Roast Dinner in this heat

[GeorginaA]

Being a menu planner, I'd planned roast beef for today. I even still quite fancy eating a roast dinner this evening, but the thought of cooking it is making me sweat buckets let alone the reality.

Am I clinically insane even considering cooking a roast today?

I'm not, we were having chicken curry but Tescos decided that a packet of chip shop curry sauce would do the job so now we are having fish and chips with chip shop curry sauce.

Well, I'm making lasagne! The world, his wife and his dog will be having a BBQ I bet - vastly overrated imo!!

we normally have a roast on sunday buut I am not bothering today, I'm going to do Spag bol.

Ooh, nutty, fish and chips is yummy even in hot weather I think! I had fish and chips on Friday night - YUMTASTIC!

Had bbq last night - not a clue what to do tonight! Definitely not a roast, or anything which requires the oven to be on. Possibly grill some chicken and have a pasta salad or something.

Hmm... so the rest of mumsnet is being eminently sensible

No point in doing a BBQ - due for thunderstorms around 5pm according to weather.com!

Fish and chips sounds yummy though.... dilemma

YAY for the thunderstorm!!

Yes, that's what I thought - I know I was whinging over the lack of summer, but I didn't quite expect dreary rain & cold to suddenly turn into heat wave overnight - can't we have some sort of compromise position?!

lol Georgina, I was just going to start a thread and ask who is bonkers enough to be doing a roast dinner today!

Put the meat in a roasting pan in the garden - it'll cook out there - no need for an oven!

lol Puff - think you might be right!

We have had stir fry steak, veg and noodles with rice for dinner. Only had to have the wok going for 20 minutes and it was lovely.
I wouldn't even consider doing anything requiring the oven being on.

..that would be me then (bonkers enough to do roast)! seemed good idea on thurs when had all ingredients delivered by mr Tesco..
now rather overheated and v.v.full..but dh & ds seem v.v.contented so was worth it I hope!

ham sandwich here - oooh the delights!

I did a big cooked breakfast about 10am, now its fend for yourself day or starve!

Thank god for that MissChief

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T-minus 25 minutes and counting. Am sure as hell opening the wine soon...

All those who have valiantly cooked a roast dinner today deserve to be thoroughly pampered afterwards by the recipients of the meal!

Oh I agree I agree

im not cooking today sod that!!!!!!!!! already nearly ready to pass out without making it 100x worse lol might just do ham salad baguettes