When was the last time you cooked a roast dinner?

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I think it was Christmas Day for me!

I used to cook the family a roast dinner every Sunday and thoroughly enjoyed it. Now it’s just me and a teen dc at home and they are really fussy and it’s a lot of food for two if you do a joint and all the works. I like leftovers the next day but they don’t.

Anyway maybe it’s because it’s Mother’s Day, I just thought I’d love a roast now. It’s too busy to go out so I will make the effort to cook next weekend instead. Are you someone who cooks every Sunday or rarely like me?

Every Sunday.........

It is! And very easy.

Chicken with bulb of garlic, red wine vinegar and olive oil.

Once roasted, squeeze the garlic out, whack in the mushrooms and roast in same pan chicken was in (20 or so mins).

Then remove mushrooms, add spinach and lentils, stir on hob till warmed / wilted. Add tarragon leaves, season, stir through crème fraiche.

Plate up, add chicken. Eat.

Also works very well with ‘meaty’ fish such as cod or monkfish (I add a squeeze of lemon and some capers to the garlicky, creamy lentils).

I do one probably every other week during the winter then stop when the weather gets warmer. Well loved in this house - DD doesn’t eat meat but loves yorkshires and the veg

Thanks, @SameSameButDeliverance - will give it a go!

Queen Lizzie's funeral. Had a roast cooking, and was wrapping some Christmas presents as I watched the processions and service.

It was a mere coincidence but given the dual unusual events of my cooking a roast and the monarch's funeral it is memorable 😂

I can’t remember the last time I cooked a roast. DP, however, finished cooking a slow roasted shoulder of lamb with pommes boulangère & truffled cauliflower cheese an hour ago. It was unbelievably good. 😋

(Horrendously expensive high welfare free range) Roast chicken weekly. With roast potatoes from spuds. Gravy from meat juices. Fresh, or frozen, veg depending on availability in local very small supermarket (only one within 2 hour round trip). Roast beef when price is (rarely) financially acceptable. Lamb roast a distant memory due to cost...despite being surrounded by nothing but hills, sheep, and lambs. Was brought up in Highland sheep producing family and ate our home produced meat as a child. Can source locally produced lamb here (high quality and delicious) but prohibitively expensive. £20+ for a few mouthfuls of meat once cooked. Tesco (2 hour round trip) will offer as usual a leg of lamb for £15 or so this Easter. New Zealand lamb though...travelled thousands of miles frozen on container ships! We'll miss our farmers when they're gone 😪 I can do a roast dinner standing on my head, with one hand tied behind my back, and it's always the dinner that brings us all to the table, eaten with enjoyment, and the craic is golden with teenagers. We can sit for hours laughing after a good roast!

About 2 hours ago. We have a roast each Sunday, normally chicken.

On Monday. They are a big favourite.

Almost every Sunday, I enjoy a roast and love that my teen and adult kids, sometimes mum and sisters all get together, as they really enjoy it too. We spend hours eating and chatting.

My DP will prepare the meat, peel veg when he's home (works away).

I have it down to a fine art. It doesn't stop me from enjoying my Sunday. Usually just a chicken, veg, mash, roasties, yorkies a nice gravy, then pud, but sometimes Lamb or Beef when i can be arsed. I have a few wines during cooking.

I didn't do one today, as my DS took me for a fancy lunch for Mother's Day. we actually missed our roast, lol

OMG I love homemade rice pudding. It's so easy to make as well. it just takes ages in the oven. I put cinnamon sticks in mine absolutely delicious 😋

Not since Christmas.

Can't remember when I last did one. There's just me and 16yo DS so it's a lot of effort for just 2 people. If I really fancied one I'd just go out for a carvery. I've got better things to be doing on a Sunday!

I often do a less complex version of a roast once a week (like chicken thighs with packet stuffing, one kind of potato, a veg and instant gravy) or I might just focus on doing just two really good things like a joint of beef with really nice roast potatoes, with a salad for ease.

Partly its becuase I have a small child who doesn't really enjoy much veg but will eat meat and potatoes, so its less waste if I just cook what she will broadly eat plus a bit of extra veg for the adults.

Christmas Day 2022.

Used to be once a week. Even while we lived in Japan we did most weeks.

Now probably once or twice a month.

Last time was last night - a very good beef joint, cauliflower cheese, roast potatoes (in goose fat from Christmas) and Yorkshire puddings.

Tonight. We had beef.
I do a roast most Sundays in the Winter unless we are out for the day.

I’ve never cooked one.

About 30 years ago! I’m not keen on roast dinners. Sundays were a write off when I was a child because of the tyranny of the roast dinner.

We have one every Sunday but had a hello fresh meal today and I missed my roast. I always do extra and have a roast dinner for lunch on a Monday too. I like to set the kids up for the week with a lot of vegetables! We don't have a roast for Christmas dinner though. As we have one every week it doesn't feel special enough for Christmas

Today.

A few weeks ago. Nearly always chicken and or gammon. Rarely beef because it is so expensive and I absolutely hate lamb so I wouldn't ever do that! We went out for a pub carvery today so that I wasn't cooking or cleaning on Mother's Day.

This evening. Live alone - just for me. Do it probably 2 or 3 Sundays a month.

Every Sunday now. As a family we had a roast dinner once a month, but since we lost Mum I have Dad for tea twice a week. Sunday is always a roast, the other day tends to be a casserole, or meat and two veg as Dad doesnt eat pasta or anything spicy. My DH loves it when Dad comes for tea as there is always a pudding!

Shocked at some of these replies (only because I love roast dinners so much) but perhaps my reply is the most shocking... I normally do a roast dinner twice a week (and have been know to cook it more than this) Just me and teen DD but both are vegetarian so I guess it doesnt involve roasting a joint for hours - we usually have a quorn roast, seitan roast, nut roast or toad in the hole. Sometimes with all the trimmings (variation of yorkshires, cauliflower cheese, mash, brussels with veggie bacon, braised onions, stuffing, braised cabbage, swede mash) other times a bit more basic but always with homemade gravy, loads of veg and roast potatoes. I'd honestly be happy to eat it more as roast dinner is absolutey my favourite dinner ever! I also love to cook.