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

[paddywak]

Only when we've got visitors, otherwise it's off to one of the local pubs.

[Midnightrider]

I'll cook the meat and prepare the veggies tonight, that'll be half the battle won. Nibbles is a nice idea, but with Don's ulcer and him being coeliac too, I don't keep any special flour in, we have to be careful of stuff like rusk in sausages, flour in gravy, nothing spicy, or too acidic like pickles or relishes

[razza]

Roast beef and yorkshire pudding every sunday,plus roast dinner on 4 weekdays,steak and chips on saturday with all the trimmings,and occasionally a fry up midweek.Do not eat puddings though apart from yorkshires.

[sherrardk]

We go out on Sundays so we have lunch at a pub, if weve been to the beach and have missed lunchtime we will go for an early curry. Can't remember the last time that I cooked a Sunday lunch, got better things to do when everyone is home. Will do a short-cut roast in the week now and then though.

[Midnightrider]

They're staying with Rosa's sister in Macclesfield tonight, then they'll carry on down to us tomorrow, we live just outside Coventry

[mumsie_wumsie]

I love a sunday roast, but wouldn't always cook one just for me. But if I had people coming to visit I would always cook a roast. It doesn't really take that long to cook one. Snacks and nibbles just aren't the same.

[Barmaid]

I personally wouldn't bother with the full thing - they probably wouldn't want a huge meal ahead of a long journey.

However, if you insist, I would leave it til tomorrow unless you just blanche the veggies (I wouldn't cook the meat in advance though).

Make a timetable of all the things you need to do and stick to it and you'll find that you can lob the meat in, prepare the veg and then go off and do something more interesting until an hour before.

It's a real shame Mercia doesn't post here anymore, she'd give you a really quick and easy method or something you can do in 10 minutes which would suit a coeliac.

[JonnyBoy12]

Yes, if you want to do a proper roast then you will have to spend half the day in the kitchen. Anyone here know of a quick way to do this?

[tiggerblue10]

I love a roast but haven't had one in ages. As its just me and Little Tiggs there isn't any point unless my parents come round but they usually like to do other things on Sunday.

[DC_FC]

You cook what you feel like eg cant be bothered mode or depends what you fancy eating,

[pinkcowprint]

or do the lamb,get some crusty hot baguettes with gravy and just have them!mmmm...