Does anyone still cook a weekly roast on Sunday?

[AnnaBellaCruella]

Does anyone still do this? Just pondering what to prepare today and am quite fancying a curry! Do you cook (or go out for) a traditional roast dinner on a Sunday?

No, we never have a roast. Can't remember the last time we had one. We don't even have a turkey roast for Christmas Day!

We have a roast almost every Sunday, as I did growing up. I love the feeling of the tradition and it's the meal that seems to be most popular with the family. I don't find it a faff at all; putting a chicken or joint in the oven is effortless.

It’s just so much meat 🤢

We've changed our planned pie today in favour of roast pork because of this thread

Not if it's a vegetarian Sunday dinner, Ghosttile.

Not always a roast, but we do have a big lunch/ dinner on a Sunday with all the little extras.

Not in summer, but the rest of the year I do. Usually beef, chicken or gammon. Occasionally lamb.

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We have chicken tandoori roast if I can be bothered. Served with pullaou rice and a mild, dry veg curry with daal. Mango ice cream for pudding if anybody has room.

Yep, temp hit 43 today but Sunday is roast day-in fact we haven't had a roast at home for a few weeks and the children begged me to cook at home today.

Yes, I changed my mind, I have just cooked chicken, roasties, veggies, Yorkshire puds and made gravy to rehear later when I fancy it 😋

Really like the idea of roast chicken with salad, will definitely do that soon

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@Illogicalmadness

We have chicken tandoori roast if I can be bothered. Served with pullaou rice and a mild, dry veg curry with daal. Mango ice cream for pudding if anybody has room.

Oh that sounds so good!

@Ghosttile

It’s just so much meat 🤢

I have quorn ‘chicken & bacon’ lattice instead of the meat. I really enjoy that

@Ghosttile - most of our plate is veg, I do at least three different vegetables (always three steamed/boiled and extra if I've got beetroot or squash or something that can be baked in the oven at the same time) and potatoes. Now there's only three of us eating meat, we buy a pretty small joint.

@Spidey66

We normally do unless it's really hot when we'll have a bbq instead.

We're not having one today, because I'm having gallbladder surgery on Tuesday and the hospital put me on a special diet to shrink my liver. Well not special....fecking Slimfast for 2 weeks (except its been delayed so was nearly 3). I hate slimfast!

Oh gosh, that sounds tough. Good luck

Nope. Nobody likes roast in our house so it would be an expensive waste.

I do, most weeks. We tend to have ours on a Saturday though, because we go to a (male) friend's house where I cook for DH, friend, and usually a couple of other (male and single) friends too. We do it on a Saturday because roast = wine or beer to accompany it, and those of us who work (some of us are retired) prefer not to drink on the day before having to get up early. Yesterday we had roast lamb and all the veg, followed by lemon meringue pie. It's fun, because I enjoy cooking, but if I didn't, I wouldn't do it!

I don't always cook a roast on Sunday, but I do generally have a more formal meal, with wine and a pudding, than I would cook for weekday dinner.

We did during lockdown as it was a way of rounding the week off and having something a bit special, as well as giving my partner something to do on a Sunday afternoon when we’d normally have been out and about.

Absolutely! It’s lamb today 😋

No, but if I'm going to cook a roast it's almost always on a Sunday. I did ask what DS would like with his salmon for dinner today and he said oh no mummy no roasty chicken today? He's two....

Can't be arsed with the faff and the cleaning up. There's a carvery pub 5 minutes walk from my house so if I feel the urge I go there,

Yes in winter but rarely in summer. I do it for evening meal though

Ah I can't wait for mine,it smells gorgeous