Sunday Dinner/Lunch... (lighthearted, this isn't AIBU)

[MitziK]

Do you have a full roast? At 2pm like a normal human being or later?

My ideal is full roast, spuds (preferably two types or one and roast parsnips), at least three types of veggies including something from the cabbage family, something green and one other (carrots, swede, etc) and a bucketload of thick gravy, followed by a proper baked pudding or homemade cakes around teatime.

DP doesn't think like this. He has previously suggested that, with Christmas falling midweek, it wasn't necessary to have a roast dinner for the two Sundays previously and would, in all honesty, be happy with a packet of crisps and a Pot Noodle during the day and a slice of pizza late in the evening. He has still cooked them (he insists on monopolising the kitchen and shopping), but they've been somewhat hit and miss and the time has slipped from 6pm to 'it'll be ready soon' at 10.45pm last week at which point I lost my fucking shit at him.

Anyway, obviously remembering last week's shit fit, he is just about making gravy now. Which is good. It feels right. And saves me from staging a chickenwing coup with the TwatCats and forcibly occupying the kitchen in order to cook.

What are your opinions on food on Sundays?

Should there be a large breakfast, then dinner by 2, then tea?

Are you more of a heathen monster pizza and chips person?

Is it 6pm? 8pm?

How many veggies/types of potatoes?

Or is Sunday Dinner not a thing anymore?

We have brunch around 11ish then full roast dinner at 5.30. One of us baths the dc and one cleans up then dessert watching a film.

We do like a Sunday roast fairly often, but not every week.

We don’t have it early, because I am a slow, slow riser if at all possible and I like to take my time on Sundays which is my proper relaxing day, so we often don’t have breakfast (really a late brunch...)until about midday or sometimes even later.

Love a roast on a Sunday- although secretly could forego the meat and just have roast potatoes, drowned in gravy.

I don't do Sunday roasts once the clocks have gone forward. I'll usually do a leg of lamb for Easter Sunday, but even then it's unlikely to be be a roast on the Lucullan scale of Christmas lunch; probably just dauphinoise potatoes and some green vegetables. Roasts are always the evening meal for us, except for Christmas day and Easter Sunday.

We have lunch at church every week (potluck) so don't need to cook lunch.

We have a roast dinner at around 6:30-7.

We have a roast (usually lamb) nearly every Sunday. Depends on my husbands workload as to what time. Usually it's breakfast at 7, kids have a mid morning fruit snack (or 4) then lunch at 1pm and a light dinner later.

We also have a roast chicken dinner midweek. We love roasts

We don't have Sunday roasts often - DP's working days change frequently, and his hours cover dinner time, and necessitate an early lunch - and there's just not enough hours in the day to pull together a full roast for noon with all the other jobs we cram into the mornings.

We'll occasionally do a roast on a random day off, it doesn't feel any less special for not being on a Sunday, and will usually be an evening meal. For Christmas, it's definitely early afternoon, though - time to digest before bed!

This thread has made me hungry and grumpy! I've got roast for dinner tonight but have realised that I now NEED (and I'm pregnant, so it's a serious need here) cauliflower cheese with it.
But the only shops I could get to (with no car and 2 small DC in tow) will close before I can get there 😭 my day is now ruined.

Anyway. Your roast sounds lush OP! I'd love a 2pm roast lunch but we're out at church in the morning and have an oven with no timer function. Also the DC nap around 2 and DH is out all afternoon with his hobby so it's just not ment to be atm.
So we have ours at 6pm. Although it's not always a roast, it's generally something more special/expensive than what we have midweek. A side of salmon or whole rainbow trouts. Mmm.

Can anyone get a cauliflower to me before 5pm?!

I’ll often cook a roast for around 7pm on a Sunday, any earlier & it feels like the afternoon is wasted (due to large amounts of wine being consumed with a roast meal).

Breakfast is usually cooked on a Sunday, followed by Church, lunch is a sandwich type meal (left over Chinese today ), often go for a walk on Sunday afternoon & then a roast in the evening.

I cant wait for my roast dinner, chicken with all the trimmings. I am currently eating only one meal a day which I shall have about 5pm cant wait!

Because the oven has two temperatures - off and hotter than the surface of the sun - roasts are done in the slow cooker. Turned out that he hadn't switched the chicken on until 5pm and then he'd put it on low. As part of my shit fit, I went to bed.

Today's pork was switched on this morning, leaving the oven to deal with roasties and crackling.

It took about ten minutes to clean up afterwards, if that.

I'd absolutely LOVE a leg of lamb or a beef rib for Easter. If I'm in charge of dealing with it. As I'm off work for a couple of days, I'm going to have a look in the supermarket for something to stick in the freezer. And some fresh rosemary from the garden. Mmmmmm.

See? This is how important a Sunday Roast is - I'm planning one for a fortnight's time in less than two hours from the last!

Normally about 2 but for some reason today it will be about 5.And i already have a mutiny in the house.Asking me very minute when it will be cooked.I dont like eating this late,i rather my dinner earlier and a nice tea.

My husband works (head chef) every Sunday and gets home about 5, so I tend to have a roast dinner on the table for about 6pm.

I'd like it earlier but not possible.

Full roast, loads of veg!

I'm 38 weeks pregnant now though and it's getting pretty tough peeling and prepping as well as having a 2 year old running round.
I'd love someone to make me a Sunday roast!

I'm due Easter Day so partner will be on paternity then hopefully and he can do all the Easter cooking!!!!

I grew up in a house where sunday dinner was at 1pm.

It wasn't the best when we were teenagers as after a long lie in it felt like having a roast dinner for breakfast.

I'm doing a roast today, although as it's only the two of us I don't do them that often. It will be served around 6pm which is earlier than I'd usually have tea, but allows me to have a pudding later on in the evening.

Roast beef, Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes, roast parsnip, roast shallots and potch and some peas for the husband with lots of gravy which will start of as homemade but no doubt will require rescuing with some granules.... 🙄

Easy lifesaver - frozen cauliflower and a bag of good cheese grated and stuck in the freezer. All you need do is knock up a white sauce, pop the cauli into boiling water/microwave, add the grated cheese and it's ready. If you don't go for ding dinner ones (the Tesco Finest is actually edible, though).

We tend to have our roast on Saturdays or midweek as I work on Sunday afternoons.

I'll do it for about 5/6pm, which means decent breakfast and a snacky light lunch. It's this time as I still have young DC who go to bed at 7 and 8pm. Sometimes I do roast for lunch on Saturday and then light tea.

Didn't have roasts growing up, maybe sausages and mash or something stodgy like that.

I fancied a roast chicken, but I'm cooking with orzo, roasted lemons and sprouting broccoli. After reading this thread I'm having gravy withdrawals 😫

Alright MitziK don't be flaunting your cauliflower at me!
But frozen cauli has now been added to the online shop for this week. Thanks.

We have them on Sunday once or twice a month at 2pm. And sometimes I'll do a Friday night one like the Barefoot Contessa or a midweek one as a pick me up. Love a roast.
Chicken, pork or beef.
Stuffing always
Yorkshires always
Roast potatoes
Mashed root veg, (sweet pot, Swede, carrot or a mixture)
Broccoli/carrots
Peas/sprouts/green beans
or other veg.
Gravy.
Yum.
Had KFC today. Not the same.

Rarely have traditional roasts here. Usually just Christmas and Easter (and I'm hoping this Easter PIL decide to host us all )

Other than me, no-one is mad about them.

I do more non traditional versions (lamb neck fillets, minted new potatoes and veg or roast chicken with garlic mash and salad or mustard pork medallions with cubed parmesan potatoes and green veg) but not usually on a Sunday.

Today it's jacket spuds with a choice of toppings.

I grew up in a house where we had Sunday roasts every week at 2.30pm. Was totally fed up of them by the time I left home and my mum wasn't the most gifted roast dinner chef

Roast at 1:30 pm-ish here. Today was roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, mashed potato, carrots, tenderstem broccoli, white cabbage and gravy. Tea/supper will be crumpets or sandwiches at about 7pm.

The only time we'd have a roast for lunch is if we went out. Even Christmas dinner is usually closer to 4pm.

We don't have a roast every week, maybe every 4-6 weeks. We're having one today as I've just been shopping and will probably have roast lamb over Easter then that'll be it until autumn unless we go out with MIL.

Sunday lunch was at 2.00pm growing up with mum & dad but it's now at about 6 or even 7 if I do one. Not doing one today but we are having chicken thighs cooked in a tin of Campbell's condensed mushroom soup with extra mushrooms, peas & carrots, Tesco Finest cauliflower cheese and dauphinois potatoes. I do tend to cook a proper meal even if it's not roast.

Depends what we're doing. If we're up and about doing gardening or on a long walk it'll be a light lunch and some sort of filling stew/casserole. If it's a lazy lounging day then we'll have a roast around late afternoonish time.