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.

I did request the yorkies.
Maybe we are as weird as each other.
He did try to clear up as well but I told him to go sit down.

Time to stop flogging this dead horse of a relationship and move on I'm afraid

Yorkshire born and bred. Yorkshires go with anything (eg try chilli in a yorkshire pud, or spread with jam or chocolate spread) and any Sunday lunch doesn't deserve the name without one.

oh yes, I boggle at the people who've done 100% of the cooking over the course of their relationship.

Courgette quartered and put in the roasting tin 20 mins before the end, yummy!

Be grateful you had dinner cooked for you.

@GoodChat no need to raise my bar. DP does some other magnificent things in the home but cooking is never going to be one of them! It works for us- he's a partner not a new recruit! Come to think of it there's plenty he does do, that others don't. Guess we all just play to our strengths?
Courgettes sound perfectly acceptable to me, why on earth not?

I nearly did a courgette gratin with our roast yesterday! Couldn't be bothered in the end

Preach!!

I love roast courgette

I managed to have Yorkshires for all three courses of a pub meal in Yorkshire once - still one of the highlights of my life :)

Yes to courgette, no to Yorkshire pudding as you weren't having beef.

no to Yorkshire pudding as you weren't having beef.

whaaaaaaaat!!! Yorkshires go with anything

1. I like courgettes but only when roasted with peppers red onions baby tomatoes and whole garlic cloves or in ratatouille which I haven't made in years
2. No to yorkshire pudding with chicken
3. Parsnips must be roasted unless mashed together with carrot dh won't touch them no matter what you do with them

My vegetables go to are peas and carrots for dh Broccoli for me and red cabbage for us both I actually eat any veg so also have the peas and carrots also some sprouts as well even though it's not Christmas

Nope. I will die on the petty hill of YPs only wIth beef!

Rubbish - I've just double-checked this with my Yorkshire mum, and she reassures me that her Yorkshire mum and her Yorkshire grandma, plus all the other Yorkshire relies always served Yorkshire puddings with any meal that had gravy with it - in other words, with any kind of meat or poultry. I mean, just why wouldnt you, when it's so delicious with any sort of gravy? (Even though they used to serve the Yorkshire pudding before the meat itself back in my grandma's day.) 😂

As for mushy courgette, no, never, not with any sort of meal. Roasted, grilled or fried would be OK though.

Absolutely not. The only acceptable way to consume a courgette is in a cake

They go with everything for me but not chicken as chicken isn’t really a roast

It was all going so well till you mentioned the improperly cooked parsnips. 🚩🚩🚩

DH does this. We've been together for 15 years, have two DC, joint mortgage etc and yet I still wonder whether to LTB when they appear with a roast meal. The problem is that I really like courgettes so they are often in the fridge but they don't belong on a roast. A roast is a winter meal to be had with winter veg. Courgettes, peppers etc are summer vegetables.
On the other hand, I will do a roast chicken in the summer and serve it with new potatoes and a salad so I am being a touch hypocritical here

Leeks most definitely belong with a roast. I love a leek.

LTB, courgettes do not belong on a roast, what was he thinking?

on a side note. You managed to be in the bath for as long as it took him to cook a roast? 😱😱😱😱😱

I sometimes make a leeky crumble cheese thingy which is great, especially with chicken.

In what way was it crap food??!!!

Sounds delicious to me.

And what's with the hatred of peppers among some other posters? Roasted peppers with a little balsamic vinegar are a food of the gods - especially the red ones.

Not for me, but be grateful and say nowt.

Then send him round next Sunday, I'll leave the door unlocked.