To think cooking a roast every weekend is completely unnecessary

[ChristmasAlone]

Stems from a conversation I just had, I'm cooking a roast at the moment and mentioned it was the first one I've cooked this year. I love a roast, but just think cooking one every weekend (I know it's Monday) just feels completely unnecessary and takes away from its beauty if you're having every Sunday.

I like one on a Sunday evening as it feels like a positive end to the weekend. I'm lazy and buy prepped veg etc, so it's no fuss at all.

My OH cooks one every Sunday because he and DD love them. I grew up with my Gran who cooked roasts all the bloody time because anything other than meat, potatoes and 2 veg was usually described as foreign muck (i.e. pasta, curry, fajitas etc) Hence I now find roasts extremely boring!

Voomster each to their own personally I can’t stomach fatty stuff. I always have Yorkshires with beef and make gravy with meat juice (use an oxo good grips fat separation jug) Used to hate normal roast potatoes. Everyone I’ve fed them to loves my air fried roast potatoes with the jdseasonings perfect roast potatoes seasoning on.

It's one of the easiest meals to cook and is my favourite meal. As someone who has been cooking most days for 40 years it's really one of the few meals I look forward to eating.
In fact I don't know why I don’t do them 2 or 3 times a week.

We don’t have them every week, they’re fine for a quick to prep lazy to cook meal but I find them bland and boring. I do them if I’ve got a busy week and then use the leftovers for more easy meals. Probably once per month maybe, in some guise or another.

YANBU

I don't get the obsession with roasts, I find them a bit boring and tend to feel sluggish after one.

I do a mini roast with chicken breasts or chops about once a fortnight. Not usually on a Sunday though as we will often go out for the day.

I think some people must just be better at cooking roasts than others. My family love mine and ask me to cook them. We also love other food but we do like a proper dinner.

I love roasts. My ideal Sunday is getting at about 6am, pottering about with my plants and the radio, then putting the meat on to roast and the steamer on a timer, so I can go out for a walk and then come back for everything to cook in time for lunch at 1pm.

Unfortunately, not only is DP a control freak about the shopping and cooking, he's also very strange about eating and at times, it's just such bloody hard work or he delays and delays it so much, demanding extensive instructions (that he then ignores, but acts as though I've destroyed his one purpose in life if I don't like what's been slapped on a plate and will pointedly refuse to eat anything in front of me for days afterwards - and will refuse anything I cook on the grounds that 1. It's his job to cook 2. I'm not up to doing it physically so he'd feel bad about me doing it and 3. He'd eat too much because I'm too good at cooking.), I've given up and gone to bed.

Roasts are apparently too much to eat or too many things to cook at once at the present time. Food today was thetefore a chicken breast between 2, a quarter of a jar of curry sauce and about 2 tablespoons of wet rice. Yes, it was as miserable and disappointing as it sounds.

I think some people must just be better at cooking roasts than others

I think you've hit the nail on the head there. Would explain a lot of the polar opposite posts in this thread!

@NeverDropYourMoonCup your DH sounds really hard work, I hope he has some redeeming features.

@SlothWithACloth

We do such an version often. Just season and flavour a chicken or thighs and drumstick (herbs or spice rubs work) Peel and cut potatoes and root veg. Season, oil and flavour them. Put both trays in the oven and leave to cook. Get on with other stuff. Maybe baste or turn. Make any other veg on the hob. We like sautéed greens or steamed broccoli. Everyone enjoys it and I don’t think it’s hugely high in calories.

This. We all prefer thigh meat, anyhow.

@NeverDropYourMoonCup, that sounds like a tough way to live. Control freaks are joy zappers.

I don't really give much (if any) thought to what other people think but for what it's worth we have a roast most weekends in autumn and winter. It's one of the meals that is guaranteed to be a success with my kids. Didn't have one this weekend as we had a birthday takeaway instead. I don't find it a faff but then I do a lazy roast - I don't make gravy or Yorkshire puddings from scratch and often use frozen roasties. So a cheat's roast really.

I do one any week when Sunday is spent close to home. Takes me about 30min plus cooking

Love a roast at the weekends, use the leftovers then for weekday meals.

We only have them on Christmas Day as both my husband and I find them very boring. The only thing I like about them is the Yorkshire pudding.

So why do you have one on Christmas Day?

@ShoppingPrecinctPrincess

So why do you have one on Christmas Day?

Because my in-laws would never have a Christmas without one and we celebrate it together.

We have one almost every Sunday. Makes the day feel special for us, DC look forward to it all week and it gets the veg into them easier than any other day. We have a selection of cakes afterwards so it just rounds off the week nicely.

Every Sunday, it's the law in my house. We all get together and chat, my daughter helps do the stuffing balls, my partner does all the washing up and my youngest looks after the dogs while I chill after

I can never understand why people feel it is a faff to cook a roast.

I peel potatoes most days to use in someway, and prepare veg on some sort and put in the steamer, or on the grill. The meat goes in the oven ( if going out slow cooked it not over a hour or so)

Only thing that takes time is preparing the Yorkshire mix, but I do that the night before.

[quote ShoppingPrecinctPrincess]@NeverDropYourMoonCup, that sounds like a tough way to live. Control freaks are joy zappers.[/quote]
Yeah, I'm being a bit harsh because the reality of being with somebody with an established eating disorder gets wearing at times.

@RockingMyFiftiesNot

I think some people must just be better at cooking roasts than others

I think you've hit the nail on the head there. Would explain a lot of the polar opposite posts in this thread!

Yeah sounds like a lot of the cook them weekly just do a very generic low quality roast with little to no effort put in

PickAChew that's a tray bake though!

I think the polar opposites might actually be more to do with some people calling almost/ absolutely anything that involves using the oven to cook any meat a roast, and others having a narrower definition of what "a roast" is.