Is the Sunday roast tradition dying?

We never have a roast ..unless we go out specially for one...although this weekend newly wedded S and new DiL coming down from London to have one with us.
Have ordered roast loin of pork....stuffed and rolled from butchers.......H has made leeks in cheese sauce (in freezer at mo). Will make proper Yorkshire puds..and other veg with roasties. Followed by home made pear and blackberry crumble........all sounds lot to do ...but looking forward to seeing them and their little dog (our grand pup!) ?

I do a Sunday roast every week, just for DH and myself. Cook twice as many veg and either microwave them on Monday or make massive fry up to go with leftover meat. Prepare veg early in the morning and put meat in before church and it's cooked beautifully by the time I get home. Got it off to a fine art but I put it down to my upbringing in a guest house.

I often do a roast just for the 2 of us, usually chicken since will get about 4 meals out of it + stock from the carcass.
But it's never at lunchtime - breaks up the day too much and just makes me want to sleep afterwards.

We have it in the evening, and that's what my mother did, too, apart from when we were very small, for the same reason.

I LOVE a roast. I often cook one just for me! But instead of a joint of meat I'll use chops.
I do love to feed people and if I am having people over I would probably choose a roast to cook

Coolgran65 I think your toast sounds delicious, can I come next week?
Actually we normally have roast, DH cooks if we're at home, or (as today) we visit one of our sons and they cook roast for us. Next week both sons, partners, and one grandchild, will be eating with us, plus my mother of course. So DH will do roast beef and all the trimmings, and I'll make a pudding, not sure what yet, I'll have a think about it, might do pineapple upside down pudding, that's tasty, or rich bread and butter pudding maybe.

Why are people afraid to write Christmas on this site!!!!!

Still often have a roast dish on Sundays, and often stovies with leftovers on Monday. Stovies, if anyone isn't familiar with this dish,,is the leftover meat mixed with fried onion and cooked potatoes and a little browning.

I have been known to suggest something different on a Sunday would be nice, but I get that look ! Apparently Sunday isn’t Sunday without a roast, and as even my daughter towers over me, well roast it is

We have a roast dinner in the evening most Sundays. Today's was a gammon joint we brought back from out last trip to England. My DH loves a roast dinner and it's not something served in restaurants here. Personally I don't like roast dinners in restaurants when we are in England. As already said they are rarely hot and just taste mass produced.

When I cook Sunday lunch I buy a microwaveable box of mixed veg together with veg I prep myself such as parsnips, fresh beetroot, a few tattles and maybe some leeks to steam. If DH gets involved he preps every veg, what a hooha. To be honest I would use ready prepared veg every time to save all the peeling and scraping.

I do realise that it costs more to have ready prepared but whilst I can afford it I try and slip the boxes into the shopping. To be fair DH is always happy to do the prepping but I have other jobs I would prefer him to do. ?

Have already said on different post but nothing like a proper roast, my far travelling children come home for it

Saraellen and Imperfct - I LOVE all the bits that go with a roast dinner but its not worth it for one. I have occasionally had Sunday Lunch out at a pub where they do the whole caboodle with a veggie alternative to meat and have really enjoyed it. I also went to my son's last new years day and they did me a quorn roast dinner which I also enjoyed but usually just have anything I've got in the fridge or freezer. You just get out of
the habit and in fact I don't know anyone who regularly has Sunday Roast dinner.
(Feeling hungry now!)

Spooky! I've just started a thread about Sunday roasts, hadn't seen this one.

Most Sundays I cook a roast dinner for all the family who live nearby, usually 8 for dinner. Occasionally I've suggested to dh that I do a lasagne and salad ....... hmm... they all love their roast dinner. DS1 always fills our freezer with various roasts

Today we had 2 large chickens, home made stuffing. Mash potatoes and roasties. Steamed sprouts which were then stir fried with green beans and garlic. Whole onions roasted in their skins and then easy peeled. Roasted carrots with home made apple butter.

Followed by trifle.
Followed by tea, coffee and walnut cake.

Some left over chicken with make dinner tomorrow, possibly curry.

No wonder I carry an extra lb or several

Angela1961 your meal almost echos mine which I shall have shortly, Mushroom Quiche, new potatoes & salad. I do a Roast almost every week, I am on my own now but DH always loved a roast.

I usually have a chicken so roast Sunday & Monday, then strip carcase & make stock, spare chicken goes in freezer. Occassionally have a curry on Sunday. I do use frozen Yorkshires, not as good as the ones I made (true Yorkshire Lass), even Aunt Bessie's don't quite make the grade but are a good substitute

Even though I am retired & on my own I try to keep Sunday special.

DD does roast most Sundays

I have a roast about twice a month depending on how I feel. I have been known to get sliced beef from the deli counter make the gravy and slip it in to warm through to save on time especially as we take MIL a dinner over every Sunday, she doesn't mind if she doesn't get a roast every Sunday. Today we had pork chops and roasted veg, pumpkin, carrots, potatoes, parsnips, onions, I got my 5 a day to be sure

I still cook a roast regularly, though not always on a Sunday. I'm now on my own but the family come for dinner very regularly. I would like the opportunity to have a Sunday pub roast as mentioned here instead of me always cooking.

We've just eaten Mushroom quiche,new potatoes, edame beans and garlic bread. We do not eat meat but still don't have a nut roast Sunday dinner more than a few times a year. We prefer to busy our Sunday's rather than all that peeling and basting !

Love having my roast on a Sunday. Today it was just pork chops, but with all the trimmings. Only two of us most of the time but I still like a nice joint of beef. Yes it isn't cheap, but if you have it roast on Sunday, cold on Monday, rissoles on Tuesday it's not so dear. Often have enough rissoles mixture left over to make a pasty too and that does us for two days!! Can be very economical :-)

always do a roast, beef and yorkshire puddings today trying to keep of the pudding love them but most lose some more weight.

All cold roast lamb gratefully received, kittylester and welshwife. The average roast Sunday lunch in a pub is pretty grim; the measures of foul gravy are more generous than the measures of drink.

My mother cooked a roast dinner every Sunday and alternated chicken with shoulder of lamb. We, however, have lots to do on Sunday and so don’t eat a big lunch. We have something preprepared like spaghetti Bol or lasagne in the evening. We love roast though and do the, quite often.

I love Roast Beef, but as Jusnoneed pointed out, the expense!! I now buy the cheapest cut of beef, usually brisket, and cook it in a slow cooker with about 50mls of hot water. The end result is very succulent beef, and the makings of the most flavourful gravy I have ever had. I would never go back to roasting beef in the oven as the slow cooker method is foolproof. It also works well with a joint of pork too.

Roast here most Sundays! We both love them, have a nice joint of pork in the oven now, which looks to have a lovely bit of crackling on it. Any leftovers will go into a stir fry tomorrow with noodles and veg.

welshwife lamb is really the only meat I eat regularly,dont eat pork or any type of fowl .I do a huge lamb roast every couple of weeks and slice it and freeze it in portions in the gravy .It heats up really well and its handy if the kids come for a freezer raid when they cant be bothered cooking..lol.I do the same with beef roast,in containers with the gravy ,it makes an easy quick dinner after work for my OH and I'll have an omelette.