fillets for breakfast and then, later, we had chicken sandwiches - DH had bought a cooked chicken when he went shopping on Friday, and there was a lot of the cold meat left. We've been known to have bacon-and-egg for Sunday lunch (sometimes 3 in the afternoon!) or beans-on-toast. Whatever we feel like.

Margaret

annie-c

Gosh, that's amazing that you know your family tree going back 1000 years, margaretclare!!!!

I am also originally from Yorkshire and my mum still likes to serve yorkies with gravy before the main Sunday dinner. It's a nice family tradition; my grandma used to say it was a working class tradition, and the idea was to fill you up and so make the meat course go further. Nowadays, my mum can afford bigger joints of meat but it's only when the timing goes askew that we get everything on one plate

That reminds me; we always used to have our Sunday lunch without pudding, but then Sunday tea would BE the pudding, ie if lunch was at 2pm then we might have ice-cream or something at about 4-5pm....

Aaah, you've brought back lots of memories PP!!!

Chipps

newbiemum05 wrote: »

(any tips on acheiveing a top roast whilst being out all morning would be appreciated - no timer on oven BTW)

I know what you mean, not having a timer makes it a bit more tricky. We aren't out quite as long as we live very close to church, so how I cook the roast depends on the size of the meat.
Generally, what I do is to have all the veg prepared, preferably Sat evening. Then parboil the potatoes for roasting before we go out. Then, depending on the size of the meat, I either cook it before we go (if small) or turn the oven on just as I leave, at a slightly lower temperature than normal, if its a large piece of meat or chicken.
When we get in, I put the veg in the pressure cooker & the roasties (and yorkies if its beef) in the oven at about 200 C. Then everything is ready in about half an hour. Mind you, we get in about 1 o clock or just after, so it's not too difficult. I also have a hostess tray, so sometimes have the veges cooked & in that before going out, especially if we have guests.

(just to say that I am generally out between 10 and 1 so maybe that extra hour makes a difference)

milkydrink

daisyroots wrote: »

Never have roast dinner on Sundays, even though OH and I are both second generation, I still think of it as something English people do, and not us. Yes, I was born here, and so were both my parents, but my Ma never taught me the mysteries of the Yorkshire Pud and Bisto (which is disgusting - sorry). Mind you I've had some great roast dinners in my time, all cooked by other people. This is a great question because I'm completely English in every way, but until I started answering it, I didn't realise that as far as food is concerned, I'm still a foreigner.

I do a "proper" English roast lunch.

But my family are from the west of Ireland & they do theirs a bit different.

Usually they will serve only one or two tiny roast potatoes (they serve them more like yorkies, sort of on the side, almost like decoration!) & then a mountain of mash or a pile of spuds boiled in their jackets (hate spuds boiled in their jackets:eek: ) as the proper potato dish.
They though it was odd that I do a mountain of roast spuds & serve "only" those.

They nearly always serve stuffing with lamb.

In the main they don't bother with the condiments (horseradish ect) as much as the Brits. Thats not to say, none of them do, but most don't. But if I remember rightly they are quite big on cranberry sauce.

Irish people quite often have bacon & cabbage & spuds boiled in their jackets for sunday dinner (I've called it dinner, because they call their lunch their dinner), actually one of my cousins does this at least 3 times a week:eek:

boo81

I adore sunday lunch and going to the pub is a bit of an ocassional indulgence. Sadly I dont really have roast though because there are only 2 of us and frankly I wouldnt know where to start (any assistance for a 2 person roast would be appreciated!)

Roast is a winter tradition in my family but im not sure we have ever had them much through summer, its more bbqed meat instead. My parents never have a roast now because neither of them really like it. Personally I miss it!

Mizz_Pink

boo81 wrote: »

I adore sunday lunch and going to the pub is a bit of an ocassional indulgence. Sadly I dont really have roast though because there are only 2 of us and frankly I wouldnt know where to start (any assistance for a 2 person roast would be appreciated!)

Roast is a winter tradition in my family but im not sure we have ever had them much through summer, its more bbqed meat instead. My parents never have a roast now because neither of them really like it. Personally I miss it!

Have you cooked a whole chicken ? Theres 2 of us at home and I always do a roast dinner once a week, either a chicken or on a sunday when I have more time its a nice joint of roasting beef from our fave butchers