Do you always have a roast dinner on a Sunday?

[marthamoo]

Was thinking of this while cooking dinner today. When I was a child, we had a roast every Sunday, come Hell or high water. Dh's parents still do (even though there are just the two of them at home now).

We don't btw, I made fish pie for dinner today, and very nice it was too.

no...usually spag bol on a sunday night for some reason (comfort food).

No, very very rarely. I don't eat meat anyway so a roast seems pointless for just Dh and 2yo DD. Only time we have a Sunday roast is if we go for a carvery/meal that day. Sometimes one of our parents may cook one when we go round, but even they don't do roasts on Sundays much.

As a child both me and DH had Sunday roasts.

Today we were visiting both sets of parents:

Lunch at my mums - shared a spinach pizza and garlic bread, followied by ice cream.

Dinner at PILs - sausage, mash and veg, followed by homemade cake (FILs birthday).

My carving of a chicken tends to be more of the slice some bits off then hack at the wings and legs, spook, I wouldn't worry - still tastes just as good!

We do a roast almost every week - today it was roast beef.
Mind you dh usually cooks it - and yes he is a dab hand with the Yorkshire puddings as well

It's something of a ritual family meal for us, as we don't usually eat with the kids in the week.

We only have a Roast dinner on Christmas day. I don't have the time or the inclination to make one every Sunday. And Dh works on a Sunday anyway to there isn't any point making it just for dd and I.

We always had a roast dinner on Sundays when I grew up. And for some reason on the weekends we had our hot meal at lunchtime and sandwiches for tea.

My girls hardly eat any meat, but once in a while I'll do a roast chicken (with onion gravy...yum) just because I love it. My (American) in-laws love roast beef and yorkshire pudding, so I make that for them sometimes.

I get a cooking magazine that I love that tests lots of different recipes for a particular dish and ends up with the ultimate recipe. Everything I've ever made from this mag has been good. Anyway they had a roast beef and yorkshire pudding recipe once and I invited some friends over for dinner. It took all day to prepare (involved roasting oxtail to make the stock for the gravy, among other things), and the roast cost me $100 at the butcher, but it was SO good.

I just ate my dinner. Why am I hungry?...

not always - but quite a lot - the kids love it and it is a good thing to pack up and send off to the childminder on Monday (the only day they go). Otherwise we often have a casserole or stew. We never have it at lunchtime unless someone is visiting and needs to get home early.

Most sundays in the winter, as both kids (and me and Dh) love it. Ds1 (2.8) cleared his plate yesterday - though I think he thought the roast parsnip was a potato . I find it quite easy to cook, as its only at the end that it gets hectic, so we can play while it cooks.
We usually have it in the evenings, but yesterday it was lunchtime as we were going out for the afternoon.
I use the left over meat the next day and it also gives ds2 meals for a few days from the all the rest of the leftovers.

I try to once a week but only because I LOVE roast potatoes with a passion that can startle. And I always do far too many so that I can have some cold for breakfast the next day.

DH is getting ok at roasts but can only do the meat as the veg is too complicated - why??

Am I strange we often do this, usually only chicken though, because I think it is an easy dinner!!! I am veggie so I do roast butternut squash and mushrooms/courgettes etc. Roast potatoes, carrots/broccoli and a chicken. It is the one meal I can gaurentee the whole family eat and love, and then the left over chicken makes sandwiches for dd1 at school too!!

Kateandthegirls - what cooking mag is it that gives those recipes? I cook so seldom that I'd love to have access to recipes the experts have tried and tested so that results will be fabulous!

Earlybird, it's Cook's Illustrated.

we have roast chicken almost every week, and roast lamb pretty often. Occasionally pork if there's nice stuff in the farm shop, but the kids like that less. Its easy to do (once its in you can forget about it) and we all love it, and there's usually enough left for kids meals the next day too.

I went to the grocery store this morning and bought a chicken. Roast chicken tonight!

Pizza today because I am feeling v lazy.

Our big meal is Friday night dinner but we are flirting with getting more kosher so I am tending to go for vegetarian or fish that night so that we can have yogurt and white coffee afterwards.

Quite often do a roast chicken for Monday night as it requires no thought whatsoever - roast chicken, roast veg in the same pan, salad, baked potatoes, sorted. Then cold chicken on Tuesday, and chicken stock for a lentil stew on Wednesday.

Have never made Yorkshire pudding but do like real gravy (not with oxtail though!) and when I was a kid the thing I loved most was bread sauce with masses of onion.

Well most sundays yes, but if we fancy a change then we have pizza or something.

We don't have sunday lunch until tea time really as we don't eat breakfast until about 10am on sundays so no one would be hungry at lunchtime.