Sunday roast is it still eaten

It takes me about an hour to cook a small joint, using fresh veg, I prep the veg and cook them while the joint is cooking, using frozen veg out of season it’s even easier.

My wife does not get inspired by routine cooking, yesterday she came in with a basket of windfalls to make Apple, Rosemary and Mint Jelly to give as Christmas presents, every one gets a homemade hamper.

not this time of year, in the colder months.

It’s not the joint itself that takes up the time, as it can be left to look after itself, it’s all the other stuff - prepping veg, mashing potatoes, making & cooking roasties and yorkies, making the gravy from the roast juices and ensuring it’s all timed correctly. Then there's all the washing up - roasting dishes, Yorkshire pudding pans, veg pans, etc, etc. It’s quite labour intensive for just 2 of us, so that’s why it’s a rare treat.

My son often comes to dinner on Sundays, and I sometimes do a roast which we both love. I don't necessarily buy a joint, just chicken breast or something. It's really quite an easy meal to cook.

A roast does not involve a lot of cooking . We had roast lamb to-day it was in the oven at 1 pm until 5 pm cooked long and slow . It was a half leg I bought before Christmas when Tesco had them half price . I always freeze what is left as I do not like the same meat two days running . DH has 3 portions frozen for some other day as he loves lamb and I can choose something else .

Roasts yes, not necessarily on a Sunday though. We tend to do a roast when our gchn visit as they love them, and I love the trimmings!

A roast for just us will see us through most of the week one way or another so it’s economical too, once the initial long cook is done. Sometimes I slice up left over meat and freeze it interleaved with greaseproof paper, so that’s useful as a standby.

Well, as I said upthread, there would be plenty of posters coming along to say they have a Sunday roast - and that’s great 😁. Personally, though, a Sunday roast is a rarity. We enjoy it when we do have one, but I can count on one hand how many we have during the year, so perhaps that’s why they seem much more enjoyable for me, as they’re not an every week occurrence and expectation. Today, for example, we had a vegetable risotto, and very tasty it was, too.
Quite often, in the past, when I tried to do a regular Sunday roast, I found that after spending all the time in the kitchen getting it ready, I was no longer hungry, and ate hardly any of it, so then we decided that quick and easy meals were the answer, and, in the winter months, slow cooked stews, etc, which look after themselves, smell delicious as they’re cooking, need little attention by me as they are cooking and so get my taste and hunger buds buzzing 😂😂.

My husband loved a roast on a Sunday but since he died two years ago I don’t do one for myself.
Both my children never cook roasts on a Sunday but love to come to me for one, which they do every 4-6 weeks
Today they all came for roast pork, stuffing, red cabbage, carrots, green beans and roast potatoes. I took my granddaughter blackberry picking last week and she was very proud to tell everyone when I brought out the apple and blackberry crumble that she picked the blackberries.
I am exhausted now, will go to bed soon!!

I think it's easier to cook a roast than veggie meals for me, no recipe to follow. Roast chicken, potatoes courgettes peas cabbage & gravy for us today. Raspberry crumble for pud. Don't do it every weekend, as it does take longer with the cooking time & there's a lot of washing up (I don't put the suacepans & roasting pans in the dishwasher). But I do like to make an effort for dinner on sunday.

We still have a roast most Sundays during Spring, Autumn and Winter. Our two sons rarely have them. To us, it’s one of the easiest meals to cook.

Roast Beef , runner beans, carrots, roast potatoes and shallots.
And gravy.
Down the hatch a few hours ago.

I do roast dinners and so does Mum sometimes, so it’s either all round to ours or hers.I think about once a month, not every week.
Most pubs do reasonable ones and are always busy so most people seem to like them.

We have family roasts from October thru to around May...I'm 59 now ...and its not often we host these days....far more likely to be .my DD or my DS....who are far more into roast dinners than me

I love a Sunday roast but rarely do one since widowed. My favourite is roast rib of beef, medium rare, with lots of melting marbled fat. Crispy, fluffy roast potatoes, roast parsnips, mashed swede with lots of butter and white pepper, brussels sprouts and curly kale.

For pudding I love gooseberry or rhubarb crumble, if in season, served with a good dollop of West Country clotted cream.

My second choice would be a good free range, corn fed chicken with sage and onion stuffing and bread sauce served with savoy cabbage or spring greens and mashed swede again.

Second pudding choice would be Cheddar strawberries, a sprinkling of sugar and clotted cream.

Yum. Now I'm hungry.

Pubs, hotels and restaurants always have a Sunday roast dinner. They're in business so know that it's a very popular thing to feature for young and old. If we're out I often choose the roast. Not much point going to all that trouble just for two. Also nice to get slices from a really big joint rather than a titchy one like I'd buy for just us.
Had a beautiful roast dinner today in Lower Largo. Lashings of tender juicy lamb with great roast spuds, cauliflower, broccoli, red cabbage and wonderful rich gravy! Seriously yummy.

We all love roast dinners and have them often, normally on a Sunday, and much more so in the winter.

I hardly ever do one and when I do it’s what I call a mini roast. The last one was a month ago and I only did it because DDwas coming for a sleepover.

Roast beef in the oven as I type.

Just eaten a roast,pork with crackling,stuffing,roast potatoes,carrots,broccoli and cauliflower and gravy made from the meat juice.

Roast chicken for us today followed by strawberries and cream. There’s a roast here most Sundays, Mr C enjoys them so much and likes to keep the tradition. We tend to buy larger joints, cook two together and then freeze in portions. Economical and makes Sunday an easy day. One son cooks a roast most weeks, the other rarely.

Personally I find most vegetarian meals fiddly and time consuming, but each to their own.

I’m not super domestic. The only roast dinner I’ve ever cooked was at Christmas. Too time consuming and messy. I hated roast dinners as a child, especially watery over cooked vegetables.

I prefer having friends around for informal meals, often vegetarian.

We have a roast fairly often in the autumn abd winter. It is so easy to do.

We love our roast dinners but rarely have them at the weekends now unless we have company. We had one on Thursday as we picked up a nice piece of lamb on Wednesday that had been reduced. Next weekend DS2 and family are visiting for a few days so I we'll do one then.

My DD is more likely to cook a roast than myself tbh, if I do it is usually in the colder weather and we always have our main meal in the evening.
In my area a lot of places seem to do a roaring trade on takeaway Sunday lunch, they seem to be as popular as going out for Sunday lunch.
So obviously people still enjoy eating it if not the actual cooking of it.