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?

We had roast pork with all the trimmings on Friday. We also like roast lamb, roast beef, roast chicken ; not a Sunday thing just whenever the mood takes us.

I would love to cook a Sunday roast every week, but mine are never very good unfortunately

My grandmother was from England and she did hot Sunday dinner roasts, but no one else in Australia does it. It died out here around 40 to 50 years ago. No one here can be fucked doing all the roast and potatoes and all that extra. Not even on Christmas day. It's usually a BQQ with pasta salad, potato salad, colesaw etc. Or seafood. I think it's weird going to all that effort once a week. Once in a blue moon maybe, but it's weird people still do that, that it's still a thing. Aint no one got time for all that fussing about. If I had to do a Sunday roast dinner (I'd rather have root canal) I'd buy a hot chicken with coleslaw, pasta salad, etc. It's a waste of time imo. Maybe one in 10 years, but, that's all. We regularly buy hot chickens.

October to May, I'll do a full roast or a 'gravy dinner'. In summer, I'll roast a chicken or some gammon and have it with salad, coleslaw, crusty bread and maybe some new potatoes.

I grew up with Sunday Roast dinners, my kids too. Now they are grown we tend to have a Roast on Saturday evenings when kids come home or when entertaining. Sundays can be lazy with leftovers.

Yep pretty much every Sunday! Roast with all the trimmings.

Today it was roast pork with the most yummy crackling 🤤

English fruit and veg:

In my garden I presently have:
Cooking apples
Desert apples
Plums
Damsons
Pears
Raspberries
Strawberries
Gooseberries
Potatoes
Tomatoes
Beetroot
Onions
Runner beans
Asparagus
Tomatoes

Other English grown fruit and veg:
Peaches, blackberries, mulberries, redcurrants, blackcurrants, whitecurrants and under glass: vines and figs.

Vegetables: cabbages, cauliflower, marrows, squash, leeks, artichokes, Carrots, turnips, swede, parsnips, sprouts, kale, samphire, peas, Broad beans, brocoli and purple sprouting, mushrooms

Lettuce, cucumbers, sweet peppers (under glass), celery, spring onions and add in so many herbs: mint, parsley, thyme, bay, rosemary, sage, oregano, chives and so many more

Hazelnuts, sweet chestnuts, also spring to mind the former I have in the garden too.

And I am sure there must be many more I have failed to mention.

Not every week but are having roast chicken this evening, DH & I like roasts more than DS does. Often wonder how I managed to produce a child who doesn't like roast potatoes....

I do one every week, it’s one meal all 4 of my boys all eat so do it at least once a week. Does take a while but happy because they eat it. I like one out, so someone else can cook and wash up - I’m rubbish at beef so that would be my choice out.

No never in summer. In winter most weeks

I will about once a month. Today I’m making roast pork (crackling is looking amazing) roast potatoes, parsnips, buttered hisbi and carrot and swede. I’ve also made stuffing balls and will do Yorkshire puddings. Plus gravy of course

I'm doing a roast chicken with roast potatoes, salad and French stick! Yum yum!!

Very rarely , maybe once every six weeks

Today hubbie is lovingly stirring a vat of caramelising onions for French onion soup

@icedcoffees
Well, at least you admit to stews and meat pies.
I feel you are holding English food to a standard of uniqueness that you wouldn’t with any other cuisine. I’ve eaten something traditional and very similar to pizza in France for example.
I really don’t need to go outside the bounds of my parish to know what English food is @eightyfourandahalf

Very rarely, I work weekend nightshifts. DP and Dd usually spend the morning at his mums where she already overeats so i prefer an easy dinner. Although we are having chicken drumsticks tonight so fake roast.

My parents did, up until my dad died in 2017. My mum is on her own now, and only usually cooks a roast if she has guests staying over. It's a hassle to cook a roast for one, as you'll end up eating it for days.

I feel you are holding English food to a standard of uniqueness that you wouldn’t with any other cuisine.

No, not at all. I just don't think there's anything particularly unique, special or tasty about the vast majority of British food. I wasn't really raised on it so maybe that has something to do with it, who knows.

I’ve eaten something traditional and very similar to pizza in France for example.

Sure, so have I, but pizza is still very much associated with Italy.

I don't think there's much out there that's uniquely British. Stews/pies and maybe roast dinners and things like Toad in the Hole - but again I don't think any of those are particularly meals to shout about - they're all a bit same-y and stodgy imo.

Usually, but not always. I usually do a couple of roasts a week.

I do a roast every week except when the weather is very hot.

most Sundays in the colder seasons, or another dish such as pie or lasagne that takes longer to cook and wouldn't be a weekday meal. The kids enjoy it and it's a nice ritual. We have chicken or pork. I'd like lamb or beef sometimes but they are more expensive.

Yes. The hot couple of weeks we had recently I did a spatchcock chicken on the BBQ but the rest of the time I do a proper roast dinner.

The topic comes up quite often on MN. For me it brings comfort, nostalgia and sets the ambience for Sunday evening. It's not particularly the actual meal I love (I like it a lot!) but the ceremony of it.

I have a brisket ready to come out of the oven as I type. It cooks in my late MiL's casserole pot with lid. I swear even if I cooked fish in it it would smell of slow cooked beef. It's the smell of Sunday.

@icedcoffees

I feel you are holding English food to a standard of uniqueness that you wouldn’t with any other cuisine.

No, not at all. I just don't think there's anything particularly unique, special or tasty about the vast majority of British food. I wasn't really raised on it so maybe that has something to do with it, who knows.

I’ve eaten something traditional and very similar to pizza in France for example.

Sure, so have I, but pizza is still very much associated with Italy.

I don't think there's much out there that's uniquely British. Stews/pies and maybe roast dinners and things like Toad in the Hole - but again I don't think any of those are particularly meals to shout about - they're all a bit same-y and stodgy imo.

And steak and kidney pie is very much associated with England. You don’t have to like English food, but to dismiss its existence, to say that anything you do like in it is not unique so not English is a bit unkind. We had fruit pies before the Mayflower sailed, I’m sure.

I maybe cook a partial roast once a month usually on a weekday. I live with vegetarians so have meat rarely. But I am always happy to have a roast at the pub or if someone invites me for one.

To be honest with roasts I enjoy the trimmings more than the meat. Roast potatoes, stuffing, yorkshire puddings, horseradish sauce, gravy....

And steak and kidney pie is very much associated with England.
You don’t have to like English food, but to dismiss its existence, to say that anything you do like in it is not unique so not English is a bit unkind. We had fruit pies before the Mayflower sailed, I’m sure.

I think you're taking it a bit personally lol.

It's food. I'm allowed to dislike it and say I don't consider it to be unique - that really doesn't make me unkind.

The few foods I do associate with England I (personally) find dull and uninspiring. It's not unkind to have that opinion.