Traditional Sunday roast

[CdnCarrie]

Do you make a traditional Sunday supper - roast and/or ham - on Sunday?
We often do in fall and winter months.
Spring and summer we don’t.

Tonight was ham and scalloped potatoes.
Both DH and I come from British roots and farm families so guess we just grew up with the tradition.

 

[georgina]

My mom was Irish and the family joke was her traditional dry roast beef. No, we don’t usually do a Sunday roast. Ham is way too salty to me, we don’t eat much beef; occasionally I will roast a chicken.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Do you make a traditional Sunday supper - roast and/or ham - on Sunday?
We often do in fall and winter months.

Used to. When I was feeding more than 2 people. When I was growing up, we had rump roast on Sunday. My mom would put a frozen/floured rump roast in a heavy cooker, with carrots, potatoes, onion before we left for church. By the time we got home, it was done and the house smelled wonderful.

She was from a "dirt poor" sharecropper family in Kansas, and that's mostly the kinds of meals we had as kids.

 

[Praying Colonel]

We usually eat out for Sunday lunch, and dinner is scrounging for leftovers.

 

[fla4fun]

No. I live alone, so that would be a lot of work for one person. As far as food goes, unless it’s a holiday, Sunday is like any other day. Sometimes, for holidays, I will buy a steak or chop, and make a baked potato and a veg.

 

[Meriweather]

no...we hardly ever have roast.
I use a lot of recipes and we rarely eat the same thing during a week.....it is always varied.
Tonight I am grilling burgers and having coleslaw

 

[nw6675]

Growing up, we ate Sunday "dinner" after church every week at my grandparents house with a meat and three plus dessert such as pound cake. Fast forward 30 years later and my dh works weekends. My dd and I usually order in. Our roasts tend to be on Tuesdays which is his first day off for the week.

 

[Disneylover99]

We don't like ham, but might have roast every couple of months.
My family would get sick of it quickly if we had it every Sunday.
They mostly prefer chicken dishes.

 

[ronandannette]

no...we hardly ever have roast.
I use a lot of recipes and we rarely eat the same thing during a week.....it is always varied.
Tonight I am grilling burgers and having coleslaw

DH loves roast beef but it's not a favourite of mine. Sundays though are the day that I'll do more involved recipes that require lots of steps and extended cooking times; the sort I don't do on weeknights after work.

 

[easyas123]

While not every Sunday, often enough.
This evening was a venison roast cooked until it was pull apart tender in frozen stewed tomatoes & peppers from last summers garden.
Pretty soon we will be to busy on the farm during the spring/summer/fall months so I slack of then. Plus - as it's only the two of us now we usually just favor something simpler when time is scarce.

For me, Sunday's in the late fall thru winter & early spring = more time to cook more time consuming meals, so more leg of lamb, fowl, pork or venison or beef roasts.

 

[easyas123]

While not every Sunday, often enough.
This evening was a venison roast cooked until it was pull apart tender in frozen stewed tomatoes & peppers from last summers garden.
Pretty soon we will be to busy on the farm during the spring/summer/fall months so I slack of then. Plus - as it's only the two of us now we usually just favor something simpler when time is scarce.

 

[RedAngie]

Sunday roast was never a thing for us. Growing up my family went to a restaurant practically every Sunday.

As an adult I don’t go out to eat every Sunday, but I rarely make what is considered a traditional Sunday meal.

We went to a restaurant practically every Friday too.

 

[nene0182]

We always have something on Sunday that takes longer than anything I cook during the week. Tonight was roast, mashed potatoes and roasted asparagus.

 

[TippyThomas]

I used to have meals like that when it was my parents and I. Now that I live alone I just don't cook like that anymore.

 

[tvguy]

Well, Chuck Roast and Dover Sole Fillets were on sale this week. We decided to have the sole tonight and the roast tomorrow.

 

[NotUrsula]

Lord, no; my parents grew up with those Irish command performance after-Mass dinners for 20+ people (9 children, their spouses and children, etc.), and decided when they came to the US that roasts were too expensive, and moreover, from Mom's POV, that life was too short. We only did it about 10x yearly on birthdays and holidays, and I do the same.

However, given the price of beef, I haven't actually oven-roasted a piece of beef in decades; the only kind of beef roast I buy (*very* occasionally, only if I catch a major sale) is a smaller chuck roast that is made in a pot on the stove. I might roast a hen or a piece of pork, but beef is too pricey.

 

[Sweettears]

We always have a roast or something similar. Beef, ham, pork, turkey, roaster chicken you name it. We sometimes have family but being only two doesn’t stop us. We’re very good at using leftovers.

We have adult children in the family that live close by that often join us. Just had a corned beef this evening. Delicious

 

[MamaBelle4]

No, I meal plan and we eat whatever is next on the menu or whatever needs used first (fresh veggies seem to be lasting less and less and less before going badly and I only buy for 4 days at a time!).

Tonight was cottage pie, simply because I had the ground beef thawed and ready to go. I think tomorrow we'll be having spicy jerk chicken tacos. But we'll see!

 

[Minnesota!]

I typically cook my biggest meal of the week on Sundays.

We had leftover chili in the fridge today, and DH asked for chili spaghetti with it, so that was easy. I also made burgers for the kids, stuffed peppers for dhs lunches, quinoa for the week, baked potatoes for the week, and a meatloaf.

So...yeah, big cooking today, even though they got an easy dinner

 

[BlueStarryHat]

We usually have spaghetti with meatballs and sausage when we cook on Sundays; we don't always. My late uncle was Italian.

Even though I've taken over as cook, my aunt makes the sauce using his recipe. I've tried it a couple of times, but I just can't get it right like she does.