Whats your perfect roast dinner?

[Moominfan]

Making one tomorrow and won't be bothering with yorkshire puddings, don't care for them at all. I think they're the weakest part of the meal. My other half is aghast at this. wondering what everyone else's perfect Sunday dinner includes

My DH insists on onion rings!

Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, brocolli, raw carrots, Marmite roasties, parsnips and horseradish sauce or mustard with loads of gravy. Pigs in blankets on special occasions.

Does anyone else find that if you go out for a roast there's never enough gravy and you have to ask for extra?

I disagree aunt bessies. They aren't bad, but real yorkies are better.

I did not grow up in England but my grandmother was English. She taught us to have onion sauce with a roast, usually lamb. Anyone else? Basically a white sauce made with onions. Is glorious. I always do either that or cauliflower cheese with roast for the creaminess. Proper roasties and mixed veg. I like to do peas a la Jamie Oliver with chicken stock and bacon too. Or roasted carrots or butternut, especially with beef.

A medium forerib of beef, Yorkshire puddings made properly, potatoes roasted in duck or goose fat and butter, cauliflower cheese, roasted carrots, shallots and parsnips, celeriac or swede purée, homegrown runner beans. Thick gravy. Horseradish sauce.
Apple pie made with puff pastry served with ice cream and/or custard.

We can’t move afterwards but definitely worth the effort.

Controversial here but Yorkshire puddings go with beef only. And stuffing with pork (porchetta) or chicken.

Best roast is pork shoulder (the end jammy bits), brussel top, roast spuds, peas, swede and carrot mash and one other veg, crackling and gallons of gravy.

Roast chicken, baked potato with a proper crispy skin, baked onion, roasted parsnips, boiled carrots, steamed broccoli and lots of gravy

Meat (for the carnivores), veggie sausages for me, cauliflower cheese, roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, Yorkshire puddings, and three other veg - carrots, peas, green beans, broccoli, baby corn. And gravy of course.

A roast without Yorkshires isn’t a roast!

Oh and caramalised shallots if I can be arsed.

It’s not controversial to suggest Yorkshire puddings only accompany beef. It’s fact.
Roast pork should have stuffed apple cups and plenty of crackling unless it’s a porchetta. Pork needs red cabbage to hit the right notes.

oooh!

I love a lemon and herb roasted chicken with extra crispy roast potatoes, Honey Roasted Carrots and LOTS of stuffing!! That's my fave!

Quite often you don’t get very good crackling with pork but when you do......oh boy! I absolutely love roast pork, crackling & proper chunky cider applesauce. Oh & tender roast lamb with mint sauce or red currant jelly. Beef with horseradish. Turkey crown with cranberry sauce. Roast duck - not sure what you serve with that but I love it!

Roast beef, Yorkshires, roast potatoes, cauliflower cheese, creamed spinach, loads of gravy and horseradish sauce.

Don't like Yorkshire pudding

Ooh I love a roast dinner! My dream version would consist of either beef, lamb or chicken; stuffing, pigs in blankets, Yorkshire Pudding, roast AND mashed potatoes, cauliflower cheese, green beans, carrot & swede mash, leek and cabbage. And about half a pint of gravy! Yum. Oh I think I have to make one tomorrow now!!

Man alive, I had the BIGGEST roast dinner at a pub last Sunday. Roast pork, crackling, roast and mashed potatoes, carrots, parsnips, swede mash, peas, sweetcorn, leeks, braised red cabbage, beetroot, Yorkshire puddings the size of a babies head, stuffing, pigs in blankets, cauliflower cheese, broccoli, stuffing, apple sauce, and an ocean of gravy.

Thank fuck DS is a teenager now, because I had to give up halfway through and pass the plate over to him to finish it for me. I don't think I've eaten since.

@silverontoast

All the supermarkets sell gluten-free yorkies! Otherwise you could just make them with gluten-free flour?

YANBU, but we are in a minority. I don't really see the point of Yorkshire puddings. I will make them for a group though as I find them satisfying to make.
I like a roast chicken, good crunchy golden roast potatoes, interesting veg (no boiled carrots and frozen garden peas) and a jus-like gravy, just a little.
I'm a monster.

My perfect roast dinner is one that someone else has cooked!

Pistachio and cashew wellington
roast potatoes, loads of Yorkshire puddings
small portion of cauliflower cheese
mashed and buttered carrots then baked
honeyed roast parsnips

roasted sprouts with chesnuts
lots of gravy
mash potato

I like to serve my own portion up so that I can have loads of Yorkshires, a small slice of Wellington and lots of the veg.

I’m not a fan of Yorkies either, DH and DD know that if they want them then they are in the freezer, they can pop em in the oven for the last few minutes!

My perfect roast is beef, with greens, carrots and cauli or brocolli. Loads of roast spuds, gravy made with the beef juices and a nice glass of wine.

It’s exactly what we’re hving for dinner tomorrow.

My dads roast includes: joint of meat, roast potato's, roast carrots, roast parsnips, stuffing, Yorkshire pud, broccoli, cauliflower, green beans/runner beans depending on the season all served with lashings of gravy.

Don’t like roast dinners, I cook them for DS & DH occasionally but I have something different.

If MIL invites us for Sunday lunch I take something else to eat. She’s not offended, I never ate my DM’s roasts either.

No Yorkshire puddings here as I'm gluten free, but there have to be crispy roast potatoes and parsnips!

Roast is my favourite food. Just wish I had discovered it earlier, was 20 when I moved to UK...

Best one would be roast chicken cooked with herb, lemon and garlic butter under the skin, small super crispy roast potatos, roast sweet potatos and parsnips, cauliflower cheese, carrots, green beans and red cabbage. All swimming in a homemade gravy. With a massive dollop of cranberry sauce. I also wouldnt turn down a nice cheesy mash and yorkshire puddings but not necessary really.

I do like all meats but the order of preferance is:
Chicken
Gammon
Pork belly
Other pork roasts
Beef
Turkey
Lamb

Will be having a roast tomorrow but it wont be like I described as I am doing SW

Tomorrow I’m doing roast pork with apple sauce, sage and onion yorkies (add sweated onion and chopped sage to the mixture), carrots par cooked in stock then finished in butter and honey, fried cabbage and cider gravy made with the stock the carrots cooked in. Crackling, of course.

Chicken, pheasant or turkey must be roasted with a mix of butter, thyme and grated lemon rind under the skin and the remaining lemon halved and placed in the cavity. Ideally served with apricot, celery and walnut stuffing.

All birds must be served with proper bread sauce and damson jelly .

All gravy to be made by reducing stock with meat juices plus appropriate sherry/port/wine/cider plus red currant or damson jelly, no flour (any leftovers are freezed then used as a base for future gravy ).

Roasties and roast parsnips made with duck or goose fat.

Can I stress that the meat needs to be up to room temperature before cooking, I always take mine out early am, cook at 6pm, then rest for at least 30 mins.