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

Roast lamb
Roast potatoes (proper crispy)
Roast parsnips
Broccoli/cauliflower cheese
Corn
Mashed Swede
Gravy
Fuck ton of Yorkshire puddings and mint sauce....

So I think you're in the wrong OP, the Yorkshire's are the best bit of any roast!

In fact for Christmas last year I roasted beef and haggis and put them IN a Yorkshire pudding 🤤

Roast pork, apple sauce, gravy, Yorkshire puddings, proper roast potatoes, carrots, parsnips, garden peas, a bit of red cabbage with apple.

Not RTFT, just the OP. I don't personally eat Yorkshire puddings (eggs and being allergic all that) but you neeeeeeed Yorkshire puds in a roast dinner otherwise! You just do.

You need:

• Meat of choice ( turkey, chicken, gammon whatevs) or a nut roast if veggie or vegan

• stuffing

• roast potatoes

• veggies - carrots/broccoli/cauliflower/leeks etc

• yorkshire puds

and gravy!

Op I'm with those saying he's lucky he doesn't ltb (or just make them himself?)

I'm veggie love almost all veg - but onion rings? mushy peas in a roast?! No. Tell me more about the marmalade carrots though...

And mash? No!

For me:

Nut or quorn roast (prefer the quorn but as I'm the only veggie in the house it means a lot of leftovers! Whereas with a nut toast I just make enough).
Roast tatties (the secret is give them a good shoogle - technical term 😉- in a colander after par boiling, roughens the surface perfectly, and sea salt flakes sprinkled over just in last 10 mins of roasting)
Yorkshire puds - home made - personally I make batter first before prepping everything else, rest is while doing everything else)
Sage and onion stuffing balls
Glazed roast carrots and parsnips
Red cabbage
Veggie gravy

Dd likes
Gammon steak topped with a fried egg.
Roast tatties
Yorkshire puds
Pigs in blankets
Sage and onion stuffing
Glazed roast carrots
Broccoli
Meat gravy.

I think she may also be actually 70 rather than 17 as she also likes it with bread & butter and a big mug of builders tea 😂

It's often said veggies are tempted back to the dark side by bacon butties, personally never liked bacon, but oh I do have fond memories of mums pork crackling! Salty, soft AND crispy used to have rabbit occasionally when younger too, wouldn't countenance it now but taste wise I enjoyed it.

BlueGlasses recipe is pretty spot on, I use veggie oil though of course and whatever fat you use must be smoking hot, as hot as you can get it, have batter ready to ladle into tin as soon as you have it out of oven, should sizzle like mad when you put batter in tin. Same batter can of course also be used for crepes/pancakes, clafoutis, toad in the hole, fruit or veg fritters...

Do other countries have a yorkie equivalent?

Yorkshire pudding are gross. What a waste of carbohydrates when you could be having more potatoes..... The best roast dinner is roast pork, crackling, lots of crispy roast potatoes, leeks, peas, cabbage, carrots, apple sauce and a lake or gravy. Followed by a plum crumble and custard in the winter ( or maybe a treacle sponge and custard, can't decide) or crumbled meringue with vanilla ice cream, lemon sorbet and lemon sauce in the summer. Yum. Now I'm hungry.

Has to include homemade cauli and broccolli cheese and yorkies in our house. Preferably with stuffing too. Waiting for it to cook right now. Yum.

Lake OF gravy, obviously!

My MIL's roast beef dinner (with Yorkies - because she's not a barbarian like the op). She makes a spectacular one. Her other roasts are top quality but her roast beef outstanding.

My mum used to make a really lovely Sunday roast- it was the only time of the week I ate well as a child. Though she seems to struggle with cooking these days so it's usually me and the DH who do the roast when we are at my parents Which is a shame, as I do like roast dinners someone else has made.

I'm not the biggest fan of them. I only have a roast dinner about 4 times a year including Christmas but I do enjoy piling my plate high with every possible vegetable. I eat meat too(though not roast beef which I dislike) but the vegetables are always the highlight. Yorkshire puddings I can take or leave. I'd rather fill up on veg.

Controversially I prefer potatoes in almost any form but roasted, unless they're new potatoes which are much nicer roasted than regular potatoes.

Even more controversially I detest gravy. I don't understand the appeal at all. It makes everything soggy and taste the same. A tiny trickle of jus is just about acceptable but gravy never.

Roast pork
Crackling
Apple sauce
Stuffing
Roast potatoes
Parsnips
Sprouts
Cauli cheese
Broccoli
Yorkies
Lashings of gravy

Roast beef, Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes and a side dish of buttered green vegetables (cabbage/asparagus/mange tout/peas with mint sauce). Plus rich gravy.

I'd also like side dishes of sage and onion stuffing and cauliflower cheese. That's if I could pick my perfect roast.

I have Yorkshire pudding when I'm having roast beef, I serve them first with gravy, before the meat and vegetable part of the meal. It's how we always had it at home when I was a child, so I do it the same way.

Roast pork is my favourite, with sage & onion stuffing, roast potatoes,
braised carrots & celery and lashings of rich port gravy.

I often have pork at Christmas as I'm not a big fan of turkey, and cold pork and pickle sandwiches are super!

blueglasses Your yorkie recipe was epic, best I’ve ever made, I was way down on the eggs.

@RamblinRosie my pleasure 😇

A good nut roast
yorkies (though proper ones, not the gf shit I have to put up with! Now eating a vegan diet due to allergies so they are just impossible)
roasted 'sweet' root vegetables
carrots
peas
sprouts
Any other veg of the go apart from broccoli. Pft.
caramelised onions
Perfect roasties
A good gravy
Mint sauce

roast beef with yorkshires (not home made - the industrial ones are best - lovely and crispy), roast potatoes, carrots and greens
or
roast pork with crackling -DH makes the best crips salty crackling, with home made apple sause, roast potatoes, carrots and red cabbage

I like all roasts, but slow roasted shoulder of lamb is my favourite. Yorkshires are a must with all roasts except lamb...with lamb I have suet pudding. Which is basically the same recipe you'd make for dumplings, but you stick it in a tin and bake it in the oven. It's lush. My nan always made it with lamb, as does my mum. I've only ever met one other person who has it.

Not worth the bother.

I can think of far nicer things to do with a leg of lamb.

Mine are my favourite roast dinners. Never had one anywhere else that comes close.

My favourite is roast lamb, roast potatoes done around the lamb with garlic and rosemary, roast parsnips and carrots, savoy cabbage, broccoli, mashed potaoes, yorkshire puddings and proper gravy done with a veg trivot under the lamb. Plus mint sauce.

I am very good at roast dinners. Which is nice. But it always makes me sad as well as if I go out for sunday lunch I am always disappointed. And I would like occasionally to do that. But begrudge paying more for food not cooked as well.

Yorkshire puddings are boring.

Roast beef in the slow cooker, makes the onion gravy with this. Yorkshire puddings are a must. Roast patatoes, Mash, carrots, cauliflower cheese, roast parsnips, stuffing, and a mixture of veg. PUUURRFFECCT!

My nan is starting to get a bit old and whacky with her roasts now and is sneaking things on. Last roast I had from her house was roast chicken with potatoes, carrots, peas, cabbage, mushy peas, mushrooms and a fried egg

Roasty fry up hybrid. It was.... interesting.

Chicken breast, broccoli, carrots, green beans, stuffing, Yorkshire pudding, home-made roast potatoes cooked in goose fat. Lovely.

I do meat/chicken, roast and mash potatoes, broccoli in a cheese sauce, red cabbage, Yorkshire puds and gravy. Yum.

My DP would love your nan NotUmbongoUnchained, he believes everything is improved with the addition of a fried egg.