When's the last time you cooked roast beef?

Quite regularly ….. always a sirloin roast or a ribeye roast. Having a 4 rib of beef for Christmas Day plus a Turkey crown for those that want Turkey meat. Hate it myself.

I stopped eating meat, fish etc 31 years go when I became vegetarian. Decided to go vegan about 9 years ago so a very long time for me.

A goodly number of years! Having cooked mostly for two people, a beef joint is too small to be economical - so rarely bought. In common with an earlier poster - I might choose Roast Beef when eating out - or as a guest at my sister's dinner table (she regularly cooks for larger family and friends).

About 30 years ago, just before we became vegetarian. Never looked back. I do cook a lovely roast dinner sometimes in the colder months though - all the trimmings and a nice Quorn roast.

We have Roast Beef fairly regularly. We have it "rare" in the first roasting. DH has the cooked through bits and I have the rare bits. The next day, we have it with homemade chips. I have mine cold because I want it rare, DH warms his because he likes it cooked through. The following day we have it in a stir fry or casserole. Depending on the size of it, we might also get sandwiches out of it.
We might not have Roast Beef again for a month or two but when we do, we thoroughly enjoy it. The rest of the time we live on chicken/fish/pork.

Don’t do very often it’s usually chicken or pork for us but have the family coming today so cooking roast beef today for 7 of us it is expensive for a decent size joint however is is the DGSs favourite and a rare treat ! and cheaper than us all going out to eat

Last Christmas. I actually sliced up the extra and put it in the freezer to use later as I live on my own. I have beef when I go out with friends for lunch. A hotel near us does a roast lunch with pudding for £14 and I always go for the roast beef followed by warm apple tart with custard. A lovely treat once in a while.

I never cook it. My husband does though - we had roast beef last week with the daughters & grandchildren and we're having it today, even though it's just the two of us. I wouldn't even be sure which bit of the cow to buy!

How funny you should bring this up this morning. I bought beef yesterday (the first time in years) I’ve had to look up cooking times!

Exdancer I know just what you mean!

I agree - you need a large joint to have a decent tasting roast and for two of us, it’s not worth it. It’s also a heck of a slog, doing a Sunday roast and I’m just prepared to go through all that any more!

It's been a very long time since I did a roast beef. A few years, anyway. Beef has gotten very expensive, and a good size rib roast is almost the price of a week's groceries.

We quite often do roast chicken. I tend to do mashed potatoes though, hardly ever roasted.

I do a roast every Sunday when my sons family come for dinner ,its the one thing I can guarantee they will all eat .I'm not much of a meat eater but I will have some lamb with a red wine and redcurrant sauce.I dont eat any fowl or pork so those days I make sure there's a good potato dish with veg and I'm happy with that .

On Sunday, came from my neighbours herd. Beautiful.

My family (I only usually do a roast for them) prefer a pork joint with crackling or chicken with stuffing.
I do like beef but wouldn't buy it for myself. If I was buying it, it would be brisket, pot roasted.
They like my beef stew.
I'm very happy they told me they don't particularly like turkey! Although I do, it will definitely save money this year. I'm happy with chicken and gammon.

Last Christmas!!

So long ago that I could not possibly tell you the date.

I suspect it was sometime in 1975 and my mother was footing the bill!

I pot roasted silverside in 2002 - I remember that as it was one of the first times my father visited us after my mother's death. It was a dish he was partial to, otherwise I would never have chosen it.

We eat roast pork three or four times a year, roast lamb at Easter and roast chicken or duck perhaps once a year.

There is no way at today's prices we could eat a roast once a week, as we did in my childhood.

Common meat dishes are boiled or fried streaky pork, bacon fried or boiled, a small amount of chicken fried or post roasted, sausages, mince, meat-balls and on special occasions if we don't have a roast boiled ham.

I rarely cook beef, as I don`t have much success with it. Pork, lamb, chicken, turkey, no problem, but beef rarely cooks to my satisfaction.

This thread takes me back to my childhood when beef (usually a pot roast) or lamb (rolled shoulder) would be routine Sunday fare but chicken only appeared on the menu on very special occasions. How times change!

I do a roast dinner every other Sunday, our grandchildren come for the weekend twice a month, when they're here I alternate between beef and chicken, my husband doesn't like roast pork although I do! lamb is so expensive and we aren't keen on it cold the next day. However, I'm buying beef less often as the children prefer roast chicken as long as that comes with Yorkshire puddings.

Sometime in the 90's as after that we went vegetarian.

Me too Dragon. But the family like it and its easy and it covers two more meals.
Me? I'm bored to death with it.

Last Christmas, a huge 4 rib of beef- fabulous (turkey? nah).

Last Sunday!

Blondiescot

Reading this, I've just realised it's been quite a while since we've had roast beef. I do make a Sunday roast on a regular basis, but these days it tends to be chicken or maybe pork. I look at lamb and beef and then see the price tag and move on to something cheaper.

This is what I've been doing. I look at the price and end up going for chicken or pork instead.
But I love roast beef.
So might start getting it from the butchers as others have been doing.