What's your favourite roast dinner?

As this is 'Gransnet' i.e. older people, why hasn't been mentioned yet that Yorkshire Puddings are traditionally served as the first course, NOT on the plate with the meat, potatoes and what are called 'all the trimmings'. Doesn't anyone else remember this?

This was what I grew up with. Yorkshire Puddings were always on the plate first, either with onion gravy or with chopped lettuce in vinegar. No need for a clean plate, the next course i.e. meat, veg etc could go on the same plate. And no 'sweet' course to follow.

This all follows from the 'poverty' years when a joint of meat had to last the week and Yorkshire Puddings were meant to fill you up.

As for us, just the 2 of us, we never - or rarely - have a 'roast dinner'. We eat a lot less than we used to when we were more active. I don't go anywhere to eat out where Yorkshire puddings are served on the plate with meat, veg, potatoes - it's enough to put me off eating anything.

Margrete - you've reminded me, my Granny, who came from York, made delicious Yorkshire Puddings, but she served them for a dessert, with golden syrup poured over.

TriciaF, yes, if any were left over they'd be eaten later, with jam. I bet your Granny from York never put them on the plate along with the meat and 'trimmings'. BTW I too was born in York.

Any that I haven't had to cook.
One man's roast dinner is another woman's Saturday evening and Sunday morning.

Oh I love leftover yorkshires with golden syrup poured over.

Actually I love just about anything with hot golden syrup poured over. White rice is delicious with it.

margrete all the best pubs serve a Yorkshire with all their roasts. Or they do round here anyway.

I thought the days of having the Yorkshire pudding first, to partly fill you up were over by the time I was born in 1941. But then, I am a southerner.

I like beef best, but it has to be beef I have cooked myself. Never found a pub with a chef that could serve tender beef. Not even the ones near me where royalty have been known to visit. Lamb and pork are always fine.

And so many pubs don't cook their veg soft enough. Hate hard carrots and green beans.

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jinglbellsfrocks, it may be an outdated idea, but for me, it's traditional and that's the way I like it. I remember my late mother-in-law in 1957 serving up what looked like a gargantuan meal all on one plate. That was in Dartford, Kent, and she was extremely miffed to find that I just couldn't face it all. She thought she was doing something great by including YPs, but putting them all on the plate together with 2 or 3 veg, potatoes cooked different ways, the whole lot, just turned my stomach to look at and I just couldn't face it. And that's the way it has always been, I'm afraid. Everything on one plate is just toooooo much. I'd rather they left the YPs out altogether than try to say 'it's traditional' because it just isn't.