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Who here has a roast dinner on Sundays?

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FrannyandZooey · 20/08/2006 12:15

Another thread got me thinking. Do most people still do this? Every week, or just sometimes? I occasionally cook a veggie roast in the winter, but not specifically on a Sunday, and never in the daytime.

Are you all washing sprouts, or having a sandwich like us?

OP posts:
iota · 20/08/2006 12:48

we cooked the meat on the BBQ in the heatwave ( has spit roaster)

Lemmingswife · 20/08/2006 12:49

We very rarely have a Sunday roast. Only ever really eat them if we go to my parents house on a Sunday.

Carmenere · 20/08/2006 12:50

Sounds delicious Lgj, wish I could, must get those driving lessons asap! You'll be more careful about offers like that once I'm mobile

northerner · 20/08/2006 12:52

As a kid we used to have a roast at 1pm every Sunday without fail, I loved it - it was my favourite meal of the week cooked by my Dad. His yorkshire puddings are just the best. As a teenager I used to go out clubbing, come back in the early hours of the morning and wake up just in time for my Dad's roast. Heaven.

Then I moved to Harrogate and met dh only to discover that hsi family only have Yorkshire PUds with Beef I do them with any roast be it lamb, chicken or POrk.

Dh works 3 Sundays out of 4 so we only have a rost once a month.

motherinferior · 20/08/2006 13:02

If DP (the Meat Man in the Inferiority Complex) feels the urge and has got his act together.

Today, no. We are having sausages, though, does that count?

SewingMadMummy · 20/08/2006 13:18

We try to have a roast - it dosent always work out though.. Dh is a lorry driver and works odd hours for an agency. Today he is delivering for Marks and Sparks so I made him Steak Pie, New spuds and Veg for 12 o'clock so he would have a hot dinner in him He won't be home till about Midnight and i'll be damned if I am cooking then!! I'm too busy on Mumsnet!!!

MarsLady · 20/08/2006 13:23

Me! The kids peel and chop the spuds and make pud (apple crumble or chocolate cake). Lovely!

Roast chicken, potatoes, veg with apple crumble and cream to follow... that was today's roast. Yum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cg25 · 20/08/2006 13:25

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ComeOVeneer · 20/08/2006 13:27

"veg with apple crumble and cream to follow" , sounds lovely Marsy .

octavia · 20/08/2006 13:27

we do
roast chicken,bread sauce, roast spuds, carrots/swede/cabbage,gravy and cranberry sauce.
lemon meringue for pud (only have a proper pud on sundays)

Cappuccino · 20/08/2006 13:27

mi I thought your dp only cooked two meals

and one of them is a roast?

oh, you're right, he's dreadful

longwaytogo · 20/08/2006 13:56

we do every sunday without fail. Its the only day I can cook a roast successfully. Stick meat and pots in the oven - go to church, stick veg on when get in, dinner ready about 1.30. Very rarely have a pudding though.

misdee · 20/08/2006 13:58

i try to do a roast on a sunday. today we are going to my mums for a roast though. its always better if someone else cooks it.

zaphod · 20/08/2006 14:01

We nearly always do, as all the children like them. Today it's roast beef, prepared by dh, which we will be having this evening. And Apple Crumble, now that you've reminded me.

thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 20/08/2006 14:02

probably every other w/e we'll do a roast - but rarely at lunchtime. the other weekends its still a good meal sitting round the table - saturday and sunday. weekend lunches are usually sandwiches - but still sitting together at the kitchen table

motherinferior · 20/08/2006 17:22

He only cooks two meals in the week, Cappuccino (and he appears to have taken my not madly gentle hints to widen his repetoire on that, hurrah). During the weekend he'll do, oooh, several other things of a carnivorous nature.

Gingerbear · 20/08/2006 17:27

If DH isn't working, then we have a roast most Sundays, more likely at 5pm than lunchtime though.
Today DD and I have had roasted fishfingers and chips

Ladymuck · 20/08/2006 17:30

Well we didn't today, mainly because I skipped church, but usually we do - roast chicken or leg of lamb, sometimes roast pork. Whilst I like beef I never quite seem to manage to cook it well (probably because with everything else I simply set the timer...).

wheelybug · 20/08/2006 17:33

most weeks out of summer (summer = bbq), in the evening though not lunchtime. We are doing one tonight though as the weather is miserable. Roast beef with all the bits plus apple and redcurrant crumble for pudding.

alison222 · 20/08/2006 17:49

Most weeks we do. At 5pm and we all sit around the table to eat - and whatever the meat we have yorkshire pudding - as we love them.
Its the one meal of the week that doesn't get any complaints from anyone, they all eat it all up.
BUT today we didn't I didn't get around to going shopping - so no meat to cook one with. Pasta for tea tonight

tigi · 20/08/2006 18:47

Always!
I have to cook yorkshire pud with everything, else the children moan! I have to make 2 so they all have loads!
They also argue who has the most roasties - like that advert on tv!

MaloryFascinatorTowers · 20/08/2006 18:48

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NomDePlume · 20/08/2006 18:51

We do. Lamb is our fave. DH cooks it, if I did it would be inedible (I can cook, but roasts baffle me).

MaloryFascinatorTowers · 20/08/2006 18:52

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NomDePlume · 20/08/2006 18:52

We don't eat pork.

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