To expect a roast on Easter Sunday (MIL moan)

[CinnamonPlums]

It's 5pm. We haven't eaten Easter lunch yet. I have three Dds to amuse and it's getting pretty frantic.

So far we've had a cheese sandwich.

MIL just announced she's getting a Stew our of the freezer for dinner.

WTAF has she been doing in the kitchen for the last 2 hours? I could have done the roast if she thought it was too much!

I know IABU. Should be grateful for her hosting but I just wish she had said it was all too much before and I could have hosted!

Thank God we've all got chocolate to hold body and soul together.

I only expect a certain meal if I am the one cooking it. If someone else is hosting I'm grateful for what I am given.

We had a 'Christmas Dinner' today because DH was away at Christmas. I did think DS1(19) would be off work today but he wasn't so we had it later than originally planned.

There's a thread called what's for dinner at yours today? in Chat. Loads and loads of lovely roasts and especially roast lamb on the menu

Growing up we always had lamb on Easter Sunday, so did rest the of the family so I thought it was traditional but it could have been because we live in a rural area and it's lambing season at this time of year so it fits in with local produce.
I guess that's all changed now with things available year round and Sunday roasts/family dinners being not as popular??

p.s. not hurt squoosh - DH is a chef so I know tonights dinner will be far superior . Sometimes feel a bit sad for him and DS though who are awesome, so their loss!

I'm another one that had no idea that Easter needed a big slap up roast al-a-Christmas. It's always been a complete non-event in our house. It's a bank holiday with extra chocolate for the kids and a BBQ if the weather holds up enough.

I had an egg mayo sandwich and some pringles

Is the big sit down roast dinner mostly a Christian family thing?

I was in my 20s before I realised people did 'special' for Easter.

I'm also Scottish,AllMimsy,and don't have a special Easter meal either. I don't anyone,in Scotland,who does either. I'm sure plenty of Scots do,but I don't personally know of anyone who has a special meal planned today.

The barbecues will all be out though. Judging by the contents of people's trollies in Sainsbury's,but I think that's related to the sun,and not Easter

Wow, I don't know anyone who doesn't have a celebratory style meal on Easter Sunday

I don't know anyone who does.

I do know it's common in England though. I'm not sure about Wales,or Northern Ireland.

Well my lot were told they'd have a roast at about 4.30. It's now a roast at about 7pm because I started on the inside windows and moved onto the paintwork. . They are a bit moany but DH is in the garden having a cigar and DD is working her way through a Lindt Bunny's ears.

Maybe Scottish people just don't talk about it? Better things to talk about perhaps?

www.history.com/news/hungry-history/easter-foods-from-lamb-to-eggs

The tradition of eating lamb on Easter has its roots in early Passover observances before the birth of Christianity. According to the biblical Exodus story, the people of Egypt suffered a series of terrible plagues, including the death of all firstborn sons. Jews painted their doorposts with sacrificed lamb’s blood so that God would “pass over” their homes while carrying out the punishment. Accustomed to eating roast lamb on Passover, Jews who converted to Christianity continued the tradition at Easter. Additionally, Christians refer to Jesus as the “Lamb of God,” so it makes sense that the food shows up at the Easter table. On a less symbolic note, lamb would have been one of the first fresh meats available after a long winter with no livestock to slaughter.

I'd planned quiche (dh's favourite, not mine) but dd decided to come for dinner so had to go get a beef joint as she hates quiche.... So quiche was starters :)

We had chicken tikka! Hope you were kind about the stew op, she's obviously either messed something up or gotten her wires crossed somewhere! Invite them all to yours next year of course.

I was considering making a rabbit pie as a bit of a 'joke',but it's too warm to spend all day in the kitchen.

Plus I forgot to buy rabbit.

'Maybe Scottish people just don't talk about it? Better things to talk about perhaps?'

Definitely not that! I remember when I moved to Scotland being bamboozled by people always asking me what I was having for dinner that night.

Well, it doesn't have to be a roast, but a stew out of the freezer for the entire extended family? It must be in a mahooosive Tupperware

The Easter Sunday thing is a distraction though.

The op and her family, BIL and family plus SIL and family were all invited for Easter. Op drove 5 hours to get there and has only been offered a sandwich all day.
It's not great really, is it.
I'd be poked off and I am not a brat. I just have a stomach and nutritional needs.

Wow, I'm another that never realised Easter Sunday was akin to Christmas Day Pleased though as a roast is very overrated and doesn't go down well with my lot. Now lasagne, chilli, fajitas are our kind of Sunday dinners!

So it's just a usual Sunday in this house - OH gone off to work and the kids have had homemade soup and bread for tea and I'll be having salmon nibbles, cheese, crackers, etc. when they've gone to bed

So people don't all have roast lamb/goose then?

No. But then we are Scottish. I don't think we do the Sunday roast thing as much here.

My kids are having pasta pesto. I am having chocolate.

We never had a special family meal at Easter when I was a kid, and my family are Irish Catholic. There was Lent...then there was Easter and chocolate...that was about it.

I cook a roast most Sundays anyway, so thats why we are having one

I said on the other thread that Scotland traditionally doesn't get hung up on/make a fuss about bank holidays. It's not that long ago that Christmas wasn't a holiday in Scotland, I think it was from around 1958.