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A traditional Roast On A Sunday

264 replies

Middicat · 24/10/2021 20:21

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.

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OverByYer · 24/10/2021 21:32

Agree not much effort at all.

CruellaDeVilla · 24/10/2021 21:32

I love them.

Today we had a chicken stuffed with garlic and lemon
roast potatoes with rosemary and a roasted head of garlic
broccoli with anchovies, garlic, chilli and rosemary
Roast carrots with a honey mustard dressing
Minted peas
Green beans

It was amazing and the house smelled gorgeous

CruellaDeVilla · 24/10/2021 21:34

I agree that it’s the timing and the prep that takes the time.

EvilRingahBitch · 24/10/2021 21:35

I love a roast and aim to have one once a week, although in the summer that might be just a roast chicken with salad and crusty bread and a very light gravy made with juices and white wine.

If I didn't have the time to do it properly I'd much rather have it with Aunt Bessie's roast spuds and parsnips and ready prepped veg than not have it at all (I can knock up a creditable gravy from the meat juices in 15 minutes and that's non-negotiable). Frozen roast spuds aren't as nice as the real thing parboiled and roasted in hot fat, but they're a decent compromise given the saving in time, effort and washing up. And actually I think frozen roast parsnips are usually better than my own home made efforts.

thefirstmrsrochester · 24/10/2021 21:37

Bloody love a Sunday roast. I do like cooking though. Rules in my house are that the cook has naught to do with the clearing up, washing up etc. I suggested a curry tonight and the house was crestfallen at the prospect. Still waiting on the troops loading the dishwasher right enough Hmm

Forgothowmuchlhatehomeschoolin · 24/10/2021 21:40

Cooked one today for six of us...First one for weeks and it was lovely bit omg the clearing up afterwards is a pain!

Darbs76 · 24/10/2021 21:42

Well I think if he’s the cook he’s got a point. I enjoy a roast, but I don’t enjoy half of 1 or my 2 days off invested in cooking it and cleaning up after it. So no I don’t make one weekly.

Wineat5isfine · 24/10/2021 21:44

Our whole family love a Sunday roast. We usually only have them in autumn / winter though - and this is every sunday.

I love to cook them and do the majority of cooking.

Perhaps you could offer to cook then occasionally and swap roles!

hellcatspangle · 24/10/2021 21:45

I bloody love a roast. Now there's just the two of us we tend to just go out for one!

sleepyhoglet · 24/10/2021 21:46

I don't think it's any more effort than any other meal although the washing up isn't fun!

sleepyhoglet · 24/10/2021 21:47

Ok, so I don't make my own gravy and cheat with aunt Bessie style roast potatoes Blush

BritWifeInUSA · 24/10/2021 21:47

What does having young child have to do with who cooks it? I don’t get why you say that your husband has to cook it because you have young children. If you like it so much, you cook it.

LittleBearPad · 24/10/2021 21:50

@BritWifeInUSA

What does having young child have to do with who cooks it? I don’t get why you say that your husband has to cook it because you have young children. If you like it so much, you cook it.
This is a very valid point.
Hmmmm2018 · 24/10/2021 21:50

Over lockdown we started having a weekly Sunday roast having not ever really done it as an adult and a few weeks ago I suggested we could try something different next Sunday, the answer was a resounding no. The whole family are loving a good old Sunday roast now and I suspect a mutiny will occur if I try and slip in a lasagne.

ouchmyfeet · 24/10/2021 21:50

@BabbleBee

I love a roast but it is a faff to cook it.
This. We don't have them very often because they are a faff. If you want it, you cook it.
bogeythefungusman · 24/10/2021 21:52

We've just finished our Sunday roast. Outstanding yorkies. It was delicious and enough for another meal. Don't do it every week, depends what we're up to, but it's been a dreich old day and pottering about in the kitchen for an hour has been lovely.

LittleBearPad · 24/10/2021 21:52

@Hmmmm2018

Over lockdown we started having a weekly Sunday roast having not ever really done it as an adult and a few weeks ago I suggested we could try something different next Sunday, the answer was a resounding no. The whole family are loving a good old Sunday roast now and I suspect a mutiny will occur if I try and slip in a lasagne.
Tbf a lasagne is at least as much faff. I made Nigellas lasagne of love that was a pita. My normal one isn’t but still more faff than a roast.
TellySavalashairbrush · 24/10/2021 21:53

The cook should have the ultimate decision in what to cook. I’d eat anything if someone else was cooking for me. That said, I don’t get how cooking a roast is a faff. One of the easiest things to cook IMO.

longtompot · 24/10/2021 21:55

I cook a roast on a Sunday 9 times out of 10. We all love them, well, my ds not so much but he has left home now.

Chocolatewheatos · 24/10/2021 21:57

I love a roast but I've never cooked one every week and wouldn't expect DH to. I haven't had one since DS was born and I need one badly!

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 24/10/2021 21:58

We like them, have one most weeks - not at lunchtime, though, alway evening meal. But not so much in summer..

I don’t find them much more of a faff than other meals - more mess and washing up, though. Not that it bothers me. I cook, dh clears up the kitchen - I’m a messy cook - and loads the dishwasher. And unloads it in the morning. 🙂

Longdistance · 24/10/2021 22:00

I love a roast. Dh on the other hand likes to think outside the box —twit— and orders pasta and such shit on a Sunday.
Sunday is for roasts only as far as I’m concerned. It’s beaten in me with my dm declaring Italy as rubbish as they don’t eat roasts on a Sunday 😂

jamandmarmalade · 24/10/2021 22:04

I'm with your Dh. Why spend the majority of the one proper free day just revolving around one meal. Especially if he spends his time doing it? Fine if you want to cook it but not him. Week day meals are not comparable to the time and expense of a Sunday roast.

Could you compromise and go out for a Sunday dinner? Let the pub do all the work then you get your Sunday dinner and he doesn't have to eat the same meal as you.

Maybe once a month?

CorvusPurpureus · 24/10/2021 22:09

Unless it's an occasion, I tend to knock it out roasting tin style these days.

Chicken thighs & parboiled potatoes roasting in the tin. With stuffing balls added later.

Big pile of steamed carrots, broccoli & peas.

Gravy made from veg stock ( freezer full of it).

It's probably one of the easiest meals I'd cook all week.

We don't tend to eat much red meat, but when I do cook beef it's easier still - it just goes in the oven...? People can eat the rarer bits or the well done ends.

Ok, I'll grant you there's a knack to decent yorkies, but if that's too much faff they're easily bought frozen.

It is definitely not my favourite cuisine, but I would argue that it is easy if you start with a decent bird/joint.

No faffing about because you can't find the fenugreek or the pomegranate seeds or whatever - you just take good quality meat, shove it in the oven, & dosh up vegetables alongside, job done.

I'd definitely find it more trouble to cook a good curry or lasagne from scratch!

RiverSkater · 24/10/2021 22:10

I love it
Buy ready made everything, Yorkshire puss, roast potatoes, gravy and microwave bags of veg so it's less cooking.