Sunday roast back on the menu again!

I cooked a Christmas dinner last Sunday 😀

I bought a large fresh turkey crown in Tesco on Christmas Eve reduced to £4 a couple of hours before closing time. Straight into the freezer drawer I had empty in anticipation of a Christmas Eve meat bargain like I do most years.

It was delicious and enjoyed by visiting family.

We both love a roast! Tonight it’s turkey with apple and leek stuffing.
I normally cook a large joint of pork or beef or a turkey then portion it up and freeze it. I’ve discovered that freezing roasted potatoes and parsnips means that I don’t have to go through the faff every week. Other vegetables are cooked fresh. We sometimes have a pudding and that will come from the freezer too. Please don’t read this as me being smug! I’ve found it harder to concentrate since getting covid and there have been times when I’ve found it very difficult to juggle all the elements of putting a meal together.

I’m feeling bad that there’s no Yorkshires!
Today it’s pork and I’m a bit of a traditionalist!

I do a roast dinner every week. My son, his wife and granddaughter and my daughter and her granddaughters come for it. Today was pork loin, roast potatoes, cauliflower, peas, parsnips sprouts and Yorkshire pudding with made from scratch gravy 😋. They always look forward to it and plates are licked clean (not literally) every week. I’ll continue doing it as long as I can ☺️

Curry (fry onions in garlic & ginger, add par boiled potatoes and any veggies, stock & curry paste and chicken)

Pie (chicken & mushroom or chicken & ham)

Chilly chicken (add sweetcorn, peppers, tin of tomatoes, chilli flakes/powder or fresh, garlic and seasoning to taste)

Chicken and broccoli pasta ( cook pasta, semi drain add cream cheese broccoli and chicken)

grannysyb

Roast chicken tonight, it last us most the week!

What do you do with your remaining roast chicken?

Always looking for new ways to use it up.

I love a roast dinner and have cooked one most Sundays for the last 60 yrs. If you do it often enough it is easy I certainly don't slave over the cooker. We eat about 5.30pm. Today it is roast lamb, mint sauce. Carrot and swede mash. Broccoli ,roast potatoes and proper gravy (not out of a tin) all followed by apple pie made from scratch and ice cream. Hungry already!

Lamb crown today, I haven’t cooked a roast dinner since well before Christmas. Sunday is my only non-busy day but I’m slower now and can’t cook any more with people talking to me so I rarely bother with anything complicated. Lamb crown is quick though and I also have defrosted red cabbage I made a few weeks ago. Roasties are leftovers. I make ok Yorkshire puddings but normally use Aunt Bessie’s now. I did notice though that the lamb I buy has gone up by more than a third since I last bought it about 6 months ago. I see sheep in local fields and wonder if that’s a reasonable price increase.

Roast chicken tonight, it last us most the week!

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Sunday Roasts aren't going out of fashion in the restaurants and good pubs near me. If they serve a sirloin or rib then you have to book a couple of weeks in advance.
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with respect the ready cut vegetables, it cook be a gamechanger for some people with chronic pain or other disabilities. I suppose it's only like buying frozen or tinned vegetables that are ready prepared

I make my Yorkshire puddings in advance and freeze them to use as I need them. Reminds me I need to cook a load more for the freezer!

nanna8

Roast joints are very expensive here now, cost a fortune so we just have one for a ‘treat’ now and then. Chicken is cheap and so is pork so we eat a fair bit of that. Not sure what lamb costs in the uk but a very,very small joint is over $20 here. Mind you, a cup of coffee is now $6 where I live, just in a shopping mall food court. Not even a large one, either.

So I guess you wouldn’t agree with Mr Trump that prices are falling more than they’ve ever fallen in the whole of history 🤣

GrannyIvy

Meant to say today is shin of beef in slow cooker with roast potatoes Yorkshire pudding and veg for a change. Always make my own Yorkshire puddings and use fresh veg.

it is apparently Yorkshire Pudding Day today

I really fancied a roast today but we had leftover chinese instead from Friday night

I have roasted a ham but it's for sandwiches/lunches in the week

Meant to say today is shin of beef in slow cooker with roast potatoes Yorkshire pudding and veg for a change. Always make my own Yorkshire puddings and use fresh veg.

I do a roast every Sunday and enjoy doing it. However the summer months do a BBQ instead. Usually do it for 5 pm and have a glass of wine. Don’t usually bother with a dessert unless the family come when I buy one from M & S or Waitrose.

Growing up was always a roast on sunday and a weds.
Loved the smell of the roast ,as i walked in from school.
Now its usually a roast midweek.
I will do a cottage pie, or a curry, or cassorole in slow cooker sundays and we always eat early evening especially in the summer, i dont want to be cooking for lunchtime when you can go out somewhere

I don't find it a hassle to cook either. To me, it's no more complicated that any other meal really.

I find preparing and cooking a Sunday roast very therapeutic and I find myself reflecting on the previous week and thinking forward to the coming week.

Usually have a sherry over ice with the radio on or turn in the TV.

Sago

I too find it so easy to cook I can’t understand why anyone would buy ready prepared veg etc.

We eat around 6-7, so it’s oven on prep the meat, parboil potatoes, chop veg this takes 10-15 minutes
A couple of hours later Itake meat out to rest, put in the roasties, cook the veg and start the gravy whilst drinking a robust red!

This is around 30 minutes.

I certainly don’t slave all day!

I would agree - to me it’s a simple meal to cook. (The cleSome people do make heavy weather of it though - 2 different sorts of potatoes, 3 different veg, and home made Yorkshires…

Roast joints are very expensive here now, cost a fortune so we just have one for a ‘treat’ now and then. Chicken is cheap and so is pork so we eat a fair bit of that. Not sure what lamb costs in the uk but a very,very small joint is over $20 here. Mind you, a cup of coffee is now $6 where I live, just in a shopping mall food court. Not even a large one, either.

One thing as to roasts ,was many years ago , my mum did the Yorkshire pud as a separate dish with gravy usually after the roast.
Mick

loopyloo

In the olden days dinner on Sunday was at midday as most of the servants had the evening off. Cold meat and salad was left for the family.
Now I might do a roast when the family is here or rather slow cook beef or gammon. With roast veges

In the olden days my family would have been the servants not the ones having a meal cooked for them.

I love a Sunday roast and make one at least once a month. On another Sunday we will eat out and I always have a roast. Elder son and his family will be here next weekend so roast guinea fowl and ALL the trimmings will be on the menu - bread sauce, stuffing and probably Yorkshire pudding too as my granddaughter loves it. I generally make some things in advance and freeze them. I love doing it all and think I have it down to a fine art!

Today I’m cooking beef bourguignon and apricot and lemon clafoutis. Next Sunday’s pudding will be chocolate based.