Do You Have A Roast Dinner Each Sunday?

dmg24

My Mum still does a roast each week, and my Dad picks me up at 1pm so that I can go over too. She also makes three extra meals, one for my Dad to have if she is out in the week, and two for me to take home. Means that she can check that I'm eating properly (I'm 28!) ... I'm not complaining! x

TNG

dmg24 wrote: »

My Mum still does a roast each week, and my Dad picks me up at 1pm so that I can go over too. She also makes three extra meals, one for my Dad to have if she is out in the week, and two for me to take home. Means that she can check that I'm eating properly (I'm 28!) ... I'm not complaining! x

Awwww. bless her!

Sharifa_2

I don't do roasts as such (being a live-alone vegan) but sometimes I do all the trappings: roast spuds, parsnips, swede, broccoli, carrots, peas, other veg, with veggie gravy. Sometimes I'll do a nut roast, but mostly I have it on its own with cranberry sauce or mint sauce.

Hester - do you have a recipe for the lentil roast?

frizz_head

Sunday is the only day that we sit down together and have a meal as a family, because of work and DDs activities, so we all take it in turns to decide what we eat. During the winter it quite often ends up being a roast, beef or chicken, lamb makes me heave.

In the summer (what summer )we tend to eat outside, so 9 times out of 10 BBQ gets the vote, otherwise its pasta bakes with salads, or Chilli/Tacos/Fajitas with tortillas and lots of dips and salady bits. I like the social aspect of having all the food in the centre of the table and helping yourself, as opposed to plating up meals.

beemuzed

We normally do have a Sunday roast ( could be beef, lamb, pork or chicken) and I'm sure it's just because that was always the way it was from childhood! Just occasionally in summer time we'll have salmon steaks instead, but then we have to think of more meals during the week As there's only the two of us usually, we can base at least two other meals around the leftovers e.g. if it's lamb then usually moussaka and shepherd's pie, chicken means curry and chicken'n'rice, etc. Tomorrow's a salmon day and it took us ages to decide what to eat for the rest of the coming week. However, if I were to be asked out on a Sunday I don't think I'd necessarily expect it to be a roast.

TNG

frizz_head wrote: »

In the summer (what summer )we tend to eat outside, so 9 times out of 10 BBQ gets the vote, otherwise its pasta bakes with salads, or Chilli/Tacos/Fajitas with tortillas and lots of dips and salady bits. I like the social aspect of having all the food in the centre of the table and helping yourself, as opposed to plating up meals.

Hi frizz :hello:

:drool: I'm on my way! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Chipps

frizz_head wrote: »

I like the social aspect of having all the food in the centre of the table and helping yourself, as opposed to plating up meals.

that's one reason it's easy to have a roast, especially if we have guests. We usually serve the meat onto the plates, then all the veges & extras go in serving dishes on the table. Saves me having to worry about who wants what!

frizz_head

Chipps wrote: »

that's one reason it's easy to have a roast, especially if we have guests. We usually serve the meat onto the plates, then all the veges & extras go in serving dishes on the table. Saves me having to worry about who wants what!

:shhh: and noone can tell when you're on your seventh plate full how much you've really eaten!

Nenen

thriftmonster wrote: »

No, we always have ours in the middle of the week as dh has a horror of Sunday roasts due to a very regimented childhood ie you may not do anything else on a Sunday because of the roast...... Our tradition is to have a brunch on Sunday and then dh and the kids cook on Sun evening. We generally have a roast either on Mon or Thurs because this fits in with our committments. I love lamb or pork but the kids love chicken and dh loves beef - we also have pheasant quite a bit in winter.

Cooo Thriftmonster, I wonder if we are both married to the same guy?
My dh had exactly the same experience as yours and absolutely HATES having roast on Sundays now. He will eat one if someone else cooks it but is still not keen and when he's doing the cooking he would never choose to do roast because of all the bad memories it brings up for him. It's such a pity because me and our children all love roast but don't like to have it too often for his sake.
Isn't it weird how some people love the 'security' of having roast every Sunday and yet others really hate it? I think for him, it was the HUGE fuss his Mother made about making it and all the washing up he was expected to do afterwards. Even now, greasy trays make him gag (and yet he's the best bloke I've ever met for doing far more than his fair share of household chores etc so it certainly isn't a sexist 'not my job' kind of attitude).

Queenie

Roasts are very much a family tradition for me. It's the one meal my mum would put together so that if the older members of the family turned up on a Sunday (eg half sis with dh and children) she would be able to eke it out with extra Yorkies and mash.

These days, 2 weekends every 5 weeks the lads are with their Dad so I don't really bother for myself - yet, interestingly, *he* still maintains the regime of a Sunday roast when they are with him :T

Summer, I still enjoy the roast on a Sunday ritual, but, years ago I learned a lesson - that being, if I roast the meat on Saturday, then put it in the fridge, it slices thinner = goes further :whistle:

My mother was of the generation whereby you would *invest* your weekly £'s in a good joint for Sunday (on the bone!) and that would serve as the basis of meals for most of the week (pre-freezers!). That poor old bone would be first roasted with the meat and be stock and soup for the rest of the week

Many years ago, when my eldest 3 were little, my back door was always open and it wouldn't be surprising for friends to turn up on a Sunday at meal times (those were the days when pubs closed for the afternoon ). One Sunday, I had a chicken in the oven and by dishing up time there were 11 people, all hungry and ready to enjoy my hospitality. I threw in some extra sausages, made Yorkies, added a few extra spuds for mash and fed all 11 on that one chicken, a few sausages, roast and mash potatoes, yorkies and veg!!! Funny thing is, everyone left feeling quite satiated, yet it wasn't a banquet - but it's the 5 loaves and 2 fishes syndrome I think.

The summers are definately getting hotter (when the clouds clear!) and it's not really practicable to have the oven on in the heat of the midday sun! But, that's when the BBQ and SC come into their own. Frozen HM yorkshires take moments in the oven if needs be, pre-prepared HM frozen tatties likewise.

One aspect of serving multitudes via serving bowls rather than individual plates (back to the loaves and fishes) seems to be there is always more than enough for everyone, often with some leftovers ... yet, if it were dished up on individual plates ... doesn't seem to go so far!