Sunday Roast Dinners, do you have them?

[AdamD]

It's always been a tradition in my own family, on my mothers and fathers side, to have a roast dinner on a Sunday

I tend to go for pork, beef, gammon and very rarely, lamb.

Does anyone else have that same tradition? If so, what's your idea of a perfect roast dinner?

I tend to use the quick/cheating route, I buy a joint from Tesco when I do my monthly shop, freeze it, then get it out 2 days prior to defrost.

I usually have yorkshire pudding, stuffing, roast potatoes, tinned processed peas and baby carrots, with beef or pork flavoured gravy (depending on the meat)

Roast potatoes are frozen ones, usually aunt bessie, mccoys or tesco's finest.

Stuffing is the sage and onion one

Gravy is Bisto's best flavoured stuff.

My dad prefers home grown veg, but I have crappy taste buds, so most food tastes horrible to me, especially fresh veg

[denphone]

l have roast dinners but l don't have them much on a Sunday as its easier to do a roast in the week but my favourite roasts has to be roast beef and roast chicken.

[superbiatch]

Roast dinner is my favourite meal and generally have one most Sundays. Favourite meats are chicken or lamb and I have a yorkshire pudding no matter what meat

Today however I broke tradition as i'm on a healthy eating plan so keeping the fat down. I had steak with onions and mushrooms done in the slow cooker, with boiled minature new potatoes and mixed veg. Very nice it was too!

[Sirius]

Just about to have a full roast dinner whilst watching Leeds V Catalan Dragons on Sky sports HD2

[LondonRoad]

It's my favourite. My 2 girls are fussy eaters but they both enjoy their Sunday Roasts - without the veggies unfortunately.

I usually do the cooking but we're just about to head out for our Sunday dinner because it was my better half's birthday yesterday.

[AdamD]

Heh, I broke with the tradition of only having mint sauce on Lamb, I have it with every roast now, gives a nice taste to everything :P

[Halcyon]

I try and have a roast dinner every sunday. I quite like beef and chicken or pork.
I'm not keen on lamb.

It has to have parsnips, I love those, and always yorkshire puddings.
I normally use Bisto gravy mixed with a bit of cranberry jelly.

[AdamD]

Originally Posted by LondonRoad

It's my favourite. My 2 girls are fussy eaters but they both enjoy their Sunday Roasts - without the veggies unfortunately.

I remember the days of childhood, when I was forced to eat stuff I didn't like, I'm so glad those days are behind me.

[denphone]

All this talk of roast is making me peckish.

[AdamD]

Got some spare roast pork in the fridge, if you want some, denphone :P

[Kymmy]

Originally Posted by AdamD

Heh, I broke with the tradition of only having mint sauce on Lamb, I have it with every roast now, gives a nice taste to everything :P

As a change try mint jelly

[denphone]

Originally Posted by AdamD

Got some spare roast pork in the fridge, if you want some, denphone :P

Yummy yummy.

[Saaf_laandon_mo]

If we're having roast I do a shoulder of lamb. The night before I cover it in salt and leave it in the fridge over night. The nxt day I wash all the salt off, cuts some thick onion rings. I cover the baking tray with the onion rings and garlic cloves, rub the lamb in olive oil and rosemary, and then put that on top of the onions. Roast for between 4.5 and 5-5.5 hours at 160 degrees uncovered.
It comes out sooooo tender, flakey and melt in the mouth. The salt penerates the meat over night and adds to it.
The onions find their way into the gravy, and my wife makes the yorkshires from scratch.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm my mouth is watering now!

[Halcyon]

Now I'm not a fan of lamb but after your description of how you cook it, I think I'd like that!

[Saaf_laandon_mo]

I got the recipe from Something for the weekend. I use different rubs,using a variety of ingredients including cinnamon, garam masala, 5 spice, sea salt, chilli flakes, tandoori rub etc etc etc but the recipe above is my favourite way of doing it.