Sunday roast back on the menu again!

Flibberty99

Has anyone had experience of a Kenwood 50cm electric ceramic freestanding cooker? It’s perfect for my tiny kitchen and has a timer which I prefer, unlike most, but Which doesn’t recommend it. However a previous model of the same cooker got good reviews on Feefo. Any advice welcome! Including other recommended 50cm cookers, they’re a bit thin on the ground and most don’t have timers. The best of the no timers seems to be Beko. I’m driving myself mad with research, curse of my retirement! Thanks!
PS I can’t afford AEG!

Sorry I thought I had posted this as a new discussion! New to Gransnet!

If you keep the roast potatoes to a minimum and do a light gravy, what you have there IS a healthy meal

We rarely have a Sunday roast as it is such a faff just for 2 of us and I often find that I don’t feel very hungry by the time I’ve prepped it and cooked it. I much prefer to do something that looks after itself such as a slow cooker stew, or something that doesn’t take ages to prepare, such as fish.

I quite enjoy one if we go out for it, but that is only occasionally.

I do one at Christmas and Easter but eat them in the early evening rather than lunch time.

Gammon joint with cranberry sauce, baby potatoes, mixed salad leaves and avocado. Gammon was delicious!

Roast lamb with all the trimmings and LOADS of yorkies would be my final death-row dinner. Followed by treacle sponge pudding and custard.

I rarely cook a roast as it's just me, though I do roast a chicken leg in the air fryer sometimes and have it with veg and bread sauce. I can't be bothered with roasties or yorkies as I'm trying to eat low carb. However on Sunday I had a roast in a local pub with some friends. We're a knit and natter group and we try to have a sunday lunch out each month.
I do cook a roast if my family visit but last time that happened I'd been on holiday with DS and his family and we all returned to find the gas had been cut off to replace the pipes in the road while I was away. I arrived home with the food and struggled to cook the veg and sauces in the microwave! Thankfully my oven is electric but hob is gas! Arriving back on a Sunday meant there were no engineers to reconnect me or provide temporary equipment and I had no gas until Tuesday as they had to reposition my meter! Took months to get compensation but it was middle of summer so I didn't need the gas heating or I'd have been really fed up!

What a great question. I cooked roast pork yesterday with all the trimmings including apple sauce, cider gravy and homemade sage and onion stuffing . I had asked my S, Dil & small GS to join us & athough I say it myself is the food was delicious. What gave me the most pleasure was to watch my GS age 4 tucking in to everything including the crackling off a proper china side plate. What a beautiful 'weaned' little boy who cleared his plate. The icing on the cake was.a Pinnaple Upside-down pudding with huge cherries which he and his mum had made for us all the enjoy together- thats what I call the perfect Sunday Lunch.

Has anyone had experience of a Kenwood 50cm electric ceramic freestanding cooker? It’s perfect for my tiny kitchen and has a timer which I prefer, unlike most, but Which doesn’t recommend it. However a previous model of the same cooker got good reviews on Feefo. Any advice welcome! Including other recommended 50cm cookers, they’re a bit thin on the ground and most don’t have timers. The best of the no timers seems to be Beko. I’m driving myself mad with research, curse of my retirement! Thanks!
PS I can’t afford AEG!

AuntieE

Being on my own now and having vegetarian friends cooking a roast is not often on the agenda.

However, I love cooking, so I have got over the feeling that it is wasteful or self-indulgent to cook a roast for myself and do occasionally do so, as I do so enjoy both preparing and eating it.

We have vegetarians in the family and still do a roast dinner. We use ‘this isn’t chicken pieces’ and veggie sausages with roast vegetables, Yorkshire pudding, and rich onion gravy. Is delicious, so much do that we don’t use real meat/chicken when doing a roast dinner for ourselves.

I love a roast ! Yesterday roast chicken with roasties, roasted carrots and parsnips with broccoli and peas and proper gravy.
Must admit as only two of us it is not a weekly event these days.
As I was clearing up DS rang to ask / order a roast when they all come down for half term !

Being on my own now and having vegetarian friends cooking a roast is not often on the agenda.

However, I love cooking, so I have got over the feeling that it is wasteful or self-indulgent to cook a roast for myself and do occasionally do so, as I do so enjoy both preparing and eating it.

If our family, who are round often, ask for Sunday roast, menu done.

DH always used to cook the roasts and have only done one myself once when had a visitor. I was exhausted at the end and forgot to put the dessert in the oven to cook so had it later for supper. Never done it before and it will be a long time before I try it again! Too much faff for a meal.

Calendargirl

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.

We often use part of it for a risotto, with fried chopped onions, wine, mushrooms and perhaps some bacon or ham.

I don't often cook a full Sunday roast of beef, pork or lamb unless we have family here, so just a couple of times a month, but I regularly cook a roast chicken. When I was a child chicken was a meal for special occasions but now it seems much more "every day".
A joint of gammon is also an everyday meal for us, it's just so good for eating cold or rehashing as other dishes.

I did a chicken roast at lunchtime yesterday, with yorkshires and stuffing, roasties, and three other veg and gravy.All the local family joined us, we do this every month if I’m not working that day.Not in Summer tho, then it would be something with salad, fish or steaks.

Calendargirl

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.

My leftover chicken goes in meal sized (large and smaller) foil packets in the freezer, labelled CB (Chick Bits!)

I usually use some for a Thai style green curry, or a chicken, leek and mushroom pie (mash on top), little bits will go in a stir fry with lots of veg.

Especially in cold weather, some of the smaller bits will go in a (main meal) mulligatawny soup. Onion, carrot, celery, curry powder, stock cubes (or stock from the carcass) rice and apple - lovely and warming.

I used to do a roast every Sunday

I used to do one at lunch-time on Sundays when the DC were at home too and, more often than not, when they were older one or more of their friends would come round too.

A mini roast unless family is coming ie chops or chicken pieces with roast vegetables and lightly cooked green vegetables.
I did make apple sauce with pork chops.

I used to do a roast every Sunday, with the meat in the oven on a time whilst we were at church. Not a faff, as it was routine.

More recently we had a good joint from the local independent butcher, cold or reheated on Monday, but the rest sliced and frozen in gravy for another time. Yorkshires also frozen.

Now I am on my own I don’t do roasts, but I cook a pork slice or a turkey steak in the air fryer with roasted veg. My son makes superb roast dinners and the best Yorkshires so I get well fed when I am invited there, with leftovers to take home for another day

When we were a family together , I often did a roast at the weekend, but often it would be on saturday evening. That suited us as we enjoyed the meal, but sunday was a day to do things together and get out and about, whether it was going sailing, or I might be singing in a concert or at a church service, and my son liked to do a variety of things, so having the meal on saturday, with of course good Yorkshire pudding etc etc, meant that on the sunday it was an easy meal to organise as we often had either cold meat and bubble and squeak, or cold meat and salad , which suited us all ok, and we were not tied to a specific time. Now I am a widow and live alone, I occasionally do a roast with all the trimmings, but often that is when I have family or visitors, but again do things in the week so that I am free to go off to look at gardens, have a day out, meet friends etc. I do very occasionally have a roast meal out, but that is usually at a local pub where the cook is excellent, she cooks large enough joints to have a good flavour and most of all she makes very good gravy that goes with it. I find that whilst hotels etc can have a good carvery or whatever, but it is rare that they can provide good gravy to match.

Sago, i agree, Yorkshires only belong with beef!!

We had roast chicken earlier.
I don’t like Yorkshires Sago , I’d rather have more vegi.

Were a productive lot aren’t we?
I’ve loved reading all your contributions, still feeling a bit guilty for not whipping up some Yorkshires though!

I cooked a chicken roast dinner last Sunday. We had several more meals from it plus chicken and vegetable soup for two days. I find they go a long way and are economical. I bought a punnet of plums in the reduced section and we had plum crumble for pudding.