Courgette on a roast dinner

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Had a lovely day out with relatively new partner yesterday (8 months, live together) got home and he said go chill in the bath I'll cook a roast dinner.

I'm thinking, this is pretty cool. Come down later to be handed a roast chicken dinner. Comprised of roasties, chicken, Yorkshire, leeks, parnips, carrots, stuffing and a small pile of salty green mush.

I'm like, err, is this leek a different way? He's like try it..it's courgette.

YANBU - absolutely no courgette mush on a roast.
YABU - he cooked you a roast fgs.

Yeah you can't complain when someone else has done all that cooking.

I’d think it was weird, but I’d try it to be polite. Plus I’d be happy to be cooked a roast!! Was it nice?

Just a different type of veg. I bloody love corgette so I'd like that, veg is just veg. Sounds lush anyway.

I don't think it's the strangest roast dinner veg. Sweetcorn far worse!

I'd have been rightly and genuinely appreciative to his face after such a lovely gesture but internally a bit 'courgettes?!!'. Did he say he includes them regularly or just had some to use up? They don't taste strongly of much so no big deal but a bit watery and summery to go with gravy etc.

LTB!

What's next?! Aubergine??

We all have our quirks when it comes to a roast dinner. I think it's weird when people pair cauliflower cheese with their roast dinner so I wouldn't be too shocked at some lil ole courgette making an appearance.

'chill in the bath whilst I make you a roast' sounds 10/10 though.

Some vegetables do not belong on the same plate as gravy. Courgette is one of them.

He cooked , that's all that matters!

I think it sounds quite nice, although sadly you have to LTB anyway for doing Yorkshire pudding with chicken.

Bleugh to salty green mush of courgette.

But as you had 3 other veg, and roasties, and even Yorkshire pudding then I say he still did well so have voted YABU!

I'd phone the police. Emergency number, obviously.

My MIL puts peppers on her roasts.

Peppers.

They're even served in a separate bowl because SIL hates them.

PEPPERS!!!!!

You need a green veg. So why not courgette.

(My family usually has broccoli)

whenever there's a thread about eating your 5 a day some people will post 'I always include peppers and corn on the cob and turnip' when I cook a roast dinner. They should be on a register quite frankly.

I absolutely love courgettes and would saute them with chilli and garlic on a roast chicken dinner, or lamb. Not beef or pork though.

I'm torn OP. He did cook you a roast. But courgettes are not acceptable. If there was enough gravy then I might let it go, otherwise look out for other red flags, such as peppers.

courgettes and lamb definitely go together. very Greek pairing.

I'm on the fence, absolutely he cooked you a roast but no, courgettes do not belong on a roast dinner...neither do leeks

You can have my chicken & I'll have your courgettes!!

and the PP can give me her Yorkshire's if she's that upset at being served them with chicken!

I wonder if he intended them to be mush though, and if so (or not even) I wonder how he cooked them? With a fussy I've have roasted them.

He sounds like a keeper, but maybe you need a 'fussy dinner to me is..' conversation. He might feel equally unhappy if you add or omit one of his items that makes a roast a roast.

Was the rest of the meal nice? Sounds delicious to me. I sometimes add steamed courgette or grated/steamed with parmesan on top to a meal- even a roast. That courgette sounds overcooked though.

Drip feed incoming...

He did not roast the parsnips. They were just boiled then kinda lightly fried.

Why was it mushy? Sounds boiled to a pulp. That’s no way to treat a courgette!

Courgettes dipped in egg, then Panko breadcrumbs then put in the oven are an amazing addition to roast dinner.