To wish someone would make me Sunday dinner?

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Someone like my mum who was a lovely cook, really tasty with nice grave YUM

Dh does cook a little bit but not much, ds hates cooking and I've done most of the cooking for ever

I've got no other family and I dream of going to my mums/aunties/MIL/sisters/brothers etc for dinner, just the once..... I never have, not since mum got old about 20 years ago

I don't have the money for a carvery place either and I imagine most places have watery gravy and soggy roasties, I don't eat out that much that I know decent places to go to

I might go to IKEA later and get meatballs but it's not the same as going to your mums

Me too! I'd love to be the one wolfing it down in ten minutes after someone else has spent hours making it. Can't remember the last roast I had that I didn't do myself. I've been cooking the Christmas dinner since I was 16. I do make excellent roasties though. I'll make you one if you make me one!

That's a deal!!

Toby carvery round the same price as Ikea gravy and rosties are good.

I so know that feeling, I especially miss the gravy.

Maybe you could start priming DH and DS that you'd really like a home cooked Sunday roast for mothers day! They'll have some time to get their heads round it. Make it a fun thing for them to do.

Also look on Facebook too late for today, but you can get Sunday roast delivered but you have to order very early in the week.

Sunday lunch at a decent pub is the way forward.

As it's just the two of us, and my DP doesn't eat meat, it's never worth us doing a roast at home. I've rarely had a bad lunch at a 'foodie' pub.

Highly relatable. I’m the only one that does a proper roast here. DP doesnt do veggie food or trimmings, and the kids are a bit young to do much past pasta.

(TBF- my MIL is an excellent cook, and we’ve had plenty of lovely Sunday lunches at theirs.)

Maybe save up and once a month (or every 6 weeks) go out for a roast. You could set yourself a challenge to find yourself the best roast dinner place locally!! Try them all

I'm off to MIL today. It's not a traditional roast though. Shame. No-one particularly likes roast dinners here so I only bother for Xmas and Easter!!

I'm actually not mad keen on a traditional roast but I fancy one today, at mums with the coal fire on.

I would love it too OP. I am a good cook, enjoy doing a roast and love sitting down as a family to eat on a sunday.

I just wish somebody else would cook it. I also find pub sunday lunch disappointing, the last one I had wasn't good. For a family of 4 to go to a nice foodie place it would probably cost 10 times the cost of me doing one so seems so wasteful.

Am currently sat weighing up the energy needed to shop for and cook a roast vs how much I will enjoy it. I know I will but don't know if I can be bothered.

But will regret eating anything else on a sunday teatime.

You can't afford a carvery? Some places do quite nice ones for less than a tenner. You could save up for one maybe?

Come to mine OP. I do a full roast every Sunday. Gravy, roast potatoes, Yorkshires, the lot.

I could proper eat one of my mum's roast dinners right now.

Unfortunately we live 1.5hrs away and there's some seriously bad weather ATM, the wind is too bad to bother getting in the car and driving up.

We are a weekly roast dinner family. Thing is, it’s always me who cooks it. I enjoy it, but it would be lovely to be invited elsewhere. Just once. It bugs me at times that our extended family always readily accept an invite for Sunday dinner but never seem to reciprocate. Yes I know I shouldn’t view it that way, but I do. I reckon my Yorkshire puds must intimidate people 😆

I second Toby Carbery. They even do takeaway!

Toby carvery is rank. It's what I imagine prison must be like as well.

You must have gone to a rubbish one Eliza.

Toby carvers isn’t the same as home cooked
Least you have a husband who could cook you one lol I have 4 boys fave dinner is a roast and they always eat everything but so messy and a faff but worth it I suppose
No one ever cooks for me but love going to a nice steak place just need to take a friend

@Bowchicawowwow I've been to a few, and always been disappointed.

The breakfasts are ok, but I don't rate the roast, it's a bit too school dinnery.

I looked at Toby carvery online but I just thought I could make something nicer and cheaper so I went to M&s and got food there, I'll be turning on the oven soon and putting it in.
Hope you all enjoy your dinners tonight, whatever they may be.

We're having lamb chops from the farm shop butcher with roast potatoes cooked in dripping, from the farm butchers, with garden peas & gravy.

Was going to be chips but it's Sunday so it's got to be roast pots and I can't be arsed to faff with chips.

Me tooooo

I've got to bloody cook it instead

Ahh my mum is no longer alive, but nothing is better than my mums good roast.

I agree, my own roast dinners are so tasty but it takes away some of the enjoyment when you've cooked it yourself. I'm always disappointed by any I have in pubs and carvery's are generally the worst.

It would be so lovely if someone would cook it for me exactly as I like it with crispy potatoes, lashings of gravy, really tasty stuffing.

Let's take it in turns to cook a roast for eachother! I miss my mum's roasts - although I think mine are better! It's just nice to have someone else cook for you .