Sunday roast is it still eaten

I hardly ever do one and when I do it’s what I call a mini roast. The last one was a month ago and I only did it because DDwas coming for a sleepover.

We all love roast dinners and have them often, normally on a Sunday, and much more so in the winter.

Pubs, hotels and restaurants always have a Sunday roast dinner. They're in business so know that it's a very popular thing to feature for young and old. If we're out I often choose the roast. Not much point going to all that trouble just for two. Also nice to get slices from a really big joint rather than a titchy one like I'd buy for just us.
Had a beautiful roast dinner today in Lower Largo. Lashings of tender juicy lamb with great roast spuds, cauliflower, broccoli, red cabbage and wonderful rich gravy! Seriously yummy.

I love a Sunday roast but rarely do one since widowed. My favourite is roast rib of beef, medium rare, with lots of melting marbled fat. Crispy, fluffy roast potatoes, roast parsnips, mashed swede with lots of butter and white pepper, brussels sprouts and curly kale.

For pudding I love gooseberry or rhubarb crumble, if in season, served with a good dollop of West Country clotted cream.

My second choice would be a good free range, corn fed chicken with sage and onion stuffing and bread sauce served with savoy cabbage or spring greens and mashed swede again.

Second pudding choice would be Cheddar strawberries, a sprinkling of sugar and clotted cream.

Yum. Now I'm hungry.

We have family roasts from October thru to around May...I'm 59 now ...and its not often we host these days....far more likely to be .my DD or my DS....who are far more into roast dinners than me

I do roast dinners and so does Mum sometimes, so it’s either all round to ours or hers.I think about once a month, not every week.
Most pubs do reasonable ones and are always busy so most people seem to like them.

Roast Beef , runner beans, carrots, roast potatoes and shallots.
And gravy.
Down the hatch a few hours ago.

We still have a roast most Sundays during Spring, Autumn and Winter. Our two sons rarely have them. To us, it’s one of the easiest meals to cook.

I think it's easier to cook a roast than veggie meals for me, no recipe to follow. Roast chicken, potatoes courgettes peas cabbage & gravy for us today. Raspberry crumble for pud. Don't do it every weekend, as it does take longer with the cooking time & there's a lot of washing up (I don't put the suacepans & roasting pans in the dishwasher). But I do like to make an effort for dinner on sunday.

My husband loved a roast on a Sunday but since he died two years ago I don’t do one for myself.
Both my children never cook roasts on a Sunday but love to come to me for one, which they do every 4-6 weeks
Today they all came for roast pork, stuffing, red cabbage, carrots, green beans and roast potatoes. I took my granddaughter blackberry picking last week and she was very proud to tell everyone when I brought out the apple and blackberry crumble that she picked the blackberries.
I am exhausted now, will go to bed soon!!

Well, as I said upthread, there would be plenty of posters coming along to say they have a Sunday roast - and that’s great 😁. Personally, though, a Sunday roast is a rarity. We enjoy it when we do have one, but I can count on one hand how many we have during the year, so perhaps that’s why they seem much more enjoyable for me, as they’re not an every week occurrence and expectation. Today, for example, we had a vegetable risotto, and very tasty it was, too.
Quite often, in the past, when I tried to do a regular Sunday roast, I found that after spending all the time in the kitchen getting it ready, I was no longer hungry, and ate hardly any of it, so then we decided that quick and easy meals were the answer, and, in the winter months, slow cooked stews, etc, which look after themselves, smell delicious as they’re cooking, need little attention by me as they are cooking and so get my taste and hunger buds buzzing 😂😂.

Roasts yes, not necessarily on a Sunday though. We tend to do a roast when our gchn visit as they love them, and I love the trimmings!

A roast for just us will see us through most of the week one way or another so it’s economical too, once the initial long cook is done. Sometimes I slice up left over meat and freeze it interleaved with greaseproof paper, so that’s useful as a standby.

A roast does not involve a lot of cooking . We had roast lamb to-day it was in the oven at 1 pm until 5 pm cooked long and slow . It was a half leg I bought before Christmas when Tesco had them half price . I always freeze what is left as I do not like the same meat two days running . DH has 3 portions frozen for some other day as he loves lamb and I can choose something else .

My son often comes to dinner on Sundays, and I sometimes do a roast which we both love. I don't necessarily buy a joint, just chicken breast or something. It's really quite an easy meal to cook.

It’s not the joint itself that takes up the time, as it can be left to look after itself, it’s all the other stuff - prepping veg, mashing potatoes, making & cooking roasties and yorkies, making the gravy from the roast juices and ensuring it’s all timed correctly. Then there's all the washing up - roasting dishes, Yorkshire pudding pans, veg pans, etc, etc. It’s quite labour intensive for just 2 of us, so that’s why it’s a rare treat.

not this time of year, in the colder months.

It takes me about an hour to cook a small joint, using fresh veg, I prep the veg and cook them while the joint is cooking, using frozen veg out of season it’s even easier.

My wife does not get inspired by routine cooking, yesterday she came in with a basket of windfalls to make Apple, Rosemary and Mint Jelly to give as Christmas presents, every one gets a homemade hamper.

It's not my favourite meal, and it's not worth the effort for 2 us. My husband likes a roast dinner sometimes when we go out. I prefer a good curry.

I'm a vegetarian, but sometimes eat out on Sundays with meat eating friends or family.
Many places do a set meal on Sunday based on the roast - meat model, use at a set price. These can be good . I do love a roast potato.
I have no problem eating a roasted cauliflower as my main. My " beef" ( sorry - couldn't resist) is that I pay the same as the roast lamb eaters.

I found myself going down to once a month two or three years ago.
And not necessarily having it on Sundays either.

Too much work. Too expensive some of it.
And for some reason, my DH and I eat less meat than we used to.

My son in law makes a delicious roast with all the trimmings for us from time to time - much better than I could do. In the meantime I'm not one for cooking really unless I'm properly in the mood.

Sunday Roast? you cook it I’ll eat it😋
Ps. Make extra gravy

In early adulthood I rarely cooked a roast, despite it having been a staple growing up. Now I do much more - although not weekly. My just adult children like a roast and I think they will be the same.

Since my sisters illness and now not working, i do a roast every week as this is one meal she really enjoys

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We always have a Sunday Roast apart from July & August when it is warm, as do our AC.

same here

It is an expensive meal though, so I can get why people may not cook it. That said, a 1.5kg chicken is 60 minutes in the air fryer and the juices easily make a nice gravy (or soup) and the bones make a stock, so another meal