Sunday Roast v anything Else !

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My husband thinks his head would drop off if he didn’t have his traditional Sunday roast.

i’ve tried to explain that it’s not like it was 20 yrs ago !

So - tomorrow are you having

a) A traditional Sunday Roast
b) a different at home meal
c)eating out
d) something else

Team work.. perfect!

We always had a roast dinner on a Sunday when I was a kid. Church, club for a panda pop and a bag of bacon frazzles and then to grandparents for dinner followed by vienetta. Happy times.

We so still like a roast but maybe do one once every 6 weeks or so.

Today DH is making a chicken pie.

b: I'm doing a chicken chasseur - a family favourite.

We do all like a roast dinner, but honestly, both DH and I grew up in houses of roast dinner every single bloody Sunday, and got bored of them. Now we do a full-blown "roast with all the trimmings" maybe 4 or 5 times a year.

B. I don't mind a roast but after spending all weekend cleaning or ferrying kids to activities, a roast is the meal that tends to use every pan, dish etc and make loads of washing up so I avoid at all costs. Friday I would consider a roast. Sunday no thanks unless it's a special occasion.

We always have a roast on a Sunday, unless it’s absolutely boiling in the midday of summer. We all like it (which is rare) and I enjoy cooking it. It’s nice to have a day off the whole ‘what shall we have for dinner’ dilemma

Love a nice roast but I don’t do them every week and certainly not in the summer (🤢).

I have a chicken roast waiting to be cooked but I might actually do pizza instead tonight. Love a homemade pizza. Nom.

We never have a Sunday roast, tell your husband our heads are very much still on!

Roast dinners are a scam. I did one this morning, which meant coming back from a nice rainy walk early so there was time to heat the oven and get the chicken in, but that meant children home with nothing to do, either wandering in and doing things at me (“Look at me hop!”) or wanting to help by peeling their fingers off, then it’s a couple of hours of flat-out boring work – all the peeling and chopping and parboiling and things in and out of the oven, none of it difficult but so much of it, only for it to be eaten in about five minutes. After which you’re knackered from the sheer weight of all the stodge and the sink is full of cooking pans and serving dishes and on the side there’s that one bowl full of the fat you skimmed off the roasting pan before making the gravy, and the fridge smells like chicken for days.

I’d rather something like my stepmother made the other day – a simple venison stew with mashed potatoes and spring greens. Three things done elegantly and well, looked beautiful on the table, and because the stew was slow-cooked and the mashed potatoes and greens were done right at the end, we were able to be out of the house for a mammoth walk most of the morning.

However: DD did eat four different types of vegetables, and Nigella’s perfect roast potatoes really are perfect, and will make a good spicy hash tomorrow, so it’s not all terrible. (I do think the only reason to make a roast dinner is so you can later have hash, and very good sandwiches.) And I hid in the pantry afterwards eating secret chocolate. On balance, 6/10 but I have notes.

B

DH loves them (one who grew up with them every week) and I don’t think they’re worth the mess nor something I ever really have a taste for. The amount of dishes and appliances my DH uses to make them when he is really the only one that enjoys them annoys me because he’ll wait til the next day to take care of it, leaving most of the kitchen a bomb site because he wants to listen/watch the football instead of cleaning as he goes and then too lazy to deal with it directly after he eats, just leaving everything to soak overnight.

Rather he just go to a pub and eat one, there are numerous places around us to do so.

@BellaJuno today I used paprika, coriander, cumin (seeds) , cinnamon, some garlic, and onion powder, black pepper, salt, chilli flakes, if tight for time I've used the Dunn's River all purpose or jerk seasonings, we have a local Caribbean supermarket but don't Tesco/Asda stores have it. Rub the spices and a little olive oil all over the skin, chop a lemon in half and shove it in the cavity. Pour 200ml wine and 200ml chicken stock into a roasting tin, deskin half/full bulb garlic I like smoked garlic but ordinary is fine put that in the tin and the chicken on top. Cover loosely with foil. Roast for two hours on 150-160.
Take it out put the remaining liquid in a saucepan to start gravy. Whack the oven up to 200+ for 20 minutes chicken back in to crisp.
You can add an extra 100-200 ml liquid at the start and do potatoes in the same tin which is really easy, they're also relatively low fat for rusty potatoes. I don't even peel them, just chop then in halves/quarters depending on size. (I've not done that today though)
Sprouts just get peeled and into food processor to shred , garlic chili olive oil (tiny bit) in a large wok or frying pan , saute for 2-3 minutes just before dishing up.
Steam broccoli, sweet potato mash much the same as usual mash but cooks much quicker and more flavour so only needs a tiny bit of butter not loads, and seasoning.
Make gravy as you usually would but because the juices from the roasting tin have the spices garlic lemon etc, it makes it tastier.

We’re having a shop bought steak pie with mash and peas. I’ve had a busy weekend and can’t be faffed with doing a roast and cleaning up afterwards.

Sticky Korean beef, broccoli and rice.
With spring rolls.
Strawberry gateaux for after.

I love a roast, but it’s enchiladas for us this week.

I love roasts but I'm not allowed to use the oven so I can only make things you can cook on a stove. Today I made chicken with mushrooms in a creamy sauce with truffle and artichoke pesto and rice. I serve the mushrooms to my mum and serve the chicken to myself

Dare I ask — why aren’t you allowed to use the oven?

I don't cook a roast on Sundays just because the expectation annoys me.

I'll sometimes do one (a few times a year) on a Friday or a Saturday.

We are having chicken and asparagus with a Béarnaise sauce.

My mum has dementia and for some reason the idea of food cooked in the oven really makes her go sideways.

We're making some sort of roasted golden veggie soup and cheesey crumpets assuming theres the ingredients to make crumpets.

But we are on a bloody misery diet of fuck all & dust so thats our treat for the week (it is truly dire and shite but also necessary).

I do a roast maybe on sunday a month but the odd tuesday I might bother instead as I work from home and kids have no activities.

Today though we are having chicken cashew stir fry.

DH grew up having a roast every Sunday (and meat & 2 veg every week night) so hates that kind of food. I might do a basic chicken dinner on a Monday just to get some veg into us after the weekend but we don't particularly enjoy it, just have it to tick a box!

Shepherd's Pie for us tonight with Yorkshire Puds, I'm debating whether to have a glass of wine first although I drink my bodyweight in prosecco last night...

A - roast. But we only have one every few weeks - not every Sunday.

Usually no roast. Maybe 6 times a year including Christmas?

Tonight we are having pork souvlaki. Last week I think we had meatballs.

I don't know if this will help as I don't know your circumstances or what it is specifically that upsets your DM but we've got one of the ninja foodi air fryers with two drawers and you can fit a medium chicken in the larger capacity one, and it takes just under an hour to cook perfectly, and also does amazing roasties in around half an hour.

I love roasts but I'm not allowed to use the oven
Why not?

Thank you, it was lovely. Ready in an hour from I put the oven on, which is what I like!