Church goers... roast lunch??

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Not sure if this is the right topic to post in but wanted to ask church goers... do you have a roast lunch on Sunday? How do people get a joint and potatoes all cooked and ready for when they get home from church? I want to try but scared it will burn 😬 Do you just put it on very low heat?

Not a particularly regular churchgoer but a Sunday morninv mini-rugby family here! We usually just do the roast when we get home - often eat sometime between 4&6.

Tend to prep everything I possibly can Saturday evening and then start cooking the whole lot as soon as I'm home from church (usually by 11.45ish?!)
Lunch can be ready by 1.30/2 if it needs to be, i time things according to who I might have joining us....
If not we have early dinner late afternoon?
Hope this helps

I don't tend to, as dh, and often the dc are out very often on a Sunday, but, growing up, without fail we had a roast dinner after Church on a Sunday.
Veg prepared and all ready before (my Mum used to do it before we went out, but, for me, I'd do it the night before as I'm not a morening person). Joint in, on a low temperature.
Nowadays, I'd put it in the slow cooker, tbh, but we didn't have one when I was growing up.
OR
If you have an electric oven, then just put it on a timer, to come on at the right time.

Mass was at 9 or latest 10 so eating at 2 was fine.

We do sometimes if the children or other visitors are at home.
I choose a slow cooked joint such as pork with crackling or gammon that can be pre poached then roasted in the low oven.
Other things I tend to pre prepare and put in as soon as we get home. I part pre roast potatoes. I use homemade Yorkshire puddings from the freezer. Then I have stuffing made ready and same for cauliflower cheese. Carrots go in beside the potatoes when they are finishing off.
Green veg doesn’t take long. Sauces and gravy done in advance.

Gas ovens have timers too! Nothing beats the smell of coming in from church to a roast chicken gently finishing off! Parboil then part roast the potatoes then they hardly take any time too.

I don't do it every week but if I do I put the meat in the slow cooker on high and have the veg prepped/Yorkshire batter ready before church. As soon as we get back the oven goes on high and the pans on to boil. We can eat by 1.30 and don't get back from church until about 12.30.
Or we have it on Sunday evening instead.

The number of times we didn’t have a roast on a Sunday after church growing up can be counted on my fingers... possibly even my thumbs. I do remember staying at someone’s house as a family when I would have been about four and in disbelief that they had chips on a Sunday!

However it put me off roasts for a long time.

Meat would be on a timer. Vegetables “parboiled” (so basically carrots would boil rapidly at breakfast and then be turned off, left to stew in their juices for the next three hours until there was no flavour left. See also cabbage). Potatoes were cooked in the morning, coated in cold oil, and whacked in once we came home from church. Most recently (as in within the past two years) I caught mum putting frozen peas in the pan before church so they’d be ready when she came back. The lengths farmers and freezer companies go to to get fresh to frozen peas in a couple of hours all undone by the intentions of “getting things done”.

This was all exacerbated by the fact that Sunday post-church-pre-lunch was the one time a week my mum always rang her parents. So we’d have chaos going on in the kitchen and a phone call too.

Nowadays I’d...

Put the timer on for a joint or use a slow cooker...

Prep the veg and put it all in when I got back.

I rarely go to church but when I do I handily married an atheist who cooks eg Christmas lunch!

Service is at 9.15 so no problems here, but otherwise we'd eat it for our evening meal.

Agree with lots of the above.

Something I always do (and for Christmas lunch as well) is get the mashed potatoes done and ready in a microwavable dish.

They microwave really quickly, taste fine and you don't have the nasty starchy saucepan to wash after the meal.

Our church starts early (9.30) so not a problem here, we're home for 11 and if we're having a roast dinner we'd usually have it later anyway so I'd start it around dinner time.

And a double oven helps.
So the meat can be cooking in a moderate oven, while the other on can be put on high when you get back for roast vegetables and Yorkshire puddings.

A council of perfection, I realise.

Certainly a slow cooker for the meat seems a good idea, then the oven could be at a high heat.

In-laws used to swear by a Remoska (sp?) for roast potatoes.
In a good way, not in a "Bloody useless Remoska!" way.

Our service isn’t until 11, meat goes in before we leave and veg ready to go straight on when we get back.

If we have a roast we have it in the evening.

we have timer on oven and run foil over potatoes an hd then crisp them up when we get home

Parboil potatoes when cooking on Saturday night, coat with oil than put in tray, cover with foil and put in fridge then when you get home from Church, put them in the oven and you are only 45 mins away from serving up.

Put meat in on low before leaving for church.

My family do! Since going to university I haven’t had one in ages, though.

We just had dinner later.

We do. Roast chicken normally but have it at about 2

Hot meal in the evening. We don't get back from church until noon.

We do have a roast or special meal each Sunday, but we have it between 5-6.

We have a light, easy lunch after church, the afternoon is the. Spent cooking,laundering uniforms and preparing for the week ahead.

I love Sundays.

When DCs were little, I used to take them to McDonalds after church as I couldn't get a roast plus veggies cooked as well as get all 4 of them up, dressed & off to church on time. We had our Sunday roast later in the day.

Growing up we always had our roast on Saturday evening and then fasted until we returned from church on a Sunday morning (11am service so home by 12:15-12:30 after mum finished chatting to all her mates). Mum then cooked sausages, bacon and eggs to be eaten at about 1pm. We were starving.

These days I cook our Sunday roast as an evening meal.

We put the meat and potatoes in on 180° when we leave about 9.50 and it is fine. We eat about 1.30. Been doing it most weeks for about 45 years. If it is beef we put it in water in a casserole dish. Makes lovely gravy.

We usually have our roast at teatime - around 6. Church is 11 and our small church always provides a snack lunch after the service. So that gives us time later on. Quite often put gammon in the slow cooker before we leave for church though.