Sunday roast

I never liked BBQs - why cook over a fire in the garden when you have a perfectly good kitchen! although DH loved them and was always inviting people back to ours when weather was good.

I usually do a roast on a Sunday, even now I am on my own, although when the weather is hot I tend to just roast a chicken and then have that with salad.

I wish they were less hard work.

DH kept the perching stool he needed after his two hip replacements which is the perfect height for the barbecue. He sits there waving various utensils over the meat while I run backwards and forwards organising salads, bread, sauces, cutlery, napkins, DRINKS etc., and just as I collapse on to the seat that nobody wants because it's rickety uncomfortable, he suggests I might like to check everything to make sure HE's cooked it properly.

We don't eat very much meat, but when I do cook meat it is usually poultry (duck today) and I always do the slow roast technique and have done for years. Give it a bit of a blast for 20 minutes, then turn down to 100 and leave as long as you like in a a covered roaster. It sort of steam-roasts and is always succulent - you can always do a hot blast at the end to crisp off the outside if you wish. It is useful when family are around as lunch can be a moveable feast depending on what everyone is doing.

I agree Ana. Second hand BBQ over the fence is not nice. I didn't use to like them at all, seemed to be an excuse for men to sit outside with a glass of wine while women slaved over the salads in the kitchen. However the advent of gas barbecues and the scaling down of the meatfest, has made them less hard work I find.

Never been a fan of barbecues - especially the neighbours'...
So much easier to do everything in the oven, whatever the season!

I particularly enjoy the current trend for long slow cooked roasts. Nigel Slater slow roast leg of lamb is a family favourite and can sit in the oven for 5 hours filling the house with amazing spicy smells. And it there is never any worry about tough meat.
I agree that it shouldn't be something that is expected of the cook as a right and can be so easily replaced by a good BBQ in the summer, but when the days are cold, bring on the Nigel lamb, or similar!

Thank you BeeWitch.I have PM'd you.

Have sent you the recipe annsixty via message - hope it's the one. It looks yummy though. Happy baking!

BeeWitch I have half of a tatty Bero book and a few years ago sent for the new one having seen it promoted on the back of a bag of flour.What a disappointment it was. So if you have the recipe for the lovely chocolate cake.....

Only ever make a roast when my children come back for the day/weekend now. Doesn't seem much point for one person! Cooking just isn't fun when you're on your own.

...andBeeWitch I have my Mum's Bero cookery book (with the brown illustrations)

I love having a roast on Sunday whether my OH wants one or not!DD2 will often ring on a Sunday and say she is just popping over...and then adds...and are you having a roast?We have a farm shop in the village so the quality of the meat and poultry is excellent but I think, really, I am just a sentimental old fool...memories of childhood, making apple pie with my Mum, listening to the radio, waiting( and waiting) for Dad to get back from the pub..
I don't do it every week but it's a tradition in the family that I enjoy maintaining.

Grannya - all NZ lamb is halal I understand, if you want to cook them a roast.

Steamed sponge pudding, yummy, yummy, with custard. Shush, am trying to watch my weight or even lose some!

I always used to cook a roast Sunday lunch, and more often than not made a steamed sponge pudding (courtesy of my old Bero recipe book, still got it too) when my children were growing up. I rarely do now ... last roast lunch I cooked was at Christmas.

I usually have pork and venison in the freezer and occasionally buy a joint of lamb or a chicken, but as my two Afghan boys are muslim they will only eat halal meat, so we've had very few roasts since they've been with us. I love to cook (and eat) roast dinners and they're a firm favourite with all the family so I do cook one if I get the chance - just not necessarily on a Sunday.

We often have a Sunday roast as we love cold meat, salad, fried potatoes and pickle on Monday.

The children rarely have a roast and aren't too keen on having one at all.

I find making a roast really easy so am happy to do it. I often make double veg dishes and freeze one to make it really really easy another time,

Like you Deeda we do not stick to SUNDAY roasts, we maybe have that during the week, but somehow it does not taste the same! We now just have juicy chops or steak, or chicken/duck pieces which saves having the left overs to cope with. On the odd occasion I also make a favourite pudding, but these are rare these days.

That all sounds very nice to me Mick.

I do myself a Sunday lunch , can vary as to what I have .
Usual routine is to do potatoes and veg in the steamer, I sometimes have a suet steak & kidney done in steamer.
Otherwise meat in oven being single I do enough for two days meals.
But tempted to go out for a proper pub Sunday roast.
mind you in the anchor home where I am many go to relatives or some do other eat outs at Chinese eat as much as wants.
Mick

Well that's ok then Long term relationships require give and take - or rather, receive, on both parts.

Jess DH is very obliging, enough said

I cook roasts, but not necessarily at the weekend. Once you're retired it doesn't really matter when you have it. I like it because it's easy to prepare and gives you cold meat to be sliced for sandwiches and enough left over for a curry or a cottage pie or whatever.

We usually have Sunday roast in the evening but other things were happening today so no roast dinner. I think DH may feel deprived. And no leftovers for tomorrow so I will have to think of something else for Monday dinner.

I never cook a Sunday roast. If we are on our own we go out in the evening for a curry (Sunday buffet )and if we have visitors I usually cook something with quorn as DD is vegetarian.