Describe your perfect roast dinner

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Looking for some inspiration for Christmas and general tips for the perfect roast dinner!

Mine would be:

Roast beef, rib cut
Roast potatoes, coated with honey
A small amount of creamy mash, with a sneaky tiny bit of cheese in it
A large homemade Yorkshire pudding, a bit squidgy in the middle
Roast carrots, parsnips and broccoli
Nice thick gravy made from meat juices with added gravy granules
Pigs in blankets

Which items would you add or take away, and how can these items be improved?
For roasts, I eat anything except lamb and cauliflower.

Please inspire me!

Rare beef - rib or sirloin
Goose fat potatoes
Mashed potato
Honey and mustard roasted carrots
Honey and mustard roasted parsnips
Braised red cabbage with apple
Pigs in blankets
Petit pos peas
Brussel Sprouts with chestnuts and pancetta
Yorkshire Puddings - made with beef dripping
Stuffing (sausage meat)
Gravy made with the beef juices

Roast pork with crackling
Stuffing
Apple sauce
Mountain of roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Cauliflower cheese
Carrots
Broccoli
Yorkies

Cooked by someone else.

General roast:

Juicy lamb shank or shoulder
Creamy buttery mash
Crisp roast potatoes
Peas
Broccoli
Roast parsnips
Loads of proper gravy
Loads of mint sauce

Christmas Dinner:

Juicy turkey or gammon
Buttery mash
Crispy roast potatoes
Peas
Brussels sprouts roasted with chestnuts and pancetta
Roast parsnips and carrots
Braised red cabbage
Pigs in blankets
Sage & onion stuffing
Loads of proper gravy
Cranberry sauce / dijon mustard

I would do honey roast carrots rather than adding honey to the potatoes. Also I love bread sauce too so would usually lean in favour of chicken or turkey at Christmas, but I do love roast beef too.
Parsnips also crucial, nice with sage.
Cauliflower/broccoli cheese?

Roast lamb
Goose fat roast potatoes with rosemary or possibly dauphinois if made well!
Meat juice gravy
Mint sauce
Roast parsnips and onions
Peas, broccoli and asparagus
Swede and carrot mash
Cauliflower cheese
Yorkshire pudding
Sausage meat and chestnut stuffing

Explains why I am a porker!

Roast leg of pork
Roast potatoes (King Edwards) in goose fat
Sage & onion stuffing
Sprouts
Carrots & celery braised together
Bramley apple sauce
Port gravy
Redcurrant jelly

Rosemary and garlic lamb.
Or salt an pepper pork plus crispy crackling.
Sage and onion stuffing.
Gravy with meat juices.
Roast carrots & onion wedges (cooked with potatoes to give potatoes a flavour. Often put lemon wedges in there too)
Boiled broccoli or cauliflower and broccoli cheese.
Cabbage and apple (if doing pork)

Oh and Yorkshire puds of course!

This will be a controversial one but I always have rice with my roasts (as well as roast potatoes). My family have always had it and it is so perfect for soaking up gravy

Until I had potatoes dauphinoise with a Christmas roast, I'd never have considered it.
Now I can't think of one without!

A large Yorkshire pudding cut up and served with onion gravy as a starter (no gravy granules, made from meat juices).

Rare rib of beef
Roast potatoes in goose fat
Steamed broccoli, carrots
Mashed swede
Onion gravy
Horseradish sauce
Slices of onion and cucumber in malt gravy, prepared earlier in the day.

Nothing sweet, so no parsnips, no honey or maple syrup glazes, nothing creamy or cheesy.

This will be a controversial one but I always have rice with my roasts (as well as roast potatoes).

@Peanut91 Just plain boiled white rice?

Roast pork and plenty of crackling
Roast potatoes in marmite
Honey roast parsnips and carrots
Spiced red cabbage
Mustard cauliflower cheese
Sage onion and walnut sausage stuffing
Gravy
Apple sauce
Sticky toffee pudding with custard for pud

Rare roast beef
Mustard mashed potato
Roast potatoes
Honey roasted parsnips & carrots
Something green
Yorkshire pudding
Vinegar soaked raw onions
Gravy so thick it's practically a life form

Apple & choc chip crumble and custard for afters.

Chicken or turkey
Mashed potato (lots)
Roast potatoes done in goose fat
Roast parsnips
Sprouts
Red cabbage
Cauliflower cheese
Stuffing
Loads of gravy

^ just had a lovely roast that included all of this bar the parsnips and sprouts. 😋

My perfect Christmas roast

Turkey
Honey glazed gammon
Roast potatoes goose fat
Mash potatoes
Stuffing
Pigs in blanket and lots of em
Roast carrots and parsnips in honey
Brussel sprouts boiled and then sautéed for a couple of minutes in orange butter
Peas (for the kids and as an emergency veg if anything goes wrong!)
Cranberry jelly
Gravy (going against the grain but I prefer Bisto to proper meat juice gravy!)
Apple sauce

Oh and wine to go with it all!

My cucumber and onion should be in malt vinegar, not malt gravy, silly me.

Roast chicken stuffed with oranges and tarragon

Maris piper roast potatoes with garlic, rosemary and goose fat

Honey and mustard roasted carrots and parsnips

All the stuffing

Roast chicken
Gravy
Roast & mashed potatoes
Chestnut stuffing
Skirlie
Chipolatas
Streaky bacon rolled up (separate to the chipolatas never around the chipolatas)
Honey roast parsnips
Red cabbage
Carrots
2 sprouts (if it's Christmas)

For Christmas, turkey, roast potatoes (cooked with normal oil, lovely and crispy), mashed potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, pigs in blankets, Corkers sausage meat stuffing balls mixed with home made sage & onion stuffing, home made sage & onion stuffing by itself, sprouts with pancetta, honey glazed parsnips, swede, peas, carrots, broccoli, sweet corn and Jamie Oliver’s chicken gravy recipe. It’s a pain to make (ten chicken wings and a million other ingredients) but bloody lovely.

For normal Sunday roasts, chicken, butterfly lamb or pork, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, pigs in blankets, home made sage & onion stuffing and normal veg. Gravy is home made but the quick kind from the meat juices.

Huge roast rib of beef plus:

• roast potatoes (cooked in beef dripping)

• Yorkshire Puddings (also using dripping)

• Mashed potato

• buttered carrot battons (not coins) with parsley

• cauliflower cheese

• green veg mix of tenderstem brocoli, french beans and Savoy cabbage dressed in butter with black pepper

• lashings (and I do mean lashings) of homemade gravy using the meat juices, homemade beef stock (using the bones of the last rib roast) and reduced red wine with a small grating of horseradish

• Homemade (hot) Horseradish sauce

Then loads of leftovers to make bubble and squeak with cold beef and leftover gravy the next day...

...and roast beef sandwiches with roasted onions that can be dipped in the last of the gravy the day after that...

Any leftover beef/gravy gets made into homemade pasties with onion, potato and turnip/swede (though it's rare we get that far as it's too nice).