To think a roast dinner is nicer if you have it infrequently

[Meruem]

As a kid we had a roast every Sunday but once I had my own DC it became an infrequent “treat”. I just got very bored of having one every Sunday. I did an impromptu one tonight and my (now adult) DC really appreciated it but both said it wouldn’t be special if I made one every week. Although DS did say he wouldn’t turn down a weekly one
So AIBU to make it a rare treat?
YABU - Sunday wouldn’t be Sunday without a roast
YANBU - it’s more special to have a roast infrequently

I could happily eat one every day.
For me though the cooking is a right faff though. I don't know how people cook one for lunch every weekend.
I much prefer to cook one mid-week when it's only me at home, I can do all the preparation in peace and it doesn't feel like a waste of the day.

I love a roast dinner over the autumn/winter. I think they're pretty easy to cook:

• Put chicken in oven.
• Chop some potatoes, carrots, parsnips, red onion.
• Parboil potatoes, carrots and parsnips, put in oven for an hour.
• Chuck red onion in oven for about 30 minutes.

Take chicken out to rest, pop Yorkshire puddings (pre made or home made batter) for 5 minutes, boil some greens (mix of broccoli, green beans peas) on the hob for 5 minutes, and mix gravy granules with hot water. Done. The actual preparation time is probably like 15 minutes, the rest is just waiting for the oven to do it's thing. 1 saucepan, 1 colander, 2 or 3 oven trays to wash up.

We have them almost every week...apart from tasting nice they are healthy and both DSs like them (chicken, potatoes, veg).

I've recently been alternating with Italian Sunday lunch dishes for variety (eg, crespelle, lasagne etc).

I think they're pretty easy to cook:
- Put chicken in oven.
- Chop some potatoes, carrots, parsnips, red onion.
- Parboil potatoes, carrots and parsnips, put in oven for an hour.
- Chuck red onion in oven for about 30 minutes.
Take chicken out to rest, pop Yorkshire puddings (pre made or home made batter) for 5 minutes, boil some greens (mix of broccoli, green beans peas) on the hob for 5 minutes, and mix gravy granules with hot water.
Done. The actual preparation time is probably like 15 minutes, the rest is just waiting for the oven to do it's thing.
1 saucepan, 1 colander, 2 or 3 oven trays to wash up.

I see this kind of post frequently and it is not my experience of cooking a roast at all.
Meat needs prep and basting,
Potatoes, carrots and parsnips all take different times,
Yorkshire puddings take a good 15-20 mins plus making and resting the batter,
I don't like gravy granules so make gravy from the meat juices, usually make a simple stock for it too,
Then there's the other accompaniments depending on the meat, cauliflower cheese, creamed leeks, apple sauce, stuffing, pigs in blankets, mint sauce, bread sauce etc.
I do one pot bung in the oven type things but they're not a roast to me.

And I forgot mashed potatoes it's not a roast without them!

We all love a nice roast dinner so we often have it twice a week during the colder months. Never get fed up!

@twobrews

Each to their own, I don't like cauliflower cheese, creamed leeks, apple sauce, stuffing, pigs in blankets, mint sauce, bread sauce etc, so don't bother with them.

Also wouldn't waste filling myself up on mashed potatoes over roast potatoes .

I make one most Sundays and rotate which meat we have.

I prep it before we go to rugby training and set the timer on the oven so it starts before we get home then all I need to do when I get in is make stuffing, turn over roast potatoes/parsnips and then when the meat comes out to rest, put the stuffing, cauliflower cheese or creamed leeks in to cook along with the Yorkshire pudding batter. Put the carrots on to boil, microwave frozen mash, put peas in with the carrots, carve meat and make gravy.

It’s one of the easiest meals I make all week, much quicker than making a lasagne etc.

Yanbu, I also got incredibly bored of the roast every sunday when I was a kid. My parents never understood, but I've always been the type of person who gets bored of foods if I have them too often.

[quote Hobnobsandbroomstick]@twobrews

Each to their own, I don't like cauliflower cheese, creamed leeks, apple sauce, stuffing, pigs in blankets, mint sauce, bread sauce etc, so don't bother with them.

Also wouldn't waste filling myself up on mashed potatoes over roast potatoes .[/quote]
YOU DONT LIKE CAULIFLOWER CHEESE OR PIGS IN BLANKETS??????

Is everything ok? Seriously????!

Agree! Having a roast dinner occasionally makes it more of a special event. My Dad does the best roast dinner and it's a real treat when he does one for us all.
Its also nice to go to a country pub on a Sunday for one in Winter, log fire and all that....if we are still allowed to.....

@ShirleyPhallus

Nope, I don't like cauliflower and smothering it in cheese doesn't change that. I like sausages and bacon, but not together or with gravy.

Each to their own, I don't like cauliflower cheese, creamed leeks, apple sauce, stuffing, pigs in blankets, mint sauce, bread sauce etc, so don't bother with them.

Also wouldn't waste filling myself up on mashed potatoes over roast potatoes

Poor you

I LOVE a roast and if I don't have one on a Sunday I feel all out of sorts. I happily cook it, and I look forward to it week on week. If I can't cook one on a Sunday we have it another day. For a treat we go out for one.

And Christmas dinner.. I think about Christmas dinner probably every day. Favourite meal of the year.

Just talking about roast dinners is making my mouth water

Roast the veg in baking trays & it's not hard work. I like it weekly. Christmas has so many other trimmings it's not the same.

Apart from in the summer I do a roast most weekends
Family all love it and particularly when DC were little it was good as there were bits of it all of them would eat
I actually find it less work than some of the other things I make
I work full time in a stressful job and for me it's my hour or so of being a housewife and I often cook something else for the freezer,do some baking etc

We have one a week. I love them each time. Would do it more if I had time!

agree, I had one recently at toby C, but I have never been bothered about them. It was that on Sunday or chicken and rice which I much preferred

We have a roast most weeks. Started when the kids were small because they seemed to enjoy it more than most family meals and then just found it was really nice. The regularity of it is part of the attraction, something to look forward to every week instead of a big production once every few months. It isn't a huge faff like the Christmas turkey. It doesn't take that much work at all when you've done it so much it's become routine. But it's a bit of a small treat every week and it's relatively inexpensive. But agree with previous poster that it doesn't have to be Sunday lunch. We had it Friday nights for a long time and that was a great way to end the week.

I love a roast dinner and I especially love cooking a roast dinner while drinking wine and listening to music. We don't really have many traditions but a roast dinner on a Sunday is one of them.

And I'm completely the opposite and don't enjoy a roast cooked by other people as much because mine are the best

Definitely not every weekend. gets boring and I really can't be arsed clearing up afterwards.

We have a roast dinner pretty much every Sunday. I make it, it’s always amazing and that includes those eating it saying it’s the dogs bollocks. Family and friends are always waiting for an invite to have my goose fat roasted potatoes, sautéed cabbage and leeks. I rotate the meat as well. Chicken, beef, lamb, gammon/pork with crackling. Gravy from scratch.
I’ve have only ever had one decent roast in a pub, that was a few weeks ago. My fil was surprised I like it

I grew up in the Uk but I and my parents were born abroad so roast dinners were never a 'thing' in our house. Plus my dad was usually working on Sunday so we hardly ever got the chance to all sit down and have lunch together. We'd have one roast a year on Christmas Day and it was a real occasion (my mom's stuffing recipe is a family secret and leaves us all fighting for leftovers 😂) I think they wouldn't have felt special if we'd had them every week. I didn't realise until I got older that some people do literally have them every single Sunday, or even more often.

I very very rarely make them at home now, partly because I dislike a lot of the traditional roast accompaniments and partly because I find them a huge faff that means a lot of work for not much payoff and a massive amount of washing up.

I'm forced to make them every week at work and I absolutely DETEST them with the fiery intensity of a thousand suns. They are the most annoying pain in the arse dish on the menu and I hope to God that one day they will see the light and stop doing them!

@twobrews

I could happily eat one every day. For me though the cooking is a right faff though. I don't know how people cook one for lunch every weekend. I much prefer to cook one mid-week when it's only me at home, I can do all the preparation in peace and it doesn't feel like a waste of the day.

We don't cook it for lunch. We eat in the evening, same as every other day of the week

@WonderMoon

Agree! Having a roast dinner occasionally makes it more of a special event. My Dad does the best roast dinner and it's a real treat when he does one for us all. Its also nice to go to a country pub on a Sunday for one in Winter, log fire and all that....if we are still allowed to.....

I don't agree about going out for Sunday roast. It is just never the same.

A roast has to be cooked, dished up and eaten and they can't, obviously, do that in a restaurant. Also they often use frozen roast potatoes and/or yorkies. Just nowhere near as nice