Sunday Lunch - What’s Missing?

[HostieForARoastie]

I’ve for 6 coming for Sunday lunch. No vegetarians. Doing roast chicken as I know I cook a blinding one. Broccoli is delicious but has no place on a roast IMHO, however one of my guests has a weakness for it with chicken so, absolutely, I’m serving it. Same with Yorkshires - I’m not a fan but I know others are, so Yorkies it is. Two types of potatoes because we are Irish and it’s the Irish Law.

To be clear, all of the below is being served and will be (to use the MN term) ‘cooked from scratch’. What I’m looking for is: Anything Missing?

Roast chicken (with lemon rind, thyme, pancetta mixed with butter and stuffed under the skin)
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing (chestnut based)
Cauliflower cheese
Red cabbage
Roasted carrots (& boiled carrots in case they become blacker than my soul)
Roasted parsnips
Roast potatoes
Mashed potatoes
Yorkshires
Runner beans
Broccoli
Peas (and maybe sprouts)
Gravy
Bread sauce (maaaaaaybe)

Pudding will be a Blackberry Pavlova with all the creams / ice creams etc.

I want my guests to be more than replete at the end; I want them reminiscent of a landed, red cheeked and rounded bodied Georgian countryman tasting the bounty of his green and pleasant fields, whose breaches burst as as he reaches for the port. Human and modern day Toby Jugs if you like. To speak of this meal in tones of awe and glory (I’ll be giving them enough booze to ensure this) and to have enough left over to feed us for an evening of picking days.

What have I forgotten?

Sweetcorn? Oh my days it's not Wetherspoons

It sounds delicious but, as someone with a sweet tooth, I am seriously disturbed by your vegetable:pudding ratio. I feel less veg and more pudding would be the decent thing thing to if you want to avoid social suicide.

People who like vegetables?

Did anyone mention bread sauce? With properly infused milk?

@HostieForARoastie That menu is truly the Sunday lunch of champions. <salutes>
Please let us know how it goes. Vicarious pleasure an' all.

How did it go OP? Do we have photos?

No photos I’m afraid - don’t post pics of my house online at all. And anyway, getting it all to the table on time (and hot) was enough to cope with!

All went well - Yorshires were a disaster (fat wasn’t hot enough) so they got binned and some of the parsnips were burnt to a cinder but the chicken, potatoes, gravy, cauliflower cheese, mash, red cabbage, carrot and swede mash and the stuffing were tip top! Greens were grand too (peas, broccoli and then leeks and cabbage with lardons in butter). Some of the pigs in blankets were a little … ‘charred’ shall we say but nothing the gravy couldn’t revive! The gravy and stuffing were epic tbf!

I started cooking this meal on Friday afternoon!

Guests left at 7.30. Just rinsed the dishes for the next dishwasher load (tomorrow…) and about to collapse with a fucking enormous glass of red.