Do You Have A Roast Dinner Each Sunday?

JAMIEDODGER

I never do a roast on a sunday:D

two eldest are always at their dads on a sunday so only me and two littlies, one of them wont eat anything coloured (because of his autism) so veg is out:( and i really cant see the point of cooking one just for me and dd, we tend to have the normal sarnies and soup for lunch and dinner time on a sunday night is usually egg night lol, i make what they want as long as its made with eggs lol.

i do love a good roast so sometimes i will have one on a lunch out with the girls:)

Penny-Pincher!!

Queenie wrote: »

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!

I have never thought about saving £'s to get a better joint of meat on a Sunday. We were at a posh butchers a couple of weeks ago and I asked how much a joint (leg of lamb) was...I nearly passed out when he said £12...it was a lovely piece of meat though and I think Sundays should be special! Do you use a slicer when you cut the meat as I really should think about investing in one of these

Thanks Queenie

PP
xx

Queenie

No, I don't use a slicer - years of practise :laugh: A cold joint will slice thinner and more accurately than a still warm joint straight from the oven.

As for the *investment* aspect - it made common sense to that generation, afterall, this is where the original recipes/inventions for Shepards/Cottage Pie etc., came from. What we call using up "leftovers" today was merely a way of stretching that lovely Sunday joint to its fullest.

Roast on Sunday
Cold cuts Monday
Shepards/Cottage pie Tuesday (depending on lamb or beef)
Pastry meat pie Wednesday
Curry/casserole/stew by Thursday
Fish on Friday
Soup, with perhaps dripping on toast, on Saturday
Start again Sunday

Or somesuch

Do remember though, portion sizes in those days were never as generous as today!!! An average meat serving used to be 4oz off the bone per person or 6oz on the bone. These days an expected "conservative" portion is deemed 6oz off the one and 8oz off the bone! By that I mean, when guestimating how much meat to buy, you would gauge, 4oz per person if it was a boneless joint, or 6oz per person if you were buying a bone in joint.

Take a 3lb chicken for example, for my mum, that would mean 8 portions of meat. 3lb of meat on the bone divided by 6oz portions = 8 portions.

Likewise 3lb minced beef (off the bone) would equate to 12 portions of meat.

In those days there were no luxuries such as TV, mobiles, internet - so after rent and basic commodities, the rest was spent on food. Of that, the greater portion was spent on a decent joint.

The modern idea that it's meat every meal has been translated into:- chops, chicken breast, sausages, burgers, casserole (using fresh meat) chilli's, spag bol, etc., etc, but if you really look back, that "meat every meal" came from the humble roast meat ekked out throughout the week - and even then, that was if you were fortunate enough to be able to invest in that one joint in the first instance!

Fascinating stuff, really

tomstickland

No. I'm usually out mountain biking on a Sunday.

Queenie

tomstickland wrote: »

No. I'm usually out mountain biking on a Sunday.

:rotfl: :rotfl:

daphne_descends

I haven't done a roast since I was about 6 weeks pregnant (went off veg, then meat, then veg again) but I'm now starting to miss them (I'm 23 weeks so it's been a few months). I'm going to endeavour to do one on the next 'bad weather' weekend

sonee2405

on a sunday we have
chicken jalfrezi
plain veg biriani
salad
2types of raita
mince kebabs with roasted chillie potatoes
ice cream with jelly for desert
After in the evening we have pizza

lynzpower

I love roasts on sundays. We tend to do chicken, but recently Ive bought pork joints and theyve been quite successful too, although i dont find pork quite as leftover freindly tbh.

I love making roasts, love seeing it all come together.

We have meat, peas, carrots, potatoes, gravy using comptons mmm, OH does his amazing yorkies too, and then on top of that whatever else is around like green beans, snips, mange tout, sugar snaps etc. I then vary my "signature" of leeks & white sauce, or sweetcorn fritters - I tihnk everyone should personlise thier roasts a little bit

Rikki

lynzpower wrote: »

I love roasts on sundays. We tend to do chicken, but recently Ive bought pork joints and theyve been quite successful too, although i dont find pork quite as leftover freindly tbh.

I love making roasts, love seeing it all come together.

We have meat, peas, carrots, potatoes, gravy using comptons mmm, OH does his amazing yorkies too, and then on top of that whatever else is around like green beans, snips, mange tout, sugar snaps etc. I then vary my "signature" of leeks & white sauce, or sweetcorn fritters - I tihnk everyone should personlise thier roasts a little bit

I like to mince cold roast pork add cooked veg and make pasties. My children love them.
It makes nice curries too.

Elliesmum

We like a roast on a Sunday but if we don't have one it's no big deal to us as a family. Hubby does really like roasts and we are having one tomorrow as it's Father's Day.

EM xx