Sunday Roast polite discussion thread.

[jontz01]

Christmas dinner was roast lamb shoulder and mint sauce. Roast spuds, parsnips, carrots, cauliflower and whole shallots. Steamed cabbage, broccoli and sprouts. A couple of pigs in blankets for salt. Buckets of gravy from the pan.

I reckon a good roast should have at the very least, 5 vegetables. Gravy is definitely king. You can't piss about with gravy.

On boxing day my 98 year old nan gave us a cooked joint of beef and a margarine tub of gravy. I carved the beef super thin, put it in a big non stick pan and dropped the gravy on top. It was so thick that you could slice it. A big brown wobbly lump of fat and Oxo.

Poultry these days can gtf. No interest.

 

[Ming]

This is my most successful ever thread!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Having read what you consider to be "normal for breakfast" fayre, I shall take any comment from you as to the appropriateness of Hashbrowns on a Sunday Roast with a sizeable pinch of salt and treat it with the contempt it deserves.


Don't - honestly, it's not worth it - FBM will have had, at one time or another, either individually or in some nightmarish combination, all of what you mention for breakfast let alone on his version of a Sunday Roast

I should write a cookbook - it'd be a best-seller.

 

[High Voltage]

I should write a cookbook - it'd be a best-seller.

I just realised why you like seagulls so much

 

[Gromit]

This was a roast dinner I had in a Yorkshire pub. It included creamed leek and crispy kale.

I fully expected to hate the kale but it was in fact amazing.

As a result we've started experimenting with crispy kale. Not perfected it yet but we think we might be able to just bang it out of the air fryer once we crack the settings.

 

[Epona]

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This was a roast dinner I had in a Yorkshire pub. It included creamed leek and crispy kale.

I fully expected to hate the kale but it was in fact amazing.

As a result we've started experimenting with crispy kale. Not perfected it yet but we think we might be able to just bang it out of the air fryer once we crack the settings.

Yeah, I urge caution...

OK dinner last night was lovely, but I do need to report back on doing "crispy seaweed" in my air fryer, which was... interesting.

The method I found online said to toss the kale with oil, salt, and spices and air fry for 5 minutes on 180 C.

What happened was I pulled out the basket after 2 minutes to give it a shake and bits of burning kale shot across the kitchen at about 100 mph! Some of it was edible, but honestly I'd recommend a shorter time on a lower temp but I suspect other methods are still going to be better!

 

[Gromit]

Yeah, I urge caution...

It seems to be the veg equivalent of pears.
Not ripe, not ripe, ripe for 2 seconds and now it's sludge.

Kale;
Not cooked, not cooked, cooked perfectly for all of 2 seconds and now burnt to cinders.

 

[Badgers]

Woman 'felt physically sick' after 'finding a snail' in Toby Carvery dinner

School worker Chloe Walshaw was left horrified and 'spat her food out'.

metro.co.uk

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Woman 'felt physically sick' after 'finding a snail' in Toby Carvery dinner

School worker Chloe Walshaw was left horrified and 'spat her food out'.

metro.co.uk

A bit of extra protein.

 

[telbert]

I’d have been happy with that.

When you coming?

 

[bemused]

Behold my masterpiece, although now I realise I forget to make yorkie puddings.

 

[Elpenor]

That looks good. I’d eat it and I don’t like roasts. Red cabbage too

 

[The39thStep]

That looks good. I’d eat it and I don’t like roasts. Red cabbage too

Def have the roast beef , roast parsnips and red cabbage

 

[spitfire]

Behold my masterpiece, although now I realise I forget to make yorkie puddings.

That looks really good.

 

[campanula]

Seeing as I am the one cooking it, I have boiled down (ahem) the roast dinner to its simplest essence. Which consists of (in order of essentialness) meat, roast potatoes, gravy, a vegetable (I am northern (and Irish at that) - vegetables mean tomato ketchup, cabbage or potatoes) and some frozen yorkies for the demanding ones). People can add whatever shit they find in the numerous corners of the pantry and fridge but I won't be fucking about with sauces...and never, not once, in my entire life, have I heard of cheese being involved in a roast dinner. I do go to a good butcher (and have a scary amount of access to ducks and shit), grow the very best potatoes and make good gravy. I don't care about anything else - have no thoughts whatsoever about what should and should not be included...this is just what I now do after almost 5 freaking decades of making dinners for picky family members.

 

[Maltin]

Seeing as I am the one cooking it, I have boiled down (ahem) the roast dinner to its simplest essence. Which consists of (in order of essentialness) meat, roast potatoes, gravy, a vegetable (I am northern (and Irish at that) - vegetables mean tomato ketchup, cabbage or potatoes) and some frozen yorkies for the demanding ones). People can add whatever shit they find in the numerous corners of the pantry and fridge but I won't be fucking about with sauces...and never, not once, in my entire life, have I heard of cheese being involved in a roast dinner. I do go to a good butcher (and have a scary amount of access to ducks and shit), grow the very best potatoes and make good gravy. I don't care about anything else - have no thoughts whatsoever about what should and should not be included...this is just what I now do after almost 5 freaking decades of making dinners for picky family members.

I don’t think tomato ketchup counts as a vegetable

 

[danny la rouge]

I don’t think tomato ketchup counts as a vegetable

Quite. It’s fruit salad.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I don’t think tomato ketchup counts as a vegetable

I think the point there was dealing with the foibles of younger family members.

 

[ouirdeaux]

The problem with roast dinners is that gravy and parsnips are evil, and potatoes are overrated.

 

[Epona]

The problem with roast dinners is that gravy and parsnips are evil, and potatoes are overrated.

Sorry... What??

The parsnips thing I get, lots of people don't like them. But I think disliking both gravy and potatoes is somewhat uncommon - I do think that being the case, roast dinners are probably not for you

 

[ouirdeaux]

I can handle the odd potato, but there are people here who want to have several types on the plate. And why would you want to infect your dinner with the mediocrity of potatoes when there is the sheer brilliance of Yorkshire pudding?

The only acceptable 'gravy' is the pure juice of the meat, not the abomination created in a demonic kitchen with added fat and flour.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

The problem with roast dinners is that gravy and parsnips are evil, and potatoes are overrated.

If it wasn’t for gravy & roast spuds, western civilisation wouldn’t exist as we know it. Weirdo.

 

[High Voltage]

I can handle the odd potato, but there are people here who want to have several types on the plate. And why would you want to infect your dinner with the mediocrity of potatoes when there is the sheer brilliance of Yorkshire pudding?

The only acceptable 'gravy' is the pure juice of the meat, not the abomination created in a demonic kitchen with added fat and flour.

Thus limiting your roast meat to being beef only

 

[ouirdeaux]

Have you considered thinking outside the box and having a Yorkshire pudding with lamb or pork? The first time I dared, I was trembling and waiting for the knock on the door from the police, but it never came. I'm quite casual about it now.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Have you considered thinking outside the box and having a Yorkshire pudding with lamb or pork? The first time I dared, I was trembling and waiting for the knock on the door from the police, but it never came. I'm quite casual about it now.

Pubs around these parts certainly do serve a Yorkie with all their roast options, but when I cook at home it’s only with roast beef. Oven space & I’m very much a traditionalist when it comes to matters of the Sunday roast.

 

[iona]

What kind of horrific trauma do you have to go through to somehow end up not liking gravy Like how is that even possible. Incomprehensible

 

[strung out]

What kind of horrific trauma do you have to go through to somehow end up not liking gravy Like how is that even possible. Incomprehensible

Bisto.

 

[iona]

Bisto.

Is not gravy.

 

[tonysingh]

I like lumpy gravy.

 

[BoatieBird]

I tend to have Yorkshire puds with all my roasts (usually Aldi's posh frozen ones ).
Cauliflower cheese only ever with a gammon joint.

I'm going to GMFRTO later...