to hate this obsession with Sunday Lunch.

[fckUsundaylunch]

Yes I get that years ago everybody worked long hours and Sunday was the only time people could gather together to eat.
But times have changed.

If I get up on a Sunday and it's a really nice day, rather than spend all morning cooking, we will go out for the day.
We'll have the Sunday lunch on another day during the week..
I don't want my whole day to revolve around a meal.

My DM is always horrified ^But You have to have Sunday Lunch!''
'How can you not have Sunday Lunch?
Me Why?
DM ''Because it's Sunday!''
I think she would have a hear attack if I told her that sometimes we live really dangerously and go a whole month without seeing a roast potato

Before the food police have a go, I cook really healthy meals, and we sit down to eat as a family on a regular basis,
just not always on a Sunday.

Anybody else have older parents who think this way?

and eating a dead corpse,

No judgement there then.

Indeed

Oooooooooooooooh!

I have read back my posts... I sound really up myself, don't I? In real life it was even worse - I also stewed some rhubarb in orange juice, used up some leftover sour cream in a most Nigel Slater manner, I added umpty ump other non leftovers and made 11 blueberry muffins, took 4 next door to 'pay' for the rhubarb, and strained off the stock pot and froze the chicken stock in the ice cube tray.

Sorry [shame]

But cooking is something I have always enjoyed.

Isn't a corpse always dead?

OurBlanche - yes we always cook from scratch - the poor Sunday lunches I've had have been my Mums (just a very traditional, old -fashioned bland style of cooking - a "put the sprouts on to start on Xmas Eve" type of cook ) and ones I've eaten out.

DP is a great cook but I'm still not inspired by his Sunday lunches.

pearlylum - I do eat some traditional British foods - (veggie) sausage and mash, cauliflower cheese, veggie "chicken" leek and mushroom pie (with either pastry or mashed potato top) and that type of thing. Just seem to prefer other foods TBH.

As opposed to those great ancient feasts where everyone sat down over a massive lentil bake..

corpse

noun
1.
a dead body, especially of a human being rather than an animal.

"Dead corpse"
Oh ffs

My father would eat a roast every day. I hate Sunday roast and would only have one once every few months. Even longer.

Oh blimey a human corpse on the dinner table? no, I have never seen that.

pearlylum It is a good day. We often reserve Sunday for slow domestic stuff. He works away and it is nice just to potter round not quite together.

DH often cooks. We can get a bit heated about whose turn it is Today I won and he is shoving some washing through the machine and sorting out of the tumble dryer instead. I could have been weeding teh garden while he cooked, but it rained

Nancy I'll be thinking of you as we tuck into our dead pig

I do like a Sunday roast and have one in the pm so able to go off and do whatever we want during the day. Really puzzled though by all these comments about spending all day slaving over a stove. How could putting some meat and potatoes in the oven and preparing some veg take that long. It's hardly a 10 course banquet!

Mexican is our go to weekend spicy meal, it takes longer chopping the salsa stuff than anything else

Agree. Love Mexican but really time consuming. Way longer than a roast.

Sunday lunch is quite important to me. It was a constant in my childhood, and as we enjoyed each other's company, we had fabulous and fun Sunday lunches after my brothers and I had left - right up until we were all in our 30s. It was my getting married that stopped it as dh found every excuse under the sun not to do it but didn't like me going without him

I had hoped that dd would enjoy them as I had, but it seems we are a bit of a miserable bunch, and the sparkling flow of conversation doesn't happen. It sounds like it works better at her bf's parents' Sunday lunch, though, so I hope she'll experience it one way or another.

Hah I love the fact that she can refer to our meet as a dead corpse but has no sympathy for the veggies...

I mean you ate poor Margaret and Raymond..and their family

Just to clarify - although I don't like Sunday lunches/dinners we still do all sit down together around the dining table for a proper meal on Sundays (and , in fact, every day).

Always have done.

It's just the choice of food for "traditional" Sundays that I don't like.

We would only have a roast lunch if it was winter, and friends were coming. Otherwise we eat in the evening, and enjoy a day out, or busy doing things, or whatever.

Sometimes in summer we will cook a whole chicken or fish in the barbecue, but again it would be in the evening. None of my family do big occasions at lunchtime. We have always had Christmas dinner in the evening.

ourblanche- I am with you,.

I am a from scratch cook too, I plan ahead and think about the food I will prepare. I made a roast chicken on Friday, OH has stripped the bones, reserved the meat, and mad a superb stock from the bones so intense and concentrated that it is sitting in the fridge as a slab of solid jelly.
I will make a soup tomorrow with the stock and lots of veg for lunch, the meat has been frozen, and will make a meal through the week. Tomorrow will be a beef and chilli stir fry with the left over roast from today.
I am constantly thinking ahead, using up leftovers, or seasonal produce that is cheap in stores,

My usual lunch on a Sunday is something like soup and bread; a sandwich; salad etc.

We used to do a roast lunch on Sundays when DS lived nearby, as it incentivised him to pop round and see us! But just for the two of us, we don't bother.

It's fun, isn't it?

I almost have enough squishy tomatoes, half portions of passata in the freezer to make a really good batch of tomato soup. Then I will bully DH into making an unnecessarily complicated loaf of bread ) with sauteed onions and goats cheese. That will be lunch for next Saturday, the bread will also make lunch salad and olives on Monday for me.

We lived a very rural house for 10 years and it motivated us into being seasonal and frugal. We did garden gate swaps, you never knew what you'd end up with. The habit has stuck and we too plan lots of meals, often around leftovers as DH seems to prefer them

Exactly ourblanche- in face I deliberately buy bigger chickens/bits of road meat so I can have access to leftovers.
Roast meat has a special flavour, I often throw in a couple of unpeeled onions into the oven at the same time as they add such a lovely sweet caramel flavour to anything I am cooking the next day.

I like slow cooked roasts so I can bung a chicken in the oven at 9.30 and leave it until 3ish. In the meantime, we can do other stuff, and prepping of spuds and veg is done in small stages when other things are not happening, and then putting spuds in (if roasting) takes a few mins, same for cooking veg.

DH likes to get the 'family silver' out for Sundays, and you have to serve something fairly serious in it!

As a child I used to eat like a sparrow, until it came to a roast dinner. Not too coincidently it's still the one and only meal that's (kind of) cooked well in my parents' house. It's probably a good thing it occurred weekly - often at my paternal grandparents' house (though I ate ever meal there) or my maternal grandparents' house (didn't eat it quite as readily there).

I like to say I was a child foodie

I still love a roast still - doesn't need to occur on a Sunday. I would say I'm obsessed with it for that reason.

Id make a roast dinner frequently enough; on days when I know there will be enough time to cook the meat. Never ever felt like I'm slaving away over it - thankfully!!

I love a Sunday Dinner but can't bring myself to have one when it's a scorching hot day. It's a bbq or a Takeaway.

I deliberately buy bigger chickens/bits of road meat

Pearlylum, which country do you live in?
Is 'road meat' the same as roadkill? As in animals that have been accidentally run over whilst crossing the road? (as in the world of Honey Boo Boo)