To not enjoy a 'Sunday Roast'?

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Is it just me who doesn't get the love for it? It's probably the most boring and bland meal there is. A massive lump of tasteless meat and boiled vegetables, smothered in gravy.

My DF insists he has to have one every single Sunday, but quite honestly I'd rather have a curry, or pizza, or slag Bol, or anything other than a roast fucking dinner.

Why are we so obsessed with having a roast dinner on Sunday in this country?

Can I just say I'm really pissed off because I decided that today we would have a healthy melon / bacon / balsamic salad, along with cold tuna and past salad and sweetcorn. It's nearly ready.

IT'S NOT DOING IT FOR ME RIGHT NOW

I've cooked 'around the world' this week:

Mon: Takeaway - Fish n Chips
Tue: Chilli con Carne
Wed: Turkish Kebabs
Thu: Chicken Fajitas
Fri: Lasagne
Sat: Jambalaya
and tonight I've got a Yuk Sung on the go.

But bloody hell, all I want is a roast now!

I'm actually fed up of thinking of different foods to cook - a roast is so bloody easy

Roast lamb flavoured with a shit ton of rosemary and garlic, potatoes roasted with the meat so all juicy, mash with loads of milk and butter, honey roasted carrots, just steamed cabbage so still crunchy, sweetcorn and yorkies. And apple sauce. With a very ugly looking but thick and rich and delicious beefy gravy.

Sweetcorn and apple sauce are a bit out there I know, but that's the beauty of a roast. Chuck on anything you love

Oh and cauliflower cheese of course!

I love a roast! Though today's wasn't great. The meat was so tough it was inedible I'm sure it had nothing to do with Dh insisting on cooking.

Lamb marinaded in yougurt and spices roasting in the barbecue.

Very boring and unworldly.

I do find food snobs tedious.

Oh to blazes - it takes me 2 hours to cook a roast dinner on average. I have got it down to a fine art, but once everything is prepared it's just a matter of timings. And washing up? Well, I've cooked it, so my oh does the washing up while I retire to a comfortable chair.

I think you must be having bad ones! I love a roast dinner but hate bland food and it never tastes bland when we make it.

Well I made a roast today and it went down like a sack of rocks. I enjoyed it at least the baby chewed on a Yorkshire pudding, the toddler dicked about and DH muttered about me using seasonings and pushed it aside. Roast pork, potatoes, honey glazed parsnips, buttery broccoli (thanks Jamie Oliver for that idea) and crappy frozen Yorkshire puddings I won't get again.
It wasn't until Mumsnet that I had heard of putting boiled potatoes on a roast a crying shame, as my mum would say.

Today's roast came with a near-disaster of epic proportions:

Halfway through my very carefully calculated roasties time, as I was gleefully rubbing my belly and thinking of the happy fact that dinner was almost ready, I suddenly thought to myself, 'I don't actually remember putting the potatoes in...'

I'd only been preheating the oil for said potatoes for the past half hour or so whilst the potatoes were sat waiting to go in!

Ugh. The chicken is done and ready and has been resting for almost half an hour now. The lovely crispy skin will be ruined.

But we will persevere and make the best of it.

Dinner!! Not the best photo as I was hungry and wanted to eat.

Chicken with roast potatoes, sliced green beans with garlic butter, carrots with thyme, honey and lemon, and caramelised onions.

Looks like you rescued it Holger! Yum

Oh I do hate the food snobbery on here sometimes.

We eat spiced food i.e. Indian/N African at least three or four times a week, it's our staple. So bugger off if I fancy a really delicious, well cooked roast on a Sunday.

Taking notes! I have never had a roast in a carvery or restaurant that was a patch on my mum's so I don't tend to order them. The last one I had in a posh restaurant had cooked all the veg in cream and cheese including dauphinoise potatoes which are lovely in isolation but there wasn't a thing on the plate that wasn't creamy except the beef and yorkies and it all got a bit too cloying - and that place is famous for its roasts. I think it's DIY or go round to your mum's or nothing!

@HolgerDanske
Literally want to stuff that in my face
Looks fab!!!
Chicken 🍗 is my fave

I like a roast dinner, especially lamb or beef.

I find the hardest thing about making one is the timing to make sure everything is ready at the same time and not over or under cooked.

I swam the English Channel as part of a relay team yesterday. It took us 16 hours. I got home at 3am this morning, tired hungry and stiff. DH cooked roast chicken with all the trimmings tonight it was comparable to the toast and tea I had after giving birth. YABU.

My exdp was always a bit
About roasts every Sunday but I am a Sunday roast militant!!! He sucked it up

They bring people together and roast potatoes are the gift of the gods

Being single is shit.

Oh I do hate the food snobbery on here sometimes

Me too PantPlot I love a Sunday roast. I can usually only do chicken because there are just two of us - it's fantastic. But I love lamb, pork or even rib of beef if there are more people

I love pork belly and have mastered crackling. I'm going to eat it on Sunday

Re food snobbery... I do a roast about once a month (see above...I cook them and then dont want to eat them!) so I do yorkshires whenever we have it, regardless of the meat. Usually we have chicken and one time ma and pa popped round when I was cooking and I mentioned the Yorkshires and she said "Oh are I thought you were having chicken?". I said that yes we were and she tried (and failed!) to not look disapproving. As they were going Dad said "I would have yorkies wih everything if only your mum would let me" :o

I should add to the above that he does all the cooking.....

for leeks with a roast, clean an slice em, stick in a baking dish with some Madeira, sherry or brandy and some fennel seeds ( whatever u have) cover in tin foil and cook. When its done stir in some heavy cream. to die for. I LOVE leeks

Oooh that sounds good on the leeks, I now how to add them to pasta dishes or leek and potato soup or whatever but never really cook them on their own, that's going on in my next roast!

If I lived on my own, I honestly think I'd cook a small joint and then have leftovers every day for the following week!

As for timing of roasts, I suppose I've been doing them for decades so there's no thinking about it, I'm just wired in to get the timings right. We often have friends round for dinner, would love to do a roast then but it's a bit naff so I have done a variation and ponce up the jus gravy so it's just a posh roast really!

A good roast dinner is the best thing in the whole world. You must not of had a decent one.

Both mother and MIL boiled veg to death so they were just well, mush really, roasted meat for hours and hours, whats with putting the meat in first thing in the morning for serving around 3pm, made horrible gravy, ugh!

Ive been dreaming about them for weeks (not in the UK) and shall very soon be cooking a great tasting roast back in the UK, with all the trimmings, lashings of gravy and creamed horseradish, oh god I can taste it........