Is this weird?! Chicken roast with mint and apple sauce

[Mydietstartstomorrow]

I like any roast with all the sauces and my friend thinks it’s weird! I like mint sauce on my veg, apple sauce on the side, and bread sauce if I’ve remembered to pick some up (tried to make some myself once, but had no cloves to hand, it was not good, bread and milk with a bit of onion! 😞). I also have to have Yorkshire puds no matter what.
What “weird” food combinations do you like and get funny looks for?!

@DementedPanda

It's funny as I was just saying to dh on Sunday.. if mustard or horseradish is for beef, mint for lamb, apple for pork, cranberry for turkey... what's foe boring roast chicken?

Paxo 👍

@Mydietstartstomorrow

Glad I’m not the only one! Never heard of lingonberry though *googling now

You get it in ikea.

You'll like it.

Well, it's not traditional, but I figure we should all enjoy our food and if those are the flavours you like, I can't see how it is harming anyone else.

I hate mint sauce and apple sauce with a passion. Horseradish or English mustard with beef or pork is divine. Yorkshire pudding goes with everything.

The only problem is that you can train your tastebuds to want all these different strong flavours on every meal, so that when you have an ordinary meal in a restaurant or at a friend’s, it tastes bland.

There seems to be an American thing, drifting over here, of putting hot sauce on every meal.

I worry that, eventually, we’ll stop enjoying the taste of actual food, and just get our flavour from the added sauce(s).

@Datsandcogs

Chicken, bread sauce. Beef, yorkshires and horseradish sauce. Pork, no thanks, apple sauce if you do. Lamb, mint sauce.

I understand that people like yorkshires with other meats but mostly I don’t mix they accompaniments between the meats.

Same. I only have yorkshires with beef too. For me the traditional combos work for a reason, and swapping them about just doesn't work.

I'd find your combos odd, OP, but I wouldn't judge you for it. If that's what you like, go for it.

Yorkshire puds go with everything. Apple sauce is actually really good with lamb and chicken. Mint sauce with anything other than lamb is, erm, a bit odd.

I would eat bread sauce by the pint on its own with a spoon so no issues if you want to serve it with anything at all here. I've always thought it would probably be really nice with roast belly pork (haven't tried, probably should).

We always had mint sauce on the dinner table on a Sunday regardless of what meat we were having. I also would always have stuffing, it just adds something. I'm not a fan of apple sauce but my dad would often have some of that as well. Yorkshires go with everything.

Yorkshire puddings with all roasts when I used to do a full roast.

Weren’t Yorkshire puddings traditionally eaten first smothered in gravy rather than on the same plate as the meat. So would it have mattered then what roast you were eating.

I can't eat a roast without ketchup. I like apple sausage with any roast meat 🤤

If there are peas on the plate, there’ll be mint sauce on the table!

If I have a cranberry sauce on the go, I’ll pop it on the table with a chicken roast, maybe if there’s lamb & I’ve forgotten the redcurrant.

Horseradish & mustard for beef, mint sauce for lamb (and peas, obviously!), turkey gets cranberry & bread sauces, apple sauce for pork and very rarely, redcurrant for game & lamb at a pinch. And if I remember it.

I have 2 fridges; both doors are packed with half finished sauces (my family despair of me).

There’s also ketchup, normal HP and the king of brown sauce Fruity HP (nearly extinct these days). Mayonnaise, whole grain, Dijon & English mustard, Crucial Garlic & Spicy Mayo sauces. And Encona Scotch Bonnet sauce, Heinz Kebab sauce (found at Morrisons in the summer), and occasionally the odd bottles of Nando Peri Peri. Not forgetting the mild sweet chilli & hot sweet chilli sauces.

(I’ve also got a collection of 1M Scoville sauces & extracts, but they’re more historic artefacts. I can’t do that kind of heat anymore)!

I’m not including mango chutney, lime pickle, Branston Pickle, Piccalilli, acres of sliced gherkins & olives.

Shit. I think I’m in a pickle over condiments.

Also, any roast must include Yorkies, or there is much growling & harrumphing from my daughter. Her boyfriend’s Mum is coming to dinner on Sunday (my daughter is cooking) and the only thing so far on the shopping list is yorkies & ingredients for a Tiramisu they’ve asked me to make.

Oh, I’ve just remembered, one of the fridges contains Banana Ketchup. And it doesn’t deserve to exist in nature, it’s foul.

CentrifugalBumblePuppy You’re my kinda people! 😂

Go for it...all this X sauce only goes with X meat bollox....load of tripe.
We have yorkies with every roast and I'm loving the mint sauce on veg idea...going to try that. Always apple sauce, horseradish, redcurrant jelly on table in our house Sunday evening