Sunday Roast polite discussion thread.

[Ming]

RIGHT! (rubs insect legs together). We've had burgers. We've had FEBs. We've had pizzas.

This is for the great staple the Sunday roast. Any meats or veggy options. I'll start with a low bar.

 

[Ming]

Does anyone want to see my 14 inch chopper?

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[Ming]

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[Epona]

Can we agree that the core is Roast Spuds?

I feel there is a wide variation on other components.

Roast spuds DOES NOT mean that there can't be mash or boiled new potatoes also, just that roasties are core.

 

[tonysingh]

Can we agree that the core is Roast Spuds?

I feel there is a wide variation on other components.

Roast spuds DOES NOT mean that there can't be mash or boiled new potatoes also, just that roasties are core.

Surely the core, the crowning jewel if you will, of any roast is the sprout?

 

[Epona]

RIGHT! (rubs insect legs together). We've had burgers. We've had FEBs. We've had pizzas.

This is for the great staple the Sunday roast. Any meats or veggy options. I'll start with a low bar.

(As I may have said in the other thread) Nice meat and 2 veg, would 100% eat and enjoy, it's not a Sunday Roast though

 

[Epona]

Surely the core, the crowning jewel if you will, of any roast is the sprout?

Only at Xmas

 

[Epona]

I do think the main item is roast spuds - it actually doesn't matter too much beyond that point whether you are ploughing your way through a massive joint of meat or a veggie wellington or bake of some sort (so this is an equal opportunities thread)- it is the sides that pin it together and make it a roast dinner or Sunday roast, with the spotlight being on the perfectly crispy roast spud

 

[Ming]

Surely the core, the crowning jewel if you will, of any roast is the sprout?

Farts with texture. I only ever eat three a year out of a sense of duty. At Christmas. Everyone's like 'oh try them pan fried with nuts and bacon lardons'. Hmph. Any food which requires its essential taste disguised with other foods is dodgy. Oysters are like that.

 

[Ming]

Only at Xmas

 

[tonysingh]

Only at Xmas

Amazing how quick you can go off someone..... sprouts are perfection in small green form and are to the roast what pepperoni is to the pizza, the little swish of edible joy.

Farts with texture. I only ever eat three a year out of a sense of duty. At Christmas. Everyone's like 'oh try them pan fried with nuts and bacon lardons'. Hmph. Any food which requires its essential taste disguised with other foods is dodgy. Oysters are like that.

Wrong un.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Does anyone want to see my 14 inch chopper?

 

[Epona]

Amazing how quick you can go off someone..... sprouts are perfection in small green form and are to the roast what pepperoni is to the pizza, the little swish of edible joy.




Wrong un.

Aye but - they are a winter vegetable that does really well here, if you are getting them for your dinner in July then I am going to have to do a disapproving "that doesn't sound good for the environment" type eyebrow squinty thing

 

[Ming]

Amazing how quick you can go off someone..... sprouts are perfection in small green form and are to the roast what pepperoni is to the pizza, the little swish of edible joy.




Wrong un.

For a mitigating factor. My mum was born before the start of the second world war. So from a pre 'Al dente' generation. She'd start boiling the sprouts in October.

 

[tonysingh]

For a mitigating factor. My mum was born before the start of the second world war. So from a pre 'Al dente' generation. She'd start boiling the sprouts in October.

Sprouts boiled enough could make a puree to add to all sorts of foods, even like a fondue to dip roast potatoes in.

 

[Ming]

Sprouts boiled enough could make a puree to add to all sorts of foods, even like a fondue to dip roast potatoes in.

Now you're just trying to provoke me.

 

[tonysingh]

Now you're just trying to provoke me.

Not at all. Roast potatoes are dull and tasteless. Pureed sprouts to add flavour and you're sorted

 

[Ming]

Not at all. Roast potatoes are dull and tasteless. Pureed sprouts to add flavour and you're sorted

My new roast thread's got of a really good start rofl!
We need pics dude.

 

[Humberto]

Consign them (roast dinners) to Grytviken. Fucking awful, stodgey misery.

 

[Epona]

Not at all. Roast potatoes are dull and tasteless. Pureed sprouts to add flavour and you're sorted

You must be doing something wrong with your roast spuds, they are the crowning glory of any roast dinner and pretty much the whole point of it

 

[tonysingh]

You must be doing something wrong with your roast spuds, they are the crowning glory of any roast dinner and pretty much the whole point of it

Tbf I'm very single so rarely cook a Sunday roast. I should maybe have kept my mouth shut.

 

[Epona]

Consign them (roast dinners) to Grytviken. Fucking awful, stodgey misery.

I feel like you've gone in too hard and too fast with this, you might want to consider a bit of a sneaky side-play by going for something like a "roast spuds - skin on or off?" argument, and then once you are in the heart of the Death Star, dropping a surprise proton torpedo down the roast dinner exhaust chute.

 

[Ming]

No comrades no! Like the FEB a roast is combination of ingredients. Is the roasty more dominant than the sprout??? Is the sausage more important than the bean?

 

[Ming]

I feel like you've gone in too hard and too fast with this, you might want to consider a bit of a sneaky side-play by going for something like a "roast spuds - skin on or off?" argument, and then once you are in the heart of the Death Star, dropping a surprise proton torpedo down the roast dinner exhaust chute.

Skin off.

 

[Epona]

Tbf I'm very single so rarely cook a Sunday roast. I should maybe have kept my mouth shut.

Please don't ever feel that you should keep your mouth shut!

 

[Epona]

No comrades no! Like the FEB a roast is combination of ingredients. Is the roasty more dominant than the sprout??? Is the sausage more important than the bean?

Yes.

 

[Ming]

Yes.

lol!

 

[Epona]

I think the meat (or meat substitute element) is actually one of the least important factors - hear me out - you always want roast spuds as the first thing, right?

A lot of the rest depends upon the meat (or veggie alternative) that is being served. And Yes the veggie alternative is fine here, because the core is the roast spuds and they can go with meat or veggie stuff. Like I will take a Yorkshire pud with anything, but if roast beef is served without a Yorkshire - and I would be happy to take it in traditional style with gravy before the meat course (the more the pudding the more the meat etc) - but if I had beef without Yorkshire pud I would be disappointed. Like stuffing goes with chicken or other poultry or pork.

But I do believe that the one core component is roast spuds - it is what the entire meal hinges on - from there you can branch out to lamb and mint sauce, or chicken/turkey and stuffing, pork and stuffing and apple sauce, beef and yorkshires - the spuds are what pin it all together. Glorious roast spuds (you can have other spuds on the side ofc but the roasties is what makes it a roast dinner).

 

[porp]

At the risk of seeming contrarian for the sake of it, is the modern roast potato actually too crispy? I don't mean burnt, I mean is there too much emphasis on getting that crispy rough exterior? I'm speaking as someone who is fairly frequently called upon to do roast potatoes. I'm thinking next time no parboil, no roughing up , just straight oven cook until cooked.