What constitutes "your" Sunday roast?

Interesting. I did not know roasts were a typical Sunday meal. Are you in the UK?

I just noticed your username. I guess you are in the UK.

I don’t really do those anymore. And I was raised to call it Sunday dinner. Most times, it was roast chicken, green beans or broccoli (my caretaker hated Brussels sprouts, but I like them now), mashed potatoes and either buttermilk biscuits or regular sliced store bread. In my household, we didn’t break out the candied yams/black-eyed peas/homemade mac and cheese/collard greens/cornbread-type of Af-Am stuff except on holidays.

I have had English Sunday roast many times, which isn’t that much different than what I grew up with. I love Yorkshire pudding, and sticky toffee for afters! :D

@aprilsimnel – candied yams/black-eyed peas/homemade mac and cheese/collard greens/cornbread I’m afraid you’ll have to explain all these for me.

I love a beef pot roast complete with roast onions, celery, carrots and potatoes.

But today we are going to have roast chicken and broccoli.

My family that I grew up with had macaroni pie, baked chicken, sweet potatoes and olives.

It’s either a pork joint or roasted chicken for me, with creamed mashed potatoes, SWEET CORN, cabbage, carrots, peas, butter beans & cauliflower & broccoli & Yorkshire pudding…. All topped with a nice thick stock gravy….. Today it’s a pork joint & it’s just gone in, I’ll be sitting down to eat it in a bout an hour & a half…… :-)
About an hour or so after that it’s ice cream & mixed fruit with wiped cream followed by an assortment of cakes & biscuits……….

I’d rather eat a football XD

it feels like that afterwards :-)

Today I think it’ll be bratwurst on the grill. More often than not it’s a burrito (the dill pickle chips are the not-so-secret-any more ingredient) or a bowl of soup or turkey sandwich or London broil (I’ll bet you don’t even have London broil in the UK, do you?) or a meatball sub from Subway when I go shopping.

Im beginning to feel very hungry…....

@CyanoticWasp – Nope! What’s London broil?

mouth watering….....

Usually our Sunday dinner is a roast of some kind like roast of beef or a roast chicken with gravy…always, always, always, a green veg. brussels sprouts or peas, mashed or roast potatoes and another veg. like carrots or sweet corn (we mix the corn and mashed potatoes together and cover in gravy once it hits our plates.)

However, today we are having Chicken and Dumplings which is a purely American South dish, which consists of slick dumplins’ thin flat noodle like things which are only made from flour, shortening and salted water, cooked in the chicken stock shredded white meat chicken and white potatoes all cooked together with a stick of butter till the dumplins’ are tender_ YUMMY

^^^^yes it’s incredibly fattening…but it’s a once in a while dish…only consumed in cold weather^^^^

So is roast simply synonomous with dinner in this instance?

Tonight I am making breaded pork chops, baked poatato, and sauteed julienned carrots and zuchini.

@Mat74UK London Broil is a cut of Top Round steak…usually roasted with potatoes, carrots, onions, with or without tomatoes…in a crock or oven, slowly, since the top round is a lean, tough cut of beef. You can also marinate and grill till med rare and slice thinly for sandwiches or fajitas…etc.

@JLeslie in this context, a “roast” is one of these: http://www.fouringredientcookbook.com/images/roastbeef.jpg and a proper Sunday dinner is a very particular dinner, like this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexbarlow/469716420/

We usually have lamb, beef or chicken (Beef today). Pork is common too but I don’t like it. It will be accompanied with roast potatoes, veg (carrots, parsnips, broccoli for example), stuffing and Yorkshire Pudding. My favourite meal of the week.

My Sunday dinner is like every other dinner—whatever the hell I feel like.

@downtide So an actual roast as I thought to begin with. I actually once posted a fluther question for roast recipes, becuase it is so much easier than much of the cooking I do, seems like a good Sunday idea. Those veggies in the photo look horribly overcooked as I would expect in England or the American south lol.

I fill the bathtub with warm tea. I smell like Earl Grey for days.

@JLeslie Yeah those veggies don’t look the best. Mine aren’t like that. :-D

I like doing a pork or pot roast with wedge potatoes, carrots and celery in the pan and steamed veggies on the side.

I make a yummy pork roast. Marinate meat in soy sauce, a dash of sugar and a lot of sesame seeds for 40 minutes or longer. Add sliced mushrooms to the pan and roast at 400 degrees, covered initially, and remove cover last 15 minutes of baking. Let meat rest 5 minutes and then slice thick, ¼ to ½ inch. Serve over white rice and green or french cut beens on the side.

Hint: if only marinating for 40 minutes I leave the the meat out in room temperature so cooking time will be shorter, and seems to produce a more tender meat.

I’m a vegetarian so I don’t eat any kind of roasted meats. But I love roasted vegetables! My favorites being butternut squash, Brussels sprouts, garlic and mushrooms. I also love just about any kind of potatoes from mashed to roasted to scalloped.

A couple of things that go good with roasted meats (on the side, of course) are corn pudding like this and spinach souffle like this and creamed pearl onions like this.

@JLeslie I am defrosting a pork roast as we speak and putting a few of your tips to work!!

Sundays used to be a day for cooking. It was either roast or fried chicken.
Roast…..onions, tomatoes, potatoes, carrots. Cook for about 9 hours. Homemade bread to dunk in the juice. OMG SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good!

My husband is Italian, and in keeping with his family’s traditions I usually make some sort of pasta on Sunday. Spaghetti or lasagna, with homemade sauce, of course.

My spouse is Enlgish so we will occasionally make a Sunday roast dinner which is usually roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, pan gravy, roast potatoes, and 2 veg. I don’t eat meat often but that is one of my favorite meat meals.

@Cruiser let me know how it turns out. Sorry I did not have more specific on measurements and cooking times. Just so you know I cook the meat and mushrooms in the soy it marinated in. The mushrooms and meat release some juices that takes away some of the salty of the soy sauce. The sauce basically just covers the bottom of the pan I am using, usually just a 9 inch square, before putting in the oven to bake.

We don’t have any special food nights but I like the idea if only to have an excuse for everyone to settle down and eat at a table, no rush instead of at the island/bar or in each of our rooms in front of a screen.

I actually cooked a beef roast today. I put it in a pot, poured Dale’s steak sauce over it, then covered the top with garlic, rosemary, and thyme. I put the burner on low for three hours. It was wonderful!!!!

Sundays are usually a pasta based day. I grew up immersed in the Italian culture, and on Sundays you make a large pot of fresh marinara sauce that lasts you the week, and have a big pasta dinner. I’m salivating right now

Sunday roasts apparently used to be a big deal in Australia since of course it is an English colony. What I find interesting is that since it is so hot for so many months here, many women would take their roast to the local bakery Sunday morning so they didn’t have to heat up the house. We often have my quick version of a roast dinner which is nuke any and all veg until soft, while quick frying cut up chicken breast on the stove. Mix it all together with olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic salt, whatever and then pop into the convection oven at pretty high heat for about 10 minutes to brown. There you go, a quickie roasted dinner, quite good if I do say so myself! We often have it for tea on week nights, not just Sunday dinner.

@JLeslie It came out yummy! No time to marinate so I put the soy in the pan and basted it twice. ½ way through I put onions, cloves of garlic, grape tomatoes and thick sliced portabella’s in the pan with 1/8th cup water and 1/8th cup Brown Ale. Only bad part is no left overs.

@Cruiser Oh good. Thanks for letting me know. The soy sauce is a slightly different flavor than straight salt, and it does something to the meat, makes it more tender or something?

I’m from the UK, but am currently in Austin, Texas for the holidays… We went to three supermarkets yesterday to find parsnips… oh, and to buy a fresh chicken… I did get some funny looks when I asked for them! We had roast chicken, roast potatoes (both normal and sweet) and roast parsnips, with carrots and sprouts, and homemade gravy. It was yummy!

@JLeslie Soy sauce has a richer flavour than straight salt. I use soy as a substitude for salt when making stews and soups.

@harple congrats on being able to rustle up a proper Sunday dinner in Texas!

@Mat74UK – Whoopsie! Those are Southern-American/African-American dishes.
I’ll break it down for you. The pictures are closest to how they looked on my plate when I was a kid:

candied yams picture (They’re really sweet potatoes. Yams are a different tuber, but whatever.)
Black-eyed peas (not the pop group) picture
homemade mac and cheese picture
Collard Greens picture
cornbread picture
The meat course would either be fried chicken or ham. On holidays, it’s turkey or ham.

Beef, buffalo, venison or pork slow cooked with onion, potatoes, carrots and garlic.
The drippings make an au jus we used as gravy.