A traditional Roast On A Sunday

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I cannot lie I love love love a traditional roast on a Sunday I look forward to it all day. My husband on the other hand is saying it is not the 1950s anymore and it is old hat to want this and he reckons very few people actually have a roast at home on a Sunday each week.

Am I being unreasonable to have this one meal I really enjoy each week. Am I alone?

I would say that his argument also involves the fact that as we have young children he usually ends up cooking most of it and he says it is not worth all the effort!!!! I disagree - would also like to add we usually have what he likes on any given day of the rest of the week.

I love a roast. But I’m the main cook in the house so I decide when we have it (ie when I can be bothered). We don’t have it every week because although it’s fairly straightforward, it’s time consuming to cook and involves a lot washing up and tidying away compared to a more simple dinner. Our children are 6 and 9 so can entertain themselves now so there’s not a childcare issue I’m just too knackered sometimes. I’d be really fed up if I was expected to cook it every week. Dh doesn’t cook so I pretty much choose a lot of the time. Maybe you should cook it if you want it.

Love it & usually have it on Sundays but for tea not lunch.

to those who are saying it is hard to cook.

For me it is not hard, it is easy, but it is time consuming.
It is several hours work. A lot of that is waiting time, which I why I actually think it is the perfect meal for Christmas day - shove something in the oven and go back and talk and drink and do presents and then go and shove next thing in the oven.

and to be honest, I would never ever do frozen roasties or frozen yorkshires. I'd rather eat something else!

How is a roast “a faff”? Am I missing something here? I just stick it in the oven and leave it to roast itself. Are other people standing there stirring it?!
When the family are up for Easter, we stick a whole leg of lamb in the oven after church and go out for a walk round the loch while it cooks. Christmas ditto, but with a turkey.
It is way simpler than grinding ten different spices and chopping meat and veg for a curry, then standing there frying it and making a fiddly sauce etc. Or making pastry for a pie.
It’s probably the least faffy meal I ever make!

Every few weeks, more in the Autumn/Winter. Don’t find it a faff at all 🙄 Work out your timings and you’re all good! Started one at about 4:30 here this evening, ate around 6:30. Made an apple crumble and custard for dessert as well. Half watched last night’s Strictly at the same time and had a nice glass of red.

The roast meat isn’t the faff it’s the roast potatoes and parsnips that require watching and turning (can’t abide frozen or ready prepared ones).

@MrsSkylerWhite There’s always a place at the table if you want to come 😃 ❤️

Yanbu to like a roast, they're nice but I wouldn't want one every week.
Yabu to expect someone else to cook one every week if he doesn't actually want one.

I can’t stand a “quick roast” with frozen potatoes and Yorkshire puddings so will only cook one if we have friends over.
Saaaame. Often these threads go “but there’s no faff – frozen roast potatoes [usually they say “r**sties” but I refuse to countenance this], frozen Yorkshire puddings, Paxo, Bisto, boiled veg.” < not envy.

If I’m going to do it I’ll do it properly and fabulously. With a floral tablecloth for DD to spill gravy all over and some kind of rib-sticking pudding with cream.

I like a roast but definitely not worth the effort. We only have one maybe once or twice a year!

I love a roast but we don't have one every week.

@Babdoc

How is a roast “a faff”? Am I missing something here? I just stick it in the oven and leave it to roast itself. Are other people standing there stirring it?! When the family are up for Easter, we stick a whole leg of lamb in the oven after church and go out for a walk round the loch while it cooks. Christmas ditto, but with a turkey. It is way simpler than grinding ten different spices and chopping meat and veg for a curry, then standing there frying it and making a fiddly sauce etc. Or making pastry for a pie. It’s probably the least faffy meal I ever make!

Don't you have any accompaniments with your leg of lamb?

I cook one probably three weekends out of four (didn't do one today cos I'm not feeling too well). I find them really easy, especially if I get someone else to peel the potatoes, parsnips and carrots - which I usually do :) I do it all from scratch, nothing frozen involved - just because it tastes better that way.

Just read that people buy ready done roast potatoes and frozen Yorkshire puddings 🤮🤮🤮 Why?!
Best Yorkshire pudding recipe ever:
www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/best-yorkshire-puddings/amp
Make the batter, leave it in the fridge for half an hour, heat your oil, pour it in and then 25 mins later, perfection!

Sorry I hate Yorkshire pudding.

My DM was such a bad cook and I had so many horrible roast dinners growing that it put me off them for life.

I've got a new favourite lazy roast recipe that slow roasts a chicken, potatoes, parsnips with wine stock and garlic all in one tray and every time I make a batch of mashed carrot and swede I make a huge pot and freeze portions, I can bung it all in in about 10/15 minutes and then it takes about 3 hours but I don't need to touch it, so we can go out or do anything. The reduced wine/stock makes a lovely gravy , the veg mash goes in the microwave and if we want green veg I do tenderstem broccoli or asparagus because it only takes a few minutes.
I don't even do that every week, I just don't want the same meals all the time.

How is a roast “a faff”? Am I missing something here? I just stick it in the oven and leave it to roast itself. Are other people standing there stirring it?!
Basting the chicken. (To super faff, putting it in breast side down for first 10 mins at full heat, then flipping it and lowering the heat. If it’s a turkey, topping with bacon at some point. It’s like Mariah Carey in its need for attention.) Parboiling potatoes, heating the fat, tipping them in. All the peeling for vegetables, the chopping for stuffing, the end part where you’re trying to foil the meat and make gravy with the juices and warm the plates and serving dishes and drain things.

I prefer my faff upfront, like with a curry: spice grinding and frying and onion chopping, then clear up leave it to get on with itself. A roast you keep having to go and do something else, endless in out in out shake it all about of the oven, and it all comes together in the last 10 steamy minutes with the dirty pans right there while you’re trying to eat. Can’t bear it.

Yes love a roast, have one every Sunday and sometimes midweek as well.

and i am a purist.

beef + yorkshires
chicken + stuffing
lamb + mint sauce/redcurrant jelly
pork + apple sauce.

no need to cook yorkshires with chicken!

I like a roast and usually make one. I don’t find it too much work. I do make my roast potatoes in airfryer. If not a roast I’d do something like cottage pie. Most weeks a roast though.

no need to cook yorkshires with chicken

There is ALWAYS a need to cook Yorkshires!

We have a roast chicken potatoes and one veg once a week not always on a Sunday. But a proper roast with a joint of meat stuffing parsnips etc a few times a year as it’s hard work I think yabvu to insist on a dinner you are not cooking though. I had my first roast in a pub since covid today it was amazing

When I lived with exh and all the children I cooked a roast each week. Now there is only dd and I here it seems a big effort for just the two oof us and so for a while I stopped. For the last six weeks I have started making a roast again and we are both really enjoying it (although I made shepherd's pie today) The best thing about roasts though are the leftovers which means I don't cook on Mondays.

We go out most Sundays for lunch. I love them, grew up having them whereas DH didn't. We go out so I can have a roast and he can have something else. They are a faff to cook for one person.