Does anybody bother cooking a 'proper' Sunday roast dinner anymore?

[Midnightrider]

I have my in-laws coming tomorrow, and I've been decorating all week, we've just had the loft converted and I don't want to spend half the day in the kitchen tomorrow - I've had enough this week, and it's back to work Monday

[boxtops]

No, we don't, we have what we feel like. It's not unknown for us to have pasta on a Sunday.

[nannybooby]

yep I do ,though sometimes we have it on a Monday if we are out and about on Sunday,my best buddy always cooks one too her boys go home especially for it.

[pusskin]

I only do a roastie if close family are coming to dinner.
If its a lovely day, I'd rather go out some where and have a quick meal when we come in --anything goes

[Prudie]

Yes regularly for 2. With frozen roasties, yorkshires, parsnips etc etc it really is no effort these days (if you're happy to use the shortcuts that many couldn't distinguish anyway)

[thebadger]

half a day in the kitchen? get a shoulder jouint and leave it to roast for a few hours then get the inlaws to wash up

[webbo3]

Only when the weather gets colder, tomorrow im doing slow roast shoulder of lam with roasters done in goose fat, Broccoli (i wasn't swearing), honey roast parsnips and carrots and a nice bottle of Rioja.


Dave.

[Jemisa]

Yes I do, but - near us is a 'Toby Pub' and they've started doing Sunday Roast take-aways & they're excellant, so I'll be cutting down now & letting 'Toby' do it.
Give it a go...

jem

[Midnightrider]

it's just me being idle really -I have a leg of lamb in the freezer, I'll do that. I'd have been happy with something like pasta, but my f-i-l is coeliac, and he has an ulcer so that's another reason why we don't got out to eat, there's so much he can't have.

[B00]

Yes, every Sunday, I'd be devastated if I didn't. It's not really an effort to make one is it? Afterall, most meats you just bung in the oven, no faffing involved.

[Maydup]

We cook a roast in the deepest darkest days of winter when there's nothing much to get out for. It's a treat and warms our hearts as well as our home. But I'm not a great fan of eating heavily at lunchtime and prefer to eat it later in the day.

Otherwise we like to go out on a Sunday or spend time in the garden. We'll have a snack for lunch and have an evening meal as we would any other day.

If you have visitors tomorrow I assume they're expecting a cooked lunch. If not don't bother and offer them a buffet lunch.

[Midnightrider]

I just wanted a rest, I've been on the go all last week, painting, sanding, repainting, clearing up the mess from the Velux windows being put in, then the carpet being laid, then fixing up the blinds and making up the flat pack units, then I had a cable and phone extention put in, and wall lights put in. by the time I've done dinner, cleared away, put the dining room straight it'll be bath and bed time then work - I took the week off to have a rest!!

[B00]

Can't you cancel the in laws coming then?

[cazzz1975]

I would cancel the in laws, sounds like you have done enough and need a day off.

[NoMercy]

Yes, I cooked one last week. We ended up having jg on Monday instead of Sunday.

I would seize any opportunity to cook a full roast.

[hc4361]

Take away roast dinner!

[fliptheswitch]

My Mum doesn't do them any more... Much to the annoyance of my sister! I love a nice Sunday lunch, but definitely enjoy it more when someone else does the cooking. Preferably a chef. In a pub. :-) If you're shattered, don't do it. Tell them to come round after lunch.

[Midnightrider]

Well you see they've been on holiday in the lake district, and will 'drop into us' on the way back home, they live in Kent, and we don't see them that often

[Maydup]

Just call them and explain that you're in the middle of decorating and fitting out the loft convertion. Tell them they're still welcome to come but it'll be cheese rolls and a cuppa tea, otherwise they could reschedule to another weekend.

[cazzz1975]

well dropping in doesnt constitute a cooked dinner, how about a few drinkies and nibbles?