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?

you need to look up some Jamie Oliver you tubes and see how easy a good roast is and how to do one that is a work of art! we are having roast pork belly tomorrow night and i cant wait!!!!! yummmy
btw jamies get ahead gravy is awesome, you can make it and keep it in the freezer and bring it out any night of the week!

You sound a happy man disgrace. Loved your post

OP! I am sorry to hear you had to suffer your DM's cooking and have come to this INCORRECT and most unreasonable conclusion as a result. Get thee round to mine in 45 mins and you will se how heavenly Sunday roasts can be xx

Disgrace - You're a true poet!

Hunks of meat don't do anything for me either.

It's the food of the gods when done properly

I love roast dinners but only ones either I have cooked or my DH has cooked. We usually have one every week but not always on a Sunday.

We are vegetarian so will have something like a nut roast, large stuffed mushrooms, mushroom wellington, goats cheese tarts with crispy roast potatoes (home made), Yorkshire pudding (home made), roast parsnips along with at least 3 steamed veg. No gravy because neither of us really like gravy and it makes the potatoes and Yorkshires go soggy.

I have had some pretty horrible roast dinners. My MIL cooked really awful ones with all the veg overcooked and mushy and frozen potatoes and Yorkshires. Also never had a decent roast in a restaurant

Beef roast dinner would be my final meal, definately. With cauliflower cheese.

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How many are you catering for with that menu?

We are veggie and still have a roast dinner every Sunday barring - well pretty much the flu and war. And I make my own gravy as well. It is bloody lovely and our favourite way to end the weekend off.

I am just about to start cooking it now as it happens, takes an hour tops for a veggie roast, from putting the oven on, to serving up.

Even when we were veggie we used to love a roast dinner. Yorkies, stuffing, roast potatoes, maybe creamy mash, cauli, broccoli and leek cheese, buttered carrots, sprouts if it's the right time of year, or green beans, peas etc and fabulous home made veggie gravy. We generally didn't even bother with a nut roast or whatever.

I am going to be inspired by you all and try cooking my own roast beef in a couple of weekends - recovering from horrendous gastroenteritis and can't eat anything non-bland yet (could probably eat your DM's roast though!). I'm good at chicken but rarely get any other kind of roast and I don't think I've ever done beef. Nom nom!

My Mum used a pressure cooker for every meal but especially for roast dinners, so veg was all one giant beige lump of tasteless slop. Her roast beef was cooked so long it tasted like a slipper and even her yorkshires were shop-bought. As a teen I thought I was being punished for past-life-sins whenever she declared we were having a roast.

However. I've since learned to cook and can freely attest to the fact that a proper - and I mean proper - roast dinner is incredible. If I ask the DCs what they'd like for supper any time they always request roast beef, and DH believes if a meal doesn't contain meat it's not a meal. So YAB a little U. But understandably U, because a bad roast dinner is soul destroying.

Oh, I'm currently craving a good roast. We turn the Aga off from May to Sep and I refuse to cook one in our piddling little table-top oven. I'm on countdown to the end of the month.

Roast pork with shed-loads of salt n pepper crackling
Brambley Apple sauce
Roast potatoes
Honey roast parsnips and carrots
Green beans
Purple sprouting
Carrot and Swede Mash
and lashings of meaty-appley-oniony gravy

God. I might not make it till the end of the month...

Our roast in anything but bland.. maybe due to half of it being stuffing

I don't mind a really well cooked roast dinner, BUT if there was a choice of that or something else, 9 times out of 10 I would choose the other option.
I include a traditional christmas dinner in this. I cannot see the appeal of turkey at all.

We're another family ruled by the Aga! But dp can produce a fabulous roast dinner using a kettle barbecue and a microwave if we beg him enough. Roast lamb tonight, marinaded in yoghurt and spices, roast potatoes and loads of vegetables.

I refuse to cook one in our piddling little table-top oven.

Our oven broke and we only had a remoska oven for 2 years; I still used to cook a roast in it. Bloody lovely it was too. All the veg in with the roast spuds, and a veggie thing whatever we were having, just lovely.

My Sunday roasts are the total opposite of bland.

I do roast potatoes with garlic and rosemary, roasted peppers and onions.

Favourite meat which we have twice a year because it's so bloody expensive is lamb. With mint sauce.

Honey roast parsnips, mashed swede with butter, peas, carrots...And I always make gravy from scratch and it is heaven. I want a roast now!

I love a roast dinner, yours might be rubbish op but mine is delicious. 😋 I don't cook them on Sunday though, we would usually have them about twice during the week, in our house weekends are for eating crap and ordering takeaways.

OP you need to try a decent dinner. I am bout to tuck into this.

Detest roasts. Even superbly cooked roasts 😊

I love roasts, you can tailor them to suit you.

I never much liked my mum's veg (she did fab meat and toast potatoes), but I've learnt to do my own the way I like them.

The meat shouldn't be tasteless if you season it well. Don't overcook chicken, and I find lamb best slow cooked. Pork with crispy crackling.

You can have roasted parsnips, carrots and butternut squash, steamed greens but don't overcook, you can have tangy red cabbage, peas, whatever you want, stuffing balls, thicken gravy with cornflour, gravy is lovely cooked on the hob in the meat dish. Homemade Yorkshire puds.

When I first started doing my own roasts they were a disaster, but practice makes perfect.

A massive lump of tasteless meat and boiled vegetables, smothered in gravy.

If it tastes like that, it's down to the cook not the fact that it's a roast.

I never got the big deal about it until I had my SIL's which is really good. My MIL's is bland as fuck. Think over boiled veg, barely roasted potatoes and dry chicken - where as SIL bastes hers regularly and seasons well, so it comes out moist, then adds some juice to the ready made gravy so it accompanies the chicken well.

TBH it's still not my favourite meal but if the person cooking it knows what they're doing it's fine.