Sunday Roasts, are they still a thing?

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It was such a staple of my 70's/80's youth and not being a parent I wondered what, if anything, it has morphed into.

As a child growing up in the 80's. Yes we did. Rarely have roast. Sometimes buy a steak pie! Only at xmas.

I suspect those making the bland comments have just had bad roast dinners.

This Sunday we had pork tenderloin with a garlic ginger and chilli crust. There was nothing bland about it.

I love a roast, just not in a Sunday. Sundays are for eating out and someone else can cook.

We have a roast dinner every week except when it is really hot but not always on a Sunday. Can be any night of the week.

We are both vegetarian but will make things like nut roast, goats cheese and caramelised onion tarts, cauliflower souffles.

We are having a roast tonight. Mushroom Wellington with roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, carrots, cauliflower, runner beans, peas, roast parsnips, mashed parsnip and brussel sprouts.

I don't understand why people say it's such a faff or takes so long. We make our own roasties and Yorkshires (really don't like frozen of either) but it really doesn't take that much preparation and then just goes in the oven. Not like meals that take lots of chopping and continuous stirring

Big thing in our family - esp with teens and young adults.

Perfect way of spending quality family time and roasts are actually easy to do - chuck joint and roasties in oven and then the last 15 mins you cook the veg, make gravy and carve the meat etc.

I think it was the must do it every Sunday nature of how it was when I was growing up that put me off. My parents do a great roast but it was with a huge sigh of relief that we stopped doing it every week when I was in my teens.

We eat something on Sunday, we almost always eat together and we always cook - sometimes it's roast meat with a couple of veg and some potatoes and gravy, it's nice...comforting and very easy, I don't feel the need to add another 3 veg, stuffing and yorkshire puddings. I would add apple sauce for pork, maybe some rosemary on the potatoes for beef or lamb, chicken is best kept simple.

But it could just as easily be something a little bit less traditional like a curry or a middle eastern mezze or a slow cooked Chinese stew and no one would express surprise or horror!

I don't understand why people say it's such a faff or takes so long. I think when you figure out the timing - the food that can sit around without harm and the food that likes to be eaten immediately and you work to that. Also I think people over complicate it - you really don't need 5 veg, 3 different types of potatoes, 3 sauces, yorkshires and stuffing.

Every Sunday
And in winter, midweek too esp if I'm lacking inspiration
DD had leftover roast in a food flask for school yesterday and really enjoyed it - chicken, gravy, peas and cut up roast potatoes and Yorkshire puddings

And I don't understand the fuss over homemade gravy, surely it's just meat juices a bit of water to loosen the bits and thickened with some cornflour. How is that hard?

I guess it used to be that the joint of meat would make up many of the meals for the following week. We just don’t need to eat that way any more.

We had one every week when I was a child - my mum hated doing it. My dad would get home from work at 1pm and it would need to be ready, with a pudding. Not surprising she resented it.

Ds1’s favourite meal 💕💕

Roast chicken and potatoes
Yorkshire pudding
Cauliflower cheese
Broccoli
Carrots
Peas
Stuffing
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