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Something I just read on another thread by Marg P about roast pork with crackling, apart from making my mouth water, made e realise that despite living for 25 years in Italy I always do a proper roast of some sort on Sunday for lunch. It is possibly the only "English" style meal of the week but I always do it even though it's not the custom here.
Have just finished clearing up after stuffed roast veal today, last week it was a hand-reared duck which a friend gave us and the week before that a really nice piece of beef with yorkshire pudding and all the trimmings. I have a lovely boned leg of lamb in the freezer for next week and I will stuff it as my mum taught me with her special stuffing mix which has chopped dried apricots in it. It's delicious.
Does anyone else still follow this old tradition? What is your favourite?

I think I would be struggling to choose between beef 'n yorkshires and pork with apple sauce myself...but then there are lots of other possibilities!

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Chicken with garlic lemon and tarragon or shoulder of lamb (prefer it to leg) with garlic and rosemary. My favourites when we get round to them, but in the evening not lunchtime.

With roasties, braised leeks and spring cabbage.

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Yes....I do. I cook a roast every week......I don't often do lamb because I can't eat it.
(I do sometimes cook raost lamb for himself my next door neighbour and Ma...as the all love roast lamb - when I do this I just have the veggies and a bit of beef gravy - I always have some frozen cubes of beef gravy in my freezer)
My sister lives in Brisbane and if she is not working(she is a nurse) she cooks a roast...and on christmas day they have Turkey, christmas pud and all the trimming...this despite the temperature there being in the high 30's and sometimes over 40 degrees.

At the moment there is a goodly sized chunk of pork leg in the oven - I have just made the stuffing and the apples are in the bottom of the oven roasting for the apple sauce (some eating apples with wrinkly skins - I feared they would not get eaten, but they will as apple sauce).

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Yes we have ours in the evening...with steamed cabbage, cauli and carrots...a yorkshire pudding...apple sauce and stuffing.

There should be some pork left for a butty as well.

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Not so much the Sunday roast although we do have them, but at least one morning of the week-end there'll be a sizzlin' of frying Sossys or Bacon, along with some variation of egg, all packed on toast lathered with salty butter & of course it goes without saying, a rather large dollop of HP, a proper "Manwedge". :D

And when folk stop over after an evenings supping & socialising it's the "Full English" the next morning. Introducing the Congtinongtals to this finest of British traditions has certainly raised a few eyebrows, but once tasted ................ converts all, British culture creeping through the reich. ;)

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Always had sunday roast up to last couple of years, now sometimes have,Depends somewhat on how the chef is.:D

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I love a sunday roast and will be making a beef roast today. Im always disapointed on a sunday if im not having a roast.

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'Tis the season of the Brussel Sprout...!!!
Roast Chicken is my fave....bunging it in the oven in about an hour.

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Just made slow cooked ox cheeks with mash and sprouts in a thick onion gravy
The cheeks where cooked for 4hours but it just fell apart did not need a knife really good and tasty:D

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This is making me well hungry!
I love doing a roast for us, it is very satisfying sitting down to eat.

Esp as the other half has to wash up!

My fave is either chicken or beef mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :D

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My favourite Sunday roast is the one the boss makes, doesn't matter what it is.
Still recovering from my attempt last Sunday.

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You managed to get some ox cheeks then Mick.
Glad it was worth the wait.

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having a sunday roast tonight but admitidly sundays are more often akash nights these days :D

traditional sunday madrass often prevails

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Tabenac' ... will you quit it. Here's me looking at leftover pizza ... not to mention I'm so hungover my hair hurts ... and I got lotsa hair:D

But I do have my sunday joint ... all rolled and ready to spark up:alright:

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Yep Tesco in Accy :D

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your joint won't be much good with apple sauce though......will it?
Oh, I sooooo don't like pizza. I would have to be proper starving to eat it.
It looks like sick on a piecrust.

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See you didn't have to go to Bury after all!

(there was some very nice stuff on offer yesterday - ask Heth, she will tell you):D.

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Stop it I have only just stopped dribbling!!! ;) :D

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Thought that was usually sick on a pavement, on a Friday night, after a few drinks or several?

Try getting one without sweetcorn, they don't look quite so graphic.

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No Sue......I just don't like any of the flavours.
My daughter makes her own from scratch and she has tried to persuade me to try one of hers...but I don't like them at all...same with wraps. They all taste like salad wrapped in damp wallpaper.
I like plain, 'stick to your ribs' food. Food that hasn't been messed with.
Totally unadventurous in the food department.

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Ahr ey ! Did we really need to know that ??? :rolleyes:

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Ha ha I agree about wraps and have been trying to find a suitable description. Damp wall paper just about sums it up. Pity really as I quite like some of the fillings you can get in the ones in places like M&S.

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How did I know you would be along lowering the tone mister??!! :eek:

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ME ....... Lowering the tone ? Oh cointreau, mong cherry ! ;) I think you'll find I raise the bar my dear (only so I can pester the Bar Wenches :D)

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Its a good job I like you........................:D

Pester away seen as I am a wench as you so kindly told me! ;)

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A 'Pavement Pizza!'


I LOVE making pizza from scratch-but rarely eat them myself.
Wraps are another story, they're what we've had for lunch and/or dinner most days for the past couple of weeks lol
I need to kick that habit I think!
As for Sunday roasts , have to admit I never have had one!

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You have never had a roast dinner??????!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek::confused::eek:

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She's a vegetarian...

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Nope!
Parents/family weren't the type to make it a thing to eat together, I was put on a restricted diet from an early age-and yes I made the personal decision to not eat meat from an early age following that. :)

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Oh ok then that explains.... didnt realise ;)

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:)
It only half explains it, though-I think most people have traditional Sunday dinners from a young age, and if I had have had that, I think I may have carried on having something similar when I got older, perhaps omitting the meat and replacing with something else...

But I've never done that. I know a lot of vegetarians keep up the tradition by cooking all the 'trimmings' (they're what make it different, really to most other dinners) and working around the meat.
This thread's making me want to attempt this, now lol :)

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My mum is a veggie and she gets the veggie alternative to a meat loaf at Christmas so she has a veggie roast with us.

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I like it that when I clicked on that link I got a page titled 'Hell in a Handbasket'. :D

It's a good idea and I'm thinking I will do it this year :)

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Didnt realise it were going to do that! Too technical for me!

Yeah she enjoys them and we all get a bit as we like them aswell, they have one in M & S which is very nice and not too dear.

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legf of lamb in the oven on the timer to be perfect for when I get in from home tonight...

Roasts are not just for Sunday!!! :D

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Way that reads ian, yer having yer evening meal at yer other womans.:hehetable

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i tried been a vergetarian last xmas but i ended up just called the turkey carrot.It wasnt teh best idea in the world it was a bitch to mash :confused:

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Now that I seem to have recovered from my birthday and I feel like solid food again:D, I have a roast of moose in the slow cooker ... a few potatoes, baby carrots, turnip, and onions, with salt and pepper and a couple of cloves of garilic. Should turn out ok I think ... already smells great. Ok, so it isn't Sunday, and moose is possibly not in the UK "tradition", but with a nice bottle of red ... mmm.

By the way, all ingredients are locally grown (even the moose;)) and the wine is from Prince Edward County just down the road from here.

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That sounds good Eric!

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Sugarmouse -I have a very good vegetarian cookbook which suggests several alternatives for a "roast" (Sarah Brown's healthy living cookbook) The "Celebration" roast sounds nice -layers of a creamy nut mixture, then mushrooms with walnuts in a moist layer in the center. There's also a buckwheat roast and a nice-looking vegetable terrine. Take a bit longer to make than bunging stuff in a wrap though!

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Eric -what does Moose actually taste like? Please don't say sort of "Moosey"!;)

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Italian here tonight -just made a Ragù (what the call Bolognese sauce in the UK!) -not having it with Spaghetti though - the traditional way is actually with Tagliatelle -so it's a "Tag Bol" and not a "Spag Bol"!

Bit of a change last night -husband and boys have been watching "Man vs Food" and fancied a cheese-burger with all the salad, gherkins and sauces etc. -with chips of course.

Lunch today was a home-made minestrone followed by an onion frittata and mixed salad -I am a slave to the kitchen:(

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Shut up Eric - this has prompted me to go looking for a slow cooker - then all I need is the moose!

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Sue..he has only told us about it to make us slavver...knowing full well that none of us is near enough to gatecrash his slow roasted moose.:D

I have just braised some shin beef with kidney and a bit of barley........this will be for tea tomorrow.
I will put a suet crust on it in the morning. We will be having it with baby new potatoes, steamed carrots and cauliflower. Proper stick to the ribs grub.

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Sue, You either need part of a moose or a very large, slow cooker.

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Hey, hark at pot callin t'kettle black;)

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Talking of moose ... one of the finest and most popular vegetarian cookbooks in the world is the "Moosewood Cookbook".

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I've been to a friends house for a slap up meal, it turned out all her meals were made from that books recipes.
I tried a sampling from each of the dishes she placed before me.

My feet didn't touch the floor after I said, "can we come to a compromise? Throw this lot away, I'll eat the book".

:o

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Goldarnit, was doing myself a nice steak and some thick cut chip's, got involved in this thread time passed am now sucking on genuine cow hide and breaking my teeth on fossilised potato!
:mad:

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Chicken ! :D

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I imagine it being something like venison -not a fan of "gamey" stuff myself.

Much prefer a straightforward gammon steak topped with a fried egg! Can't get 'em in Italy, or decent back bacon either for that matter. It's like being in the third world - and no Vimto either as I recently discussed with Sue on another thread, though I discovered you can get it in the Cape Verde Islands!:eek: So it's either a visit to Accy or there next time I fancy a glass...:rolleyes:

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Ha ha Dianne you'll have to go a bit further for your Vimto - it was Gambia not Cape Verde, sorry!

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It's kinda like venison ... or maybe horse;) ... And from reading the economic news from that side of the pond, much of Europe seems to be heading for third world status. By the way, the best bacon in the world comes from Canada. But no Vimto:(

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I imagine it also looked as if it had already been eaten once! :D

Sounds nice!I couldn't cook it at the moment as our oven's broken lol but if I was cooking xmas dinner I would definitely attempt it. I like vegweb.com, for the odd time I do want to use a recipe-I love cooking but mostly just figure things out for myself.

Haha to be fair, I do cook the contents of the wrap before I 'bung it in' :D

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You are right about that Eric - things are really bad over here especially for young people. Latest statistics in Italy show that 36.6% of 18-24 yr olds are out of work and have never worked! The others are all students...!

As to Canadian bacon -not so sure -been watching a programme with a famous Canadian chef called Lynn -yesterday she was using turkey bacon -YUK! I did like what she did with maple syrup though...

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Thought I'd show you where I spend much of my day - was cooking rib eye steaks last night on a special "stone"! We don't eat in the kitchen -have a separate dining room.:)

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Is there a video of it? perhaps you'd have to put it in over 18's?

:eek:

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Forgot to mention she was with a bunch of Lumberjacks for the maple syrup episode -very entertaining...Would much rather leave it to your imagination -so much more scope for enjoyment then! You can invent all the recipes you want that way ;)

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Roast chicken every Sunday up here at Rishton Towers, a firm favourite. Prep for dinner then it's into the Great Hall with a book and a bottle of red by the fire while everything cooks.

Has my favourite day of the week for several years now.

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Sounds like a recipe for success!

I had a change of plan today as my other half didn't fancy lamb - Roast pork instead with crispy roast potatoes, apple fritters, mashed carrots with buttenut squash, cabbage and a delicious onion herb gravy! Went down a treat - afternoon indoors as it's freezing cold outside and I went for a walk this morning crunching through the snow.

I think it might be a hot chocolate sort of afternoon here!:D

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Can you get crumpets in Italy? Sounds like that sort of a day.

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Oh aye theres loads of crumpet in Italy.

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Unfortunately no -but I have some crumpet rings and sometimes make my own when inspired. They are surprisingly easy and quite fun to make too!

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Yes I've got some of those... used to use them when I cooked on a woddburning Aga-type stove.

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wod? Some folk have money to burn.

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I do like an Aga, they give off such a lovely warmth. Have never tried cooking with one but I believe they do wonderful roasts.

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Well -today there's a lovely smell of roast lamb in the kitchen. No mint sauce though. I managed to bone it quite well myself and have made a stuffing with dried apricots. It will be served with baked potatoes and roasted buternut squash and it's own gravy. Special treat for after - Christmas pudding with brandy cream. The puddings arrived in the post the other day courtesy of one of my friends!