The good old sunday roast.

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Always been a traditional British family meal on a Sunday but It's never been as unpopular as it is nowadays. I think it's because of all the choices we have of world foods and the convenience and laziness of people deciding to get a takeaway instead of cooking themselves. I was once so used to having a Sunday roast almost every week but rarely bother nowadays due to my kids being grown up and me living alone, i can't be bothered cooking a roast for one.

Is a Sunday roast still tradition to you, has it ever been. Do you cook your own or eat out, and what's your favourite meat, or veg option? I think I'll go out to eat later, maybe The Fairfield Arms on Ashton Old Road as it's good quality and decent value.

 

[JASR]

Roasts, love 'em, as do my kids (17+ now..).

I normally end up doing it all, other than carving (not allowed to wield sharp implements...)

Favourite's in order of taste:
Pork belly + crackling
Lamb shoulder - various recipes
Beef with yorkshire's
Chicken - various recipes

Turkey and Goose at Christmas.

Followed by crumbles.

Chicken (unknown recipe), and gooseberry and apple crumble today - Father's day, doing nothing :-)

 

[yeseye]

Roasts, love 'em, as do my kids (17+ now..).

I normally end up doing it all, other than carving (not allowed to wield sharp implements...)

Favourite's in order of taste:
Pork belly + crackling
Lamb shoulder - various recipes
Beef with yorkshire's
Chicken - various recipes

Turkey and Goose at Christmas.

Followed by crumbles.

Chicken (unknown recipe), and gooseberry and apple crumble today - Father's day, doing nothing :-)

You have 17 kids?

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Always been a traditional British family meal on a Sunday but It's never been as unpopular as it is nowadays. I think it's because of all the choices we have of world foods and the convenience and laziness of people deciding to get a takeaway instead of cooking themselves. I was once so used to having a Sunday roast almost every week but rarely bother nowadays due to my kids being grown up and me living alone, i can't be bothered cooking a roast for one.

Is a Sunday roast still tradition to you, has it ever been. Do you cook your own or eat out, and what's your favourite meat, or veg option? I think I'll go out to eat later, maybe The Fairfield Arms on Ashton Old Road as it's good quality and decent value.

Did you manage to get that minimum wage carer to suck you off mate?

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Always, always had a Sunday roast as a child. My father unrepentantly demanded it (he'd been spoilt rotten by his mother, my grandmother – she was a superb cook tbf, her Yorkshire was nectar of the gods), and my mother just had to deliver! And she did, too. Made up for it in the week though (when he wasn't around) by slinging Findus fish fingers in the frying pan, maybe accompanied by more or less thawed out Findus spinach. Of all the repulsive frozen foods of the sixties, spinach must have been the worst. I used to watch Popeye on television, and even as a child, I'd think, just who are they trying to kid?
Frozen foods have come on by leaps and bounds, though. You people have Iceland, do you not? I have Picard (France), and their products are good, if a bit pricey.
Nothing beats a roast, though. Shame I don't have a wife to order around to cook it.
And now, from a very great song from the sixties: "I like my football, on a Saturday, roast beef on Sunday, 's alright."

 

[jimharri]

You have 17 kids?

When there's no football, a bloke's got to kill the time somehow. There's fuck all on the telly. Mind you, according to my mate, that will only take care of 5 or 10 minutes.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I don't do a Sunday roast, but I regularly do a few roasties, a bit of veg and a chicken leg for myself. Stick it in the oven and forget about it for an hour. It's the washing up that's the pain in the arse, not the cooking.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

When there's no football, a bloke's got to kill the time somehow. There's fuck all on the telly. Mind you, according to my mate, that will only take care of 5 or 10 minutes.

On delicate posts of this nature, I notice that you're always quoting your mate, jh. He is a fount of knowledge.

 

[JASR]

You have 17 kids?

Well no, they become adults at 18, so only 16

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Always been a traditional British family meal on a Sunday but It's never been as unpopular as it is nowadays. I think it's because of all the choices we have of world foods and the convenience and laziness of people deciding to get a takeaway instead of cooking themselves. I was once so used to having a Sunday roast almost every week but rarely bother nowadays due to my kids being grown up and me living alone, i can't be bothered cooking a roast for one.

Is a Sunday roast still tradition to you, has it ever been. Do you cook your own or eat out, and what's your favourite meat, or veg option? I think I'll go out to eat later, maybe The Fairfield Arms on Ashton Old Road as it's good quality and decent value.

We always have a Sunday roast from late autumn to Easter. Generally slow cooked rolled brisket or shoulder of lamb, finished off in the oven.

Then as the weather warms, we have a summer months off.

 

[its a Barm]

Unpopular not in my family my the grown up daughters always have them as do we, going middle daughter today for a full on Sunday roast with all the family can't wait.

 

[oakiecokie]

Just put the big boneless piece of pork in the oven and waiting for the fat to turn into some wonderful crackling !!!
Can`t beat a Sunday Roast but we don`t always have one as the missus does a wonderful Shepherds Pie, Tuna Bake with Pasta and an even better Tuna Bake with Thin Sliced Spuds.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Toby carvery.
Once in a while.
Unbeatable.

 

[feelymcfeel]

Not a massive fan of a roast, dont know why.

All of the ingredients are brilliant by themselves, or with ither things, but stick them all together on one plate and i just... bleh.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Toby carvery.
Once in a while.
Unbeatable.

Superb barring the generic gravy.

Gravy makes a good roast.

 

[yerwot?]

As one of five kids, the sunday roast was really looked forward to, not just for the food, but listening to Ken Dodd, Les Dawson, The Navy Lark, Round the Horn, Hancocks Half hour, and others i may have forgotten. By the time i had kids of my own and being a single parent, not only had similar programmes vanished, the kids hardly new what a radio was.
Parboiled spuds, finished off in the roasting pan with the joint, usual veg, cauliflower carrots and podded peas, sometimes roast parsnips and cheatnuts, and Bisto gravy powder with a scoop of meat juices. Hardly "regal" fare but it was nice to be together for a time, sadly too brief, and at least they carried on the tradition for a while.

 

[splinter]

Just put the big boneless piece of pork in the oven and waiting for the fat to turn into some wonderful crackling !!!
Can`t beat a Sunday Roast but we don`t always have one as the missus does a wonderful Shepherds Pie, Tuna Bake with Pasta and an even better Tuna Bake with Thin Sliced Spuds.

Bacon this morning pork tonight

 

[willipp]

Got a lovely leg of lamb roasting in the oven now for 3 hours, the smell is just immense. Roasties, broccoli, cabbage and carrot and suede and delicious home made gravy. What’s no to love. Oh yes and some Yorkshire puddings as they just go with any meat.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

odd, Les Dawson, The Navy Lark, Round the Horn, Hancocks Half hour, and others i may have forgotten

Billy Cotton Band Show."Wakey, wakey!" While my parents were off down the pub getting the Sunday lunchtime drinks in. I could just see the glowing valves through the slats in the back of the wireless (yes, deliberate choice) and I thought that glow was somehow producing the voices. Which, in a way, it was. And the delicious smell of roasting potatoes wafting through the kitchen where I was listening.

 

[booth89mcfc]

If I was ever on death Row my last meal would definitely be a Sunday roast. Or maybe a full English