Whereabouts are you, and what’s on your roast dinner?

[TigerGolf]

I love a roast, but am bored and need some inspiration. Therefore, just for fun, I’ll start….

North West

Usually roast chicken or gammon, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, honey glazed carrots, tender stem broccoli, cauliflower cheese, Yorkshire puddings and gravy. All homemade.

Norfolk
Loin of Pork on the bone, Rib Beef or leg of lamb. Summer - New potatoes and baby carrots - All other seasons roasties and/or mash, roasted carrots - roast parsnips, roast shallots, greens, broccoli, sprouts, peas, spring greens, swede, cauliflower cheese, stuffing yuuuuuummmmmmm oh and loads of gravy and York’s with everything. Everything made from scratch.

East Anglia
Growing up, always beef, we never had chicken. I wonder if it was cheaper? Certainly the other way round now!
Mashed potatoes, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, peas, carrots, Yorkshire puddings, cauliflower & bisto gravy. DH is horrified at the bisto but I could happily drink it from the jug, it reminds me so much of my childhood when we’d have a roast every Sunday at my grandparents without fail.

Roast chicken with red currant jelly, garlic & tarragon white wine gravy or

Slow roast pork shoulder with crackling, apple sauce and mustardy Sherry gravy or

Beef joint, garlic and red wine gravy, horseradish sauce

Beef dripping roast potatoes
Yorkshire's
Stuffing
Roasted carrots
Broccoli
Cauli cheese
Whatever other green veg is in the fridge

I miss roast dinners. WW is not the same. I might have one as next weeks treat meal.

Ohhh. Herts.

North west

Roast chicken, beef or lamb
Mashed potatoes
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnip
Boiled Carrots
Boiled Brocolli
Boiled white cabbage or spring greens
Lashings of gravy made from the juices NOT BISTO (although I eat bisto with other foods)
Occasionally a few Yorkshire puddings

South East.
Roast potatoes (although sometimes dauphinoise with lamb)

Veg depends on the meat but nearly always carrots.
Cauliflower cheese only ever with gammon.
Yorkshires only with beef.
Loads of proper gravy and a minimum of 3 veg (not counting the spuds and/or parsnips)

South east, but raised in the north east.

If beef: roast beef, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, green veg (usually broccoli and Spring greens puréed with butter), red wine gravy.

If lamb: as beef, but buttery spinach and asparagus for the veg.

If chicken: roast potatoes, broccoli, peas, maybe some buttered leeks or courgettes, white wine gravy. No Yorkshires.

I don't tend to do roast pork, as I'm the only one who likes it.

I was brought up having at least two kinds of potatoes with a roast (roasties and New), sometimes three (mash), but I frankly can't be bothered.

God I'm starving not even having a roast tomorrow

@SaveWaterDrinkGin

I’m a northerner and think mash on a roast dinner is absolute madness!

We didn’t have mash on a roast growing up, but my DD doesn’t like roasties, so the mash is for her (but we all have a spoonful too).

Mmm, some lovely ideas here. We also occasionally have carrot and turnip (swede but my parents call it turnip) - mashed with lots of butter, salt and white pepper…divine!

In the winter I make shredded sprouts with pancetta. I normally eat half of it from the pan before it makes it to the table.

I’ve just noticed that I said mine was homemade, the Yorkshire’s aren’t but everything else is. They’re too much of a faff to do them from scratch every week (all that screaming hot fat and keep the oven door shut malarkey), but I do make them if we’re having rib of beef. This is usually once once or twice a year because it’s so bloody expensive.

South East.

Only have Yorkshire pudding with beef. Although lately I've been having the frozen ones with any roast instead of spuds, because they're only 1 WW point each.

Anyway. Our most frequent roast is roast chicken, with sage & onion stuffing balls, broccoli, peas, roast spuds (for everyone else), bread sauce and gravy.

My favourite roast is the one I had growing up. Lamb, with homemade mint sauce, cauliflower (un-cheesed), minted peas, toast potatoes, runner beans and my dad's epic gravy. I'd wake up late and hear Radio 3 playing in the kitchen, and Dad would be cutting up the beans, while our insane dog begged for scraps (she loved them).

I don’t know anyone IRL who has cauliflower cheese, it sounds very bizarre with a roast dinner.

Loads of crispy roast potatoes are essential

South Wales

Roast chicken
Enough gravy to sink a ship
Yorkshires (always have them whatever the meat is)
Stuffing
Potatoes
Cabbage
Carrots
Peas
Garlic bread (do not knock garlic bread dipped in gravy until you have tried it).
If a special occasion then also pigs in blankets.

Somerset, and tonight's roast was duck legs, orange gravy, roasted potatoes, roasted carrots, parsnips, courgette and cabbage.

Never cauliflower cheese with roast at home - cauliflower cheese as a totally separate meal itself.

Me and DH are vegetarian so will have something like nut roast or goats cheese and caramelized red onion tarts with roast potates, roast parsnips, mashed parnips, peas, carrots and at least 2 other veg which could be buttered cabbage, cauliflower, brocolli, green beans, broad beans, yorkshire pudding.

Sometimes we have stuffing as we both like it. We never have gravy as neither of us like it.

We are Londoners but now live in East Midlands

Gammon roast potatoes and cauliflower cheese is the dogs doodahs it's my fav but the family aren't. Keen so I rarely have it.

Cauliflower cheese is very important

Now Sussex (from Wales and Kent):
Roast meat and associated sauces (mint/apple/horseradish etc)
Roast potatoes, parsnips, carrots and shallots
Cauli cheese or cheesy leeks
Yorkies
Red cabbage
Broccoli
Suede (mashed)
Peas (I like them)
Roast fennel if in season and it's pork

Why are you asking this? It's Saturday? I've eaten a burger 🤣😂wrong day

@Minster2012

Why are you asking this? It's Saturday? I've eaten a burger 🤣😂wrong day

Ha ha, sorry!! For inspiration for tomorrow, of course!!

North West. Roast chicken, roast potatoes, mash, roasted carrots, peas, broccoli 🥦 cauliflower cheese, loads of gravy. Couple of Yorkshire pudding and sometimes sprouts. All homemade. I have mint sauce too but husband hates it.

I have 3 main roast dinner variations:

Standard autumn/ winter roast - chicken, beef or pork with roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, stuffing, carrot and swede mash, cauli cheese, honey roast parsnips, broccoli, peas and gravy

Spring/ summer roast - roast chicken or lamb with herby roasted new potatoes, roasted carrots, spring greens, minty peas and gravy

Midweek mini roast - easy meat such as chicken/ gammon or even sausages with frozen roast potatoes, stuffing balls, Yorkshire puds and whatever veg we have in the freezer with gravy (pretty much all frozen aside from meat and gravy so minimal prep)

We vary this depending on what we fancy but those are the 3 main types, we usually have some sort of roast once every 2 weeks.

We are in south east

Chicken, pigs in blankets, stuffing, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, carrot and swede mash, roast carrot or parsnip depending on season sometimes cauliflower cheese or cheesy leeks and a green vegetable. Redcurrant Jelly and Mustard

Beef, Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, carrot and swede mash something cheesy and some greens. Horseradish and mustard.

Pork, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, creamy leeks, carrots and a green. Apple sauce and mustard.

Lamb, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, creamy leeks, cabbage and mint sauce.

Gammon, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes cauliflower and broccoli cheese and peas

Forgot mustard with the gammon.