Roast every Sunday?

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Do people still do this? Part of me wants to do this... But maybe I'll get bored of one every Sunday?

I cook the roast dinner every Sunday. I’m female, and the one who usually cooks in the house.

But I cook a roast dinner on a Sunday precisely because it’s such a low effort meal. That’s why it’s a Sunday meal in the first place, historically, to be as little work as possible on the Christian sabbath to allow everyone, including women, to attend church and not be stuck cooking!

No bread would be cooked on a Sunday as that was lots of time and effort so for once the oven would be free for something else. The meat was the celebration part for the special day, if it could be afforded, but the whole principle of the roast is to put the things you are roasting in the oven and then remove them from the oven later to eat. Same as Christmas Day, a celebration meal designed to be as fancy as possible for as little effort as possible, we now have all mod cons and convenience food so the goalposts have shifted.

But the roast dinner is literally supposed to be the convenience food of its day. The very first lazy meal/takeaway.

Why on earth would "doing a roast" take more than about an hour (I am assuming a big roast here) in the kitchen?

Surely you just combine the chores with a bit of washing or cleaning?

Yes, unless it's too hot and then we have a bbq. It's become part of my meal planning. Roast on a Sunday then left overs on Monday and sometimes Tuesday.

Too late to edit, but DD(17) and/or DH can whack out a roast with a simple discussion about what veg to use.

Leave the internet immediately.

Well,.it doesn't take a day...

The Sunday roast was very much the thing when I was going up.
A long-standing tradition that very seldom varied in any way.

Fast forward to me having my own home, a DH from another country, and the DC's.

I honestly can't remember the last time I prepared a roast of beef with all the standard accompaniments.
These days everyone wants to eat light, fresh meals, lots of diverse salads, vegetables, very little meat, potatoes are not often on the menu.

In my memory I think back to my mum giving me, after the roast was done, a slice of bread, oven fried in the glistening dark brown drippings from the roasting pan, and my stomach now heaves with the thought of the grease!
However back then it was considered a treat, much anticipated.

It's really quite lovely to know that there are still so many who abide by the old tradition of a roast of beef on a Sunday.

My dad and I do alternate weeks! I love it, my student dc come home, often with partners, and it's lovely to have the whole family together. I really don't find it that much hassle as I enjoy cooking

Well in my house it's definitely me and that's fantastic. A nice chilled morning in the kitchen, drinking tea, cooking lunch and listening to the radio. Meanwhile dh got to freeze his arse off on the side of various sports pitches whilst various offspring did their stuff. Then after lunch they wash up and I slope off. Magic.

I'm just a winter roast dinner maker though. When the weather warms up we mix it up.

Sundays are for roasts especially in the colder months!

I do a roast most Sundays, one of my favourite time of the week

I do a roast about once a week but its not always on a Sunday. I quite like a Friday night roast, or mid week.

I wouldn't commit to every week. Make one this weekend and see how you feel next weekend?

I suspect if you dont find it a hassle to cook it would be nice every week.

We always have a roast other "special" meal on Sunday if we have no other plans. Usually there will be some family that join us or some of DH's colleagues that live away from family. Most weekends there will be between 6 and 10 dining and its a day I really enjoy and I think our guests do too!!

My parents cook a roast every Sunday which we are always invited to.

It was a childhood given when we were growing up, a tradition that my parents kept up even when the kids had left home and it was just the two of them. It's not something DH and I have ever really bothered with on a regular basis as there's just the 2 of us (no kids).

When Mum & Dad reached the stage where they needed some support in their twilight years, we had them come live with us for the last 3 years of their lives. During those 3 years, I could count on my hands how many times I didn't do a roast dinner on Sunday, unless we were all out for the day. They both died early last year within weeks of each other, and it is rather poignant that Sunday dinner was the last 'proper' meal they both had.

It's not something we've kept up ourselves, but a Sunday roast will forever hold a warm, fuzzy place in my heart for all the reasons above!

Not here. We like a roast but it's a lot of work. Albeit the leftovers do for another night. I might do a roast every 4 weeks.

My most frequent roast is roast chicken but that feels like a good weeknight meal.

Sundays I do allsorts: carbonara is an easy quick one if we have a large brunch. I did grilled hake with airfried veg last Sunday. I quite like variation on fish or chicken tacos as it has a treat feel to it. I quite like fish on a Sunday as it can be expensive so again feels treat-like.

We have one pretty much every Sunday. We rotate the meats, so we had chicken yesterday and we’ll have pork next time, beef, lamb. Occasionally we’ll have a pie instead of the meat. We have chicken left from yesterday, so we’ll use that for a stir fry.

I still do this, I love a Sunday dinner!

I love cooking and got into the habit of cooking a Sunday roast about two years ago. Genuinely love it- feels very comforting and relaxing.

I cook, my husband preps and cleans up afterwards.

Depending on what protein we’re having, I can typically get a roast on the table in 90mins. Nice bottle of red to go with it, and it makes for a very enjoyable Sunday dinner.

Sundays I usually do a dinner we consider a bit special, often involving a roast something, not always meat, with roast potatoes. Sometimes I do fondant or dauphinoise, or buttery mash of it goes better with whatever we are having. And I make a pudding of some sort. I like doing it, even if its just the two of us.

And actually, meant to say, I often do a roast chicken in the airfryer. Absolute godsend and the meat comes out incredibly evenly cooked, and juicy.

I find it handy in the summer if because it’s so much less heat that having the oven going. Roast chicken eaten outdoors with some salad or airfryer baby potatoes is just lovely.

Maybe once a month, hardly ever in Summer.

I like it but I also like other dishes which takes more time than I have under the week so we swap around.

It's always dinner though, never lunch.

No, 4 or 5x a year is enough for us, one of the DC actively dislikes it and woould rather have just about any other meal, but even before that it’s not a habit I wanted to get into. Thankfully my parents bailed on it when I was about 8 so I didn’t grow up having to have one every Sunday. There are lots of other things I’d rather do with my Sunday afternoons. When we do do it we keep it fairly simple, normally chicken or beef, yorkshires, gravy, roast potatoes, broccoli and carrots. We don’t have time on weeknights.

I love it.
I love standing in the kitchen and cooking a roast, it is how I want to spend my Sunday now the kids are older. I do everything, all the trimmings, have a ongoing netflix in the back ground or music.

The kids and my DH do their thing during the day and all come home for Sunday Roast, often with girlfriends/boyfriends or just friends in tow.

Funny as I hate all other cooking, especially weeknights and DH does most of that