To hate Sunday roast dinners.....

[Toastandstrawberryjam]

It's not Sunday big family dinners I hate. It's specifically roast dinners.

Firstly every single time we have one (or I eat one somewhere else) I'm ill afterwards. I have no idea what it is but some part of it sets off an upset stomach followed by days of cramps. I'm ok if I just eat the meat and a few veggies but frankly that's not the most exciting of dinners.

Then there's the stipulation of "roast rules", always in the evening not at lunchtime. Invariably being everybody is tired and the DC barely eat anything. Then there's the "at least 2 types of potato" rule (but preferably 3 - roast, new, mash) and "at least 5 types of veg". It's such a palaver.

Last week I cooked roast chicken with crunchy baked potatoes, ratatouille and nice bread - that to me was perfect. Low fuss, minimal clean up. But it's not classed as a proper roast here :(

Root veg bunged in the oven with olive oil & sea salt is so easy. You can cook your chicken in the same pan.
As many veg as you can be bothered to peel/chop & only one pan to wash up.

Tray bakes are the way ahead

I love spending hours faffing in the kitchen, but it's my choice to do it.
Only dd and I in our family and even I tell her if she's not happy with what I am making she can get her own, no way would I be told to do all that.
I would do it if asked nicely for an occasion meal.

I'm sure after his tremendous efforts today, your H will be more than willing to relax his "rules"

Where does he get his 3 types of potato rule from?

Today I cooked roast chicken, roast sweet potatoes, carrots, peas, leaks and gravy, door just me and DH.

DH asked if we could have bread sauce and chipolatas, I just said "No sorry, it's not Christmas lunch"

my mum always did a Sunday roast and it was great. But it certainly wasn't this palaver. Roast meat, stuffing if it was chicken, yorkies if it was beef, roast spuds and a couple of veg. Ready at 2 on the dot. My dad would bung the meat in while we were at Mass and then my mum would finish off when we got back.

Your DH sounds a bit of a twat about this, tbh. And it sounds like such a waste of food, I couldn't possibly pack all that away.

It would be a cold day in hell before DH specified what I cooked for him.

Sunday roast about once a month here. Sometimes the full works, homemade gravy and stuffing, a couple of types of potatoes and three or four fresh veg. Sometes bung a chicken in the oven with frozen veg and yorkshires.

The point is that I, as the cook, get to decide. My roast, my rules.

I am having a roast today with 1 type of tattie and caulicheese no wonder you have the squits 5 types of veg and 3 types of potato that would go straight through me

Who invented those rules? Never heard of them before... In my experience and opinion only one type of potato is acceptable. I'd never do mash AND roasties, that's barmy . Then again I'm veggie so roast dinners to us are meatless with onion gravy... Four types of veg, Yorkshire puddings, roasties or mash, sometimes stuffing but not usually and the main which is a variety of things from quorn to nut roasts with onion gravy. Easy! Washing up is the most annoying thing...

I adore a roast dinner and love making them.

Pissing about in the kitchen listening to the radio, dogs at my feet while I peel a million potatoes/carrots/sprouts, ds and DH doing stuff in the garden.

Then a lovely big dinner!

Except for today though. I have a hangover cold so we are having Chinese. Will be strange on a Sunday.

I use the Aldi frozen steam bags of veg. Carrot, green beans and cauliflower chopped into the right sizes to cook in the microwave for three mins. Yorkshire puds are easy or do frozen ones. Morrisons do 12 medium ones for a pound. Stick a chicken in a Pyrex dish with a chopped up onion, couple of non chopped garlic cloves, squeeze of lemon and some herbs. I keep fresh herbs like thyme and rosemary in the freezer. Cook on low for a couple of hours. You'll have a lovely gravy with boiling water and bisto added. Buy ready mash and there you go.

If I do cauliflower cheese I'll make double and freeze it then it's nice and easy next time.

If my DH wanted that lot, he'd have to take us all out somewhere.

I currently have a chicken and a tray of potatoes and parsnips roasting in the oven. We'll have carrots and broccoli with it. That is it, and everybody will be bloody grateful. Or else!

I love a roast, have one most weeks and i only do roast potatoes and four types of veg but i do have a lot of people to cook for!

I love a good roast but I make it since DW (a) doesn't enjoy them and (b) thinks two oven pans plus three / four saucepans is a real faff.

So our roast "rules" are simple, if I want one I make it for us!

My ex actually told ds1 that I was a neglectful mother because I didn't do Sunday roasts

He was a Sunday roast fascist too and was totally stuck in the 50s

The roast we had today was actually the first Sunday roast we've had in years and years because ex put me off them so much

I always do roast meat, roast potatoes, broccoli, carrots and peas. Plus frozen Yorkshires and packet gravy. It's quick and lovely. Three types of potatoes and six veg what a wally

You are only being unreasonable if someone else cooks this meal for you. I am not a huge fan of roast dinners either, we rarely eat them, but frankly any meal that someone else cooks is a treat.

Even a meal I don't enjoy and makes me ill? How is that a treat??

I made cauliflower cheese with our roast today - easy once I'd found the MN microwave cheese sauce method! The faff is worth it if you have enough for dinner on Monday too - then you're buying yourself an easy tea the next day.

I could eat a roast dinner now. Perfect hangover cure

The best is my mums minted lamb roast.

Has yorkshires, roasties, mash, minted lamb, parsnips and pickled onions. I don't like gravy.

Very simple but very nice. It's usually New Years day meal but if I'm lucky she will make it a few times a year.

I was hoping she was doing a chicken roast today. Gutted she was doing Shepards pie

Last week I didn't eat the potatoes at all, but did have the gravy and wasn't well after. Tonight I will be skipping the gravy and just having the meat with some brown rice. Yum!

His roast, his rules, his turn to cook. Every Sunday. If he wants you to cook on a Sunday, cook whatever the hell you want.

Did he really tell you you're a bad mother for not doing a roast his way? Tell him to fuck off and that it won't just be a roast he won't be getting from you in future.

My Irish nanna makes the best roast potatoes. Crunchy on the outside and fluffy on the inside. It's the goose fat.

I always put on weight when I visit as its a meat, potato and veg dinner every day.

My parents used to do a Sunday roast with three veg and three different types of potatoes, but that was to deflect attention from the tiny piece of roast whatever (lamb/pork/beef/chicken) which had to stretch for five of us and sometimes guests too.

Now our lads have left home and it's just me and DH. I don't eat meat now so the only time the poor soul gets a roast is when the offspring come back or we have guests.

If your DH is expecting a big roast with six veg and all the trimmings then I think he has to cook it himself every week. Waste of a precious family day if you ask me.