Are Sunday roasts still a thing in your house?

[Bobje]

Will be picking up a lovely piece of beef rib today from the butchers.
It will be our first roast of the season and I'm looking forward to it already!
<greedy guts> 😆

Do you still do Sunday roasts?

Yes pretty much every Sunday all year round and sometimes during the week. There are only 3 of us though so prep is minimal and I cook all the vegetables that are roasted in one pan and all the vegetables that are not roasted in one saucepan, and then the 'roast' itself can be cooked in various ways like slow cooker so again minimal fuss as just put meat in and leave it. Gravy is out of a packet. If I use pork steaks and frozen roast potatoes, I can bang out a roast dinner in 30 mins.

We do have a chicken roast dinner with veg, yorkies, roast potatoes, gravy, but only when we feel like it. Which is no very often.

Yes, usually every week. It’s a firm favourite in the house.

DD1 in particular is most put out if we have any other meal on a Sunday. We had pasta once, it was probably up there as one of the worst days of her life.

We sometimes have a midweek roast too.

Depends on the roast.
It is a lot of cooking but I do it quite slowly, teens at kitchen table, admittedly it would be different if there wasn't a table in the kitchen. Sunday chilled radio on, homework and conversation, washing up as you go along.

So it's usually, chilled but productive time preparing for week ahead.

Clearly it doesn't have to be a roast but being in a productive kitchen with people and music when its hammering down with rain is one of my enjoyments. I know so people hate it. And a roast fits into this really well. As does a multi curry, dal, the works, like that as well.

I actually miss it in the summer months.

I do everything from scratch including the Yorkshires, when we have them which isn't very often as we only have them with beef, and the gravy. The only thing that comes out of a packet is the stuffing. I usually do three veg sides, two of which will be roasted and then a boiled (and dressed, crucially!!) or crushed one as well. Sometimes a (massive MN 😉) salad too. However I use plenty of butter or EVO, salt and aromatics - all the things that make things delicious, so the veg isn't bland even if it's just been boiled.

I think it just comes down to the individual - I find it a very relaxing meal to make as it takes no thinking at all, whereas some people do find them a hassle or even intimidating. There are plenty of dishes I don't make that often because I find the process tiring, especially if I'm cooking from a cuisine that I might not be as familiar with.

Hmmm all this talk of roast dinners is making me hungry - I fancy roast lamb! Greek style this time, I think. Might put that on the menu for next Sunday if I can swing it to make a trip to the farm shop.

Salad with a roast?!

Depends on what sort of meal I'm making. If I do Greek lamb with lemon potatoes I might do a Greek salad on the side, for example. As I said in previous comment, I don't always make a traditional roast - as long as the bird or joint is roasted, I call it a roast! I'm not from the UK - see username - so I figure I have a bit of leeway. 😁

Are you me? 😆

Every 3/4 weeks in the winter. Never between Easter and September.

Because there's only two of us now we either go out for lunch or order one to take away, less hassle and less washing up.

Probably once a month or so over winter usually about 5 o'clock rather than lunchtime, sometimes do a midweek roast which is essentially a chicken and then a tray of new potatoes and root veg all mixed together with herbs and garlic roasted. Takes as long as a chicken takes to cook so just over an hour

Interesting that some people don't do it for just 2.

DH and I love doing one when DD is away, sleepover, camp etc as she hates lamb and we love it.

DH likes that he has at least one lunch from leftovers and normally one or two portions of meat with gravy end in the freezer for him.

I love it when Sainsbury's have their lamb offer, I don't do my main shopping there but there's one near my office, thanks for the tip I'll be getting a leg of lamb on Monday!

We don't bother for just two as we have a tiny kitchen and no dishwasher, so it's a lot of faffing about with timings and washing up for a meal that will be eaten in 15 minutes.

We go out for Sunday lunch instead.

Not regularly no, when we fancy one. Usually chicken as its cheap and difficult to get wrong.

We always try to get together on a Sunday, more so since my dad died and mum is on her own. We used to all go back to ‘home’ but since my partner and I got our own place we share it more. I love the act of cooking for a crowd so never mind doing it, and it’s usually a roast but might become pasta, barbecue etc in the summer.

I grew up in a family where roasts happened every Sunday from October-April, and May-September, come rain or shine it was a Sunday BBQ.

My boyfriend grew up in a family where roasts were few and far between, and I’m slowly introducing him to the idea of one every Sunday.
We have a relatively active social life so feasibly don’t have time to make one every single Sunday, but in autumn/winter we aim for a roast but if we’ve been busy in the day we’ll at least do something similar like a shop bought pie and roast potatoes and veg.
I love it- there’s something so comforting about it to me!

There're only two of us. It's not quite the proverbial MN roast chicken, but yesterday's was a good size and we will get a hearty sandwich out of it for DH for lunch today, filling for a pie which I will freeze for another time, meat for a soup and I will also make a cup or so of stock from the carcass, which I will drink for the nutrients and goodness in it!

However I do understand that if you're not all that keen it might be a waste of time and effort to cook this sort of meal just for two. Depends on the individual, doesn't it.

No we don't. Partly as we are out taking kids to their clubs on Sundays and partly because I do the washing up and it uses every pan we have and hate washing greasy roast tins. The main reason though is 3 out of 4 of us either dislike or are ambivalent about a roast so the time and effort isn't worth it.

We don't eat meat so no but we do have a bit of a more elaborate dinner on a Sunday. We also tend to do brunch then dinner and a pudding on Sundays.

Most definitely - so easy to do and DDog and cats if it’s chicken love theirs too

Exactly this.

The kind of traditional roast I don't think is bland requires things like meat that's been browned first, homemade stuffing and Yorkshire pudding, gravy also made in the roasting tin, goose fat roast potatoes that have been par boiled then roughed up with flour first, different herbs, veg definitely not just boiled and only seasoned with salt and pepper. A great roast for me also ends in a homemade dessert. 😂

A delicious roast worth doing takes time and effort. I'm not saying hours and hours but it's definitely not a chuck in the oven and leave it thing. Of course it can be made as difficult or easy as you like, as my grandma's is - which really isn't very tasty. My Christmas roasties I put the most effort into are constantly basted for example.