WIBU about Sunday dinner?

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DH thinks I was being unreasonable in planning a roast chicken dinner without either Yorkshires or stuffing. Was I?

But who says they are thegreylady?

Traditionally they weren't just for beef. The first ever mention in a recipe book for them had them with mutton, and the next to go as a course before any roast meat.

The whole beef thing seems a relatively new thing.

I have Yorkshire with everything

Sometimes I just have them on their own (with gravy obvs>

rubbish - yorkshire puddings accompany every roast dinner, and are of course home made. Bit shocked at indiscriminaste use of sides - mint sauce with every roast .
Traditional yorkshire roasts include roast and mashed potatoes!

Sorry, you've sad that you are not keen on roast potatoes. That in itself is extremely U.

Apart from that I'd say if you are cooking them you decide, which is why we had carbonara with pasta bows and broccoli. I don't care what anyone thinks about that because I was cooking, see.

We had a roast chicken with salad and new potatoes, is that vvvu??

Eek sorry! It was just too hot today for all that faffing with all the pans. I have saved the gravy for tomorrow with leftover chicken and chips yum

That's what we had today too ceeveebee, and it will be something in the variation of for the next few months.

We don't have yorkshire puddings with roast chicken (but would with either beef or pork), which is what we had tonight. And stuffing is too much faff when there are only two of us eating and a small chicken will last us half the week anyway. Definitely roast potatoes though, and only in the middle of summer when its properly hot well into the evening would we not have those.

THE RULES!
Roast chicken, stuffing and bread sauce.
Lamb, suet pud, leek or onion sauce, mint sauce
Pork, Stuffing, Apple sauce
Beef, Yorkies, mustard
Gammon/bacon, yorkies, mustard
turkey, sausage meat, stuffing but parsley and thyme, bread sauce.
All with gravy and Roasties...you must also serve one root, one brassica, one legume, at the leastest with them all.
FACT!
(lamb can have rosemary and garlic if you are feeling a bit experimental, but this must be done with extreme caution)

What are suet pudding and bread sauce?
Is a roastie simply a peeled quartered potato cooked in with the roast? Or does it need special par boiling and duck fat in order to be a true roastie?

Just a thought. Do those of you demanding Xmas dinner style roasts actually cook?

Or are you just those people with v high expectations but don't actually cook?

Nooo I love to cook

And I do the bread sauce, sausages in bacon, stuffing, yorkies, parnsips etc as standard when I do a roast chicken

But because I bloody love them, not for any masterchef ideas of greatness

Oh and roast garlic. Its not the same without roast garlic

@catgirl fair enough (just had a bitter experience with a house mate who would go on and on abou THE RULES for roast dinners and never ever ever lifted a finger!)

But how often do you do this roast? Every Sunday?

No - more like once a month or so :)

But its worth the wait :)

My mum never cooked a roast.

I am deprived.

Come for one of mine ifancyashandy

Bring your elasticated waist trousers :) (and some wine)

Can do both of the above !

I have taught myself over the years how to cook a mean roast. Of all varieties and additions.

But nowt like someone else cooking it for you while one sups shedloads some wine!

Every sunday I cook, I love Sunday Lunch and tis the easiest meal of the week, because I do it every week, it is comfort food, and my DH finds it funny because I actually do 7 or 8 veggies every time..that doesn't include the roast pots.
On Monday I do Monday pie which is the meat basically with pastry and left over veg or another roast, just reheating the previous days food, tuesday is reheating the sunday left overs, or Tuesday pie, I will leave that to you to guess what that is :)

It must get easier the more you do it, I put it off because I think it is the most hassle of any meal I cook, takes hours and makes so much washing up. Luckily no one in our house is that bothered about having it.

I'm from Yorkshire and it's Yorkshires with every roast, even Christmas Dinner. My DH is now well-trained in the art of making Yorkshires, as are the DCs (14, 13 and 11). Would never buy ready-made. Middle DC had left-over Yorkshires for breakfast on Monday.

What's skirlie, zukie ?