The I Don't Go Anywhere For Sunday Lunch Thread

[Dopamine1979]

I am a lazy sod who can't be arsed.

Fact.

[Jeremy]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> What isn?t restful about peeling a few veggies,

> listening to 6 music and checking on the meat

> every so often?

>

> Genuinely can?t think of anything I?d rather be

> doing on a Sunday

Depends how much you enjoy peeling veg, doesn't it? I happen to hate it.

But I love eating, so can sometimes justify the hassle of all the prep.

[El Pibe]

I'm with SJ, I enjoy the whole process anyway.

And good spuds a worth a peel a parboil a shake and some preheated oilive oil, and now my kids are likely to be up for dinner I get to have them a bit more often.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Louisa Wrote:

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> Sunday roast yet another tradition down the plug

> hole. It doesn't have to be expensive wasteful or

> arduous. People who don't bother with them for

> those reasons are probably just lazy sods who

> can't be arsed. Fact.

>

> Louisa.

Or live on their own. Or are watching food and fuel bills. Or have other things to do.

[Jah Lush]

El Pibe Wrote:

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And given I married an irish potnonomicaphobia sufferer.

WTF is that? Is it the fear of doing the washing up?

[El Pibe]

Potatoes!!!!

[Jah Lush]

Ha! Given your other half is Irish... that has rather tickled me. Guaranteed not to have a chip on her shoulder then.

[aquarius moon]

Seabag Wrote:

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> Ps. What days off do you get off AM

I get a couple of weekdays off instead. It varies which ones. And I do cook a roast sometimes (obviously without the meat.)

Never have time for that on a Sunday though.

Have to eat & wash up quick before X Factor starts!

[Alan Medic]

Louisa Wrote:

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> Sunday roast yet another tradition down the plug

> hole. It doesn't have to be expensive wasteful or

> arduous. People who don't bother with them for

> those reasons are probably just lazy sods who

> can't be arsed. Fact.

>

> Louisa.

How can you follow a sentence which includes 'probably' with the statement 'fact'?

Not Louisa

[????]

Family all sat down to Sunday roast in our house as most weeks - I actually feel a bit sorry for people who don't 'get' this - ie the tradition and the food.

[Jah Lush]

I do get it Quids it's just that I live alone. As a child we always had a sunday roast at home with all the family gathered around the table. It's a fine tradition.

A family that eats together stays together.

[Pickle]

I find preparing a roast dinner a lot less arduous than other meals. Peel and parboil the spuds, add parsnips and usually some carrots to throw in the roasting tin too. All in the oven together, one roasting tin, lined with foil. Just one item to wash up. Kids love it, and leftover meat sorts my lunches for a couple of days afterwards.

No matter what the meal, I'm a stickler for sitting down to have a family meal on a Sunday,. The rest of the week I sit and eat with the kids, but it's only on a Sunday that Mr Pickle is home to be able to eat with us too. Important family time.

[Alan Medic]

When I was growing up we had a Sunday roast and the meal for every other day of the week you knew in advance as it was the same every week. It had to be fish on Friday for religious reasons.

[maxxi]

Just the two of us but usually do a Sunday roast - Dinner rather than lunch. A cheap cut (belly pork, lamb shank etc) from a good butcher cooked long and low over root veg, onions herbs bit of wine and garlic - very nearly one pot cooking (pan of spring greens apart). Bit of prep early on but low maintenance and clear up.

Re stock option - always keep bones etc. and bung in freezer until got enough then make big batch of stock - makes the very best risotto.

[Otta]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> StraferJack Wrote:

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> > What isn?t restful about peeling a few veggies,

> > listening to 6 music and checking on the meat

> > every so often?

> >

> > Genuinely can?t think of anything I?d rather be

> > doing on a Sunday

>

> Depends how much you enjoy peeling veg, doesn't

> it? I happen to hate it.

>

> But I love eating, so can sometimes justify the

> hassle of all the prep.

Wasn't peeling spuds seen as a punishment in the armed forces?

Not my kind of rest, but different folks and all that.

[Seabag]

???? Wrote:

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> Family all sat down to Sunday roast in our house

> as most weeks - I actually feel a bit sorry for

> people who don't 'get' this - ie the tradition and

> the food.

It's a good day, whether out or in, to do the above

I'm going for the double today. One out yesterday, one in today

I'm sitting next to the beef as we speak/type

*Looks longingly at beef*

[Otta]

I was raised in a real Sunday roast around the table household, and I sometimes take my kids to my mum's for this which is lovely.

I agree, the whole family around the table thing is a good thing, and I wish we did it more, but we just don't sit down and eat together.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Had a lovely Roast Sunday yesterday: friends round for beef, braised red cabbage, roasted pots and carrots, peas, and the most delicious gravy (thanks Jamie O.) Only downside was I'd cheated on the Yorkshire puds and forgot they were in the fridge.

Then went to other friends for supper which was roast chicken, blow-your-socks-off chilli stuffing and all the usual trimmings.

Absolutely stuffed but a wonderful day of good food and friends and family, and not a little wine.

[edcam]

Mustard Wrote:

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> Try adding rocket to the chorizo and prawn dish,

> it goes really well with chorizo. Chorizo, rocket

> and charred or jarred peppers also good on a soft

> roll.

Rocket is the devil's food.

[Siduhe]

edcam Wrote:

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Rocket is the devil's food.

Or "privet" as one of my oldest friends said, the first time I made him a rocket and roast beef sandwich (believing myself to be the height of sophistication at the time, some 20 years ago)...

D

[Otta]

Another thumbs down for rocket. Horrid bitter stuff.

[El Pibe]

I think rocket benefits from less is more. Used sparingly it has a wonderfully peppery flavour.

Crammed in to anything it overpowers anything and is indeed horribly bitter.

See Louisa's favourite, pret for the worst offender, although it takes that much to overpower the sickening amounts of mayo they drown everything in.

[Otta]

Yeah you're probably right, usually when you see rocket there's heaps of the bloodly stuff on the plate.

[El Pibe]

I once receivd a salad that was literally a heap of rocket...you have to be joking, inedible, there wasn't even any dressing!!!!!

[edcam]

It makes me very happy to see others who feel we are slowly being poisoned by the ubiquity of the evil green stuff.