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?

It isn't faff at all @eightyfourandahalf, it's timing and practice.

We always eat our main meal at about 7.30pm at weekends though so the day is free.

And let's not forget: fresh fruit and vegetables.

most of these are not "English food", it's just... food

And I would argue that fruits and vegs are quite grim in the UK compared to local produce you can buy no further than the continent. Transport and/or local climate have a lot to do with it.

Saturday for us. Too tired on a Sunday and sorting kids for the week. Agree with previous poster that non chicken meat joints are v expensive now. Get super bored of chicken but one of the few healthy meals my dc will eat!

We hardly ever have roast. I don’t see the fascination when there are much nicer meals.

Growing up we had Sunday roasts.

Tonight we are having veg biryani.

My mum does. We quite often do, but not always - I do find it handy for meal planning as I know I'll have the leftovers to do stuff with later in the week (I'm not claiming to make a chicken last for a week though!)

None of us have Monday to Friday jobs so a ‘special’ Sunday meal doesn’t work for us.

Every week. My kids and husband love roast chicken and all the trimmings. However with my job I actually get a roast dinner at work in the evening and don't join in the family meal but sit at the table!

@RosesAndHellebores

There's English food and English food:

Steak and kidney pudding and pies are richly unctious

Chicken and ham pie is divine

Pork and game pies with the jelly quivering inside.

Endless game dishes: pigeon, venison, rabbit, pheasant, hare, grouse, etc.

Strawberries, raspberries and endless fruit pies and puddings

Lamb stews and hot pots along with so many other braises, casseroles and stews.

Scottish salmon
Shellfish: crabs, mussels, cockles, whelks

And let's not forget: fresh fruit and vegetables.

I don't associate most of those things with England or English food.

If English food is so amazing, why do no other countries eat it? lol.

I do stews in the colder weather. It takes about 30 minutes to get everything chopped, into the casserole pan and then into the oven on a low heat. Any washing up goes into the dishwasher and you can go out for 4-6 hours and come back to a cooked meal with only one pan to wash up. To me, roasts mean you’re stuck in the house for ages while food is prepped, then cooked, then eaten.

If we are eating at home on a Sunday, we almost always do a roast. If it's too hot, we might stick a chicken in the oven and serve with salad, or we might barbecue. Why? Because we all love a roast dinner; it's less faff than e.g. lasagne, elapsed time is longer so lends itself to a lazy afternoon but hands on time is minimal. And so bloody tasty would fight with curry for my 'last meal'.

I do most weeks we've just had pork with all the trimmings!

“I don't associate most of those things with England or English food.”

Well, you are being unreasonable.

I don't normally but did today.It's summer so I shortened the time of doing one by having no roast potatoes.. just boiled and mashing sweet potatoes instead but I agree with others a Sunday roast is not normally a good idea during summer.Winter I will do a roast every two weeks or so x

We have roasts a couple of times a month, but seldom on a Sunday, just any day we fancy really. So basically that’s a no from me , I would never cook a dish simply because it’s a certain day of the week, well other than Xmas,,😃

Dh cooks them every Sunday, we all love them including the cat.

@Destry

“I don't associate most of those things with England or English food.”

Well, you are being unreasonable.

you might want to start travelling.. they really were not "English food"

The the winter months we have a roast on Wednesday as I work sundays .

Yep we do here I love the smell of a roast on a sunday

Only in autumn-winter and when spring is still relatively cool. Our kitchen gets so warm with the oven on that I can’t face in it the summer months.

Also when it’s bad weather we are less likely to be out and about on a Sunday so have lots of time to do a full roast, but otherwise making the most of the weather in the summer at the weekends so will normally do something simpler/faster.

Yes we do, very rare for me not to do a roast. I guess it was just how I was raised too. But I also like how it sort of rounds off the week too.... in very hot weather I sometimes do Roast chicken with avocado and mango salad, that's become a favourite since last summer...

“you might want to start travelling.. they really were not "English food" smile”

They have been here for centuries. They aren’t recent imports. They are typically English in the same way pasta is typically Italian.

@Destry

“I don't associate most of those things with England or English food.”

Well, you are being unreasonable.

Why, because I associate those foods with cultures other than our own?

Personally, from that list, I only really associate stews and pies with the UK and I'm not really a massive fan of either as I don't find them especially flavourful or enjoyable to eat.

They're also not dishes unique to us - stews are popular in many cultures - Eastern European food features a fair few stews and meat pies as well.

Fish and seafood is, to me, mostly Mediterranean or Caribbean.
Fruit pies and desserts are something you find in pretty much every culture in the world. I more associate them with America than anywhere else, though.
Fresh fruit also features in most cultures' food in one way or another.

Again, there's a reason British food is only popular in Britain! You don't see British restaurants succeeding anywhere else, lol.

@Destry

“you might want to start travelling.. they really were not "English food" smile”

They have been here for centuries. They aren’t recent imports. They are typically English in the same way pasta is typically Italian.

What people are saying is that they're also foods that feature heavily in the cuisine of other cultures.

Pizza = Italian or American (chicago style, for example) but meat stews could be English, Eastern European, Russian or from numerous other countries. I've had meat stew in Italy - it's not something unique to us.

About every 2-3 weeks we have a roast, not so much in the summer although we are having one today. The main reason is that we cook for my elderly dad on a sunday and he likes a roast dinner otherwise we would probably have more things like curry etc but he doesn't like spicy stuff !

Nope because I live on my own! Last had one in about 2017