Sunday Lunch - ideas please!!!

[Soxwasher]

I've got 4 kids, 3 teenagers and 3 Mums for Sundy lunch - DH and other H's are away on walking weekend. I'm planning to do a traditional lunch ie roast meat, potatoes, cauliflour cheese and veg - but I am bored of doing just that - any ideas on how I can make it more exciting!!!!!!

Ohhh YES - great reciepe is Gary Rhodes winter cooking book, hate him normally! - Horseraddish and seville dumplings with roast beef.
Put leeks and carrots in with cauli-cheese and broccoli as well.
Roast little new pototoes with the other potatoes (sprinkle ground sea salt over them), oh and sweet potatoes are good par boiled & roasted too.
Swede, carrot and parsnip boiled mashed together and mixed with black pepper, butter and horesraddish.

Sorry fast typing and not thinking or previewing - v bad.

hi soxwasher, i plan to try this next time we have a roast. all done with the meat, couldn't be easier. braised red cabbage would also go well with something like pork.

or how about roast lamb with cous cous or a boeuf bourgignonne (delia has a good recipe for this on her site) with mashed potato and puree of mixed swede, carrot and parsnip? or game is in season if that's your thing...

or you could do a huge lasagna or chilli... with salad & garlic bread...

oh spelling gah!

Oh yeah - DP and I quite often do roasted veg with our sunday joint. Had it last Sunday in fact.

Courgettes sliced and then shallow fried in olive oil for fourty minutes. When they are "soggy" you mash them up with garlic, lemon juice, and a bit chilli flakes. It is gorgeous. I use it as a pate on chiabatta bread as a starter.
Also leeks sliced length ways an put on a gridle, until they get blackened lines are good with a roast, you can do loads and it only takes ten minutes
Stick palma ham and tarragon under the skin of your chicken, that makes it taste a bit different.
Or if your worried about the quantity of people why not something simple like tons of baked potatoes and a pot of chilli

Or a fondue they are great!

Thats great - thanks - all sounds fantastic! I'm definately gonna try something new thanks everyone

hi, just found this on bbc food. sounds yummy!

back to work now, bk, back to work now.

Huge leg of lamb. Cut holes all over, shove your finger in to make them a bit bigger then stuff with slices of lemon peel and a paste of roughly chopped garlic, rosemary and olive oil.

Serve with baby new potatoes sprinkled with sea salt and plently of olive oil, and bk's roast winter veggies

i know you're back with your nose to the grindstone BK - but that sounds fab........ just printed it off, yuummmmm. right I must do some work now too, or is there any point - am I going to gt much done now on a Friday afernoon - is it worth it...... will ponder on this - may be back, if not hre somewhere else!See I havn't done a lot today granted - not as much as I could - but what I have done was good - iykwim!!!!

Soxwasher, you could make up a butter, garlic, lemon juice and herb mix and put it under the skin of the chicken. Lift the skin at the legs and stuff the mixture in between the breast and the skin without breaking the skin. Put a lemon inside the chicken too and cook it breast down for the first 40 mins or so, then turn it over. You'll get tender succulent breast meat and delicious skin. Agree with the roasted veg idea too, really easy and you can just leave them to cook, basting occassionally. Make a huge mound though, they can shrink to such a small pile if you don't do enough IME. You could do roast potatoes in their skins too if you wanted, healthy and easier. They could still be cut so you get the same size potatoes and you could roast them with olive oil, sea salt and rosemary. Oooh, want to eat now!