To Probably Not Cook Roast Lamb On Easter Sunday?

[tigercub50]

I have the same thing each year - all the Easter ads come on the tv & I start to feel pressured to shop for a lamb joint, invite half the neighbourhood & decorate the house with bunting & fluffy chicks! But hopefully if the sun shines, I will be out with my family & not wanting to be bothered with cooking.

Really? sounds lovely but hard work.
Just cook what you want!

It's just another Sunday to me. I probably won't even be cooking a roast. ..

YABU because it's so hard to get/expensive where I am that I miss lamb terribly. So you should have one for me!

It doesn’t even occur to me what to cook Easter Sunday. I don’t like lamb for a start.

I don't think we've ever had roast lamb at easter

Do you watch Easter tv? What is this pressure?

Nah, we're having Beef Wellington (1st homemade attempt - wish me luck!). And on Saturday!

We're not doing the Easter egg hunt until DD1 is back from CCF camp so that won't be till the Friday following Easter.

Maverick, that's us!

I had been dreaming of roast lamb and googling recipes etc.
Then I remembered that I have no kitchen as it’s being renovated, so unless you can boil a leg of lamb in the kettle I ain’t cooking it
So YABU

Yanbu. It wouldn't occur to me to do this.

Ah, we can't and don't eat lamb at lambing time, ever, so that solves that problem here

I like lamb... I never cook a "Sunday roast" on principle, because my mother was very theatrically martyred to the Sunday roast/ morning church service combo which she became inordinately stressed and ranty about every Sunday but cried when I suggested age 12 that we just not do either and nobody would mind ...

Pan fried lamb is nice, and quick. We have it with Spätzle (because we live in Germany where it's sold fresh in Aldi and a very mundane everyday version of pasta, not because we're fancy).

Gatehouse- if you look on YouTube there is an amazing “Cook along with Gordon Ramsay Beef Wellington” video that is hilarious and delicious. Dp did it at Christmas- I haven’t laughed so much or eaten so well in ages!

Can't stand lamb so definitely no roast lamb for me! We're having a big cold meat lunch with extended family on Easter Saturday then I can go to church on Easter Sunday without any cooking faff and have a lovely relaxed day (not eating chocolate 😞).

Is it the smell fourpaws? Can't say I fancy lamb much at lambing time either and it's 100% because lamb poo smells like roast lamb.

Love it the rest of the time though.

I don't get the lamb at Easter thing. If lambs are just being born, they cannot be ready to eat surely?

No lamb here! We will have a roast though, i don't cook them often so it is nice to have one at Easter.

They're last year's lambs stone - a sheep up to a year old is classed as lamb when sold as meat. Obviously they're butchered at 11.5 months otherwise it wouldn't be financially viable as each lamb would be barely any meat.

BertrandRussell I think that's the one I'm following from the BBC Good Food site. It seems relatively simple...but then, arguably, so am I!

It's just another Sunday to us. If I do do a dinner then it's usually a free range chicken.

Bah rah lamb. With yorkies, roasties, veg, gravy with a load of port in it. Yum.

That’s what I’m cooking Easter Sunday.

Our local butcher has the best lamb ever.

Did you miss "lighthearted" from your title?

I don't know anyone who feels compelled to make Easter food, do what ever makes you happy, the world will keep on turning

Nooo, who can eat a lamb, especially at this time of year when you can see them in fields everywhere?!

(Lighthearted, I'm not even a vegetarian)

I'm not cooking lamb, I did that for Mother's Day.
I was going to do an Asian pork dish but I've gone off that idea so I think it'll be fish, probably salmon, unless I go all out and treat us to monkfish.

Easter is an important religious feast for us so we will be eating and drinking and making merry! I think I’m going to veer from the top traditional and do salmon for a main, and some kind of veggie wellington.

Lamb is only traditional for a Christian Easter celebration. Partly because Jesus was the sacrificial lamb for the world, and partly because He would have eaten lamb at the last supper, as a Passover meal.
If you’re not Christian, why are you even celebrating Easter, let alone fretting about whether to serve appropriate food?
Why not just go for the atheist commercial Spring chocolate fest, and just eat any old meal plus a ton of chocolate eggs?!
I serve lamb after the Easter Sunday church service, and my family, who are a mix of Buddhists, atheists and agnostics are happy to attend church with me (where they are welcomed by our inclusive ministers, who are good friends), and then share the celebration meal, including the lamb!