Share your Sunday Roast Rituals with Aunt Bessie's - chance to win £300 NOW CLOSED

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The team at Aunt Bessie's would love to know all about your Sunday Roast Rituals - what makes a roast dinner go down well in your house? What's the key tip, trick, ingredient or essential item which makes that meal particularly successful? Does your family always sit down at the table? Is Sunday the one day you always insist on everyone being home to eat? And what do you dish up for vegetarians or anyone with specific dietary needs? Do you have roast potatoes even when it's not a Sunday?

Aunt Bessie's say "Aunt Bessie’s recognises how difficult it is these days to get the family together - that’s why mealtimes, and particularly the Sunday Roast, are so important. We’re proud to announce that our Homestyle roast potatoes are Mumsnet Rated*, following testing by members of the site. So whether you whip them out for the Sunday Roast or use them to spice up a meal during the week, give Aunt Bessie’s roasties a try today and see how long you can keep the kids at the table!"

Add your ritual or tip for a great Sunday Roast below and you will be entered into a prize draw where one person will win a £300 Love2Shop voucher.

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*234 Mumsnet testers tried Aunt Bessie's Homestyle frozen roast potatoes - March 2016. 80% would buy again and 85% would recommend them.

I make stuffing balls once a month and people are allowed one each and the rest are frozen for other weeks. Everyone knows it is a one per person rule!

We always have a hot pudding after a roast, never any other time. Currently it is always apple crumble as my children adore it!

I like to buy a bigger joint and make a lot of gravy and too many roast potatoes
I slice the leftover meat and next day, heat it up in leftover gravy - poss with Yorkshire’s or roast potatoes or bubble and squeak
Chicken is made into chicken noodle soup/ stewy thing for leftovers - delicious- boiling carcass etc - or coronation chicken if it’s hot weather
Roast dinners don’t stop over the summer
Monday is my busiest day so it’s lovely to come home to simple stuff

Yorkshire Puddings (home made!) whatever the roast - be it beef, pork, lamb or chicken!

I always slow cook my meat, then use the juices to make gravy. If I'm doing pork, I'll add cider to the slow cooker. Makes for the most delicious gravy. I also add a pinch of sugar and some pepper to my yorkshires.

We don't cook meat juice gravy so our secret weapon is Marmite! A dollop of that, generous twist of black pepper and sometimes a glug of red really makes it work.

I always use goose fat for roasting potatoes and parsnips as it really makes a difference to flavour and colour, and I always make gravy with the meat juices from the roast.

I used to make my own Yorkies but nobody seems to have noticed that I now dish up Aunt Bessie's ... and I'm not about to own up!

Always make enough of everything on Sunday especially roast potatoes and Yorkshire Puddings so that DH can take a roast dinner for lunch to work on Monday.

He gets many envious looks when warming up dinner (ooh that smells lovely) and then tucking in to a roast whilst colleagues are eating meal deal or packed lunch from home

The mist important thing is that someone other than myself is booking it! I despise cooking a Sunday roast, gate it to bits. As long as someone is doing then I am happy. A care not a jot if it is from scratch or frozen, I am just pleased that someone is feeding me!

Argh, my iPad changes words that are correct to ones that are not, it should be: *most important not mist
*cooking it not booking
*hate it not gate

😤 bloody autocorrect

Cheese sauce! Not a proper roast dinner without cheese sauce in our house and covering the veg in it helps get the kids eating!

Make your roasties with parboiled potato, sprinkle with flour, drizzle with olive oil and stir/roughen the surface of the potatoes with a fork before placing in the oven. Then bosh! Great potatoes which will come out nice and crispy! Make sure the gravy is flavoursome and rich, using stock from the roast beef and adding leftover Yorkshire pudding batter to thicken.

I am always completely baffled why cauliflower cheese/cheese sauce is seen as an ideal accompaniment with a Sunday roast! Since when does cheese sauce and gravy go well together? My heart sinks whenever I see it!!!

I don’t ever seem to ever have left over roast potatoes. No matter how many I do.

I was brought up with the mantra Roast on Sunday, cold on Monday and follow this most weeks. So we have a roast dinner with all the trimmings, including Yorkshire’s, crispy roast potatoes, thick gravy 2 or 3 different veg plus sauces. I usually make a vegetarian option too and we sit down as a family, often with guests too.

Then on Monday we have an easy dinner of cold meat / veggie dish with pickles, mash or Jacket potatoes. We love both meals and have different meats and vegetables so we have lots of variety.

Sunday roast is the meal i insist we all sit together at the table for, yorkshire puds are a must and no gadgets or headphones at the table! Mint and apple sauce regardless of what meat we have

I always prepare extra of everything so I have some lovely leftovers for the next day. Roast lamb, mint sauce and roast carrot sandwich, anyone?

What makes a roast is picking at bits as I dish up when no one is looking! A tiny bit of roast chicken and garlic. A crispy spud. A bit of chili and mint stuffing. Yum!

Gravy had to be gravy. Not that watered down muck! Always a joke in our house when we go to my parents that we'll take our own. A Sunday roast is the bees knees, but the gravy and all the bits of everything is the best. I have been know. To use the mint sauce spoon to scoop up the last bit!

There's no such thing as too many roasties, so I always make a few extra, chef's privilege and all that.

I always make our Sunday roast gravy with the vegetable water for extra taste and extra goodness.
I also buy a larger chicken than needed so we can have roast chicken sandwiches the following day.

Roast dinner is a distraction free meal in our house. No radio or phones. we usually have family guests over. Always a big chicken then I use left overs for curry or risotto on day 2 and boil the bones n scraggly bits to make soup. Thick gravy, lots of veggies and something crumbly for pud. Our favourite meal of the week.

Using garlic oil to give my roasties a little bit of flavour yummy 🙂

We may have a Roast during the week but what is different on a Sunday is that we will have Yorkshire Puddings. Have to make it a bit different! My vegan daughter will have lots of mediterranean style roasted veg and potatoes on a Sunday

Sunday is the one evening we all try to eat together.
In addition roast a decent sized chicken and make sure you make extra stuffing for sandwiches the next day, almost as good as the roast its self.

My great tip is to have it at the pub where someone else cooks and cleans up afterwards!

Roast Potatoes are always one of the most important parts of making a great roast and the way to get them crispy and tasty is to boil them for two minutes then drain in a colander and rough them up a bit by shaking the colander back and forth a few times to fluff up the outsides. Sprinkle with flour before putting on a baking tray with hot fat on, then roasting as normal