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Old 07-02-2012, 20:29
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When cooking a Sunday Roast do you all stick to the 'traditional' roasts?

What I mean by this is do you have each meat with just its traditional accompaniment 'Roast Beef and Yorkshires' or 'Chicken with stuffing' and 'Pork and crackling'

Or do you go 'All In' and have every accompaniment possible.

I'm an all in kinda bloke and my roast dinner will usually consist of the following;
[LIST][*]Roast Meat[*]Yorkshires[*]Stuffing[*]Roast Potatoes[*]Mash or Dauphinoise Potatoes[*]Roast Veg (Carrots, Parsnips, Peppers & Onions)[*]Mini Sausages in Bacon[*]Multiple Condiments[*]Lashings of Gravy[/LIST]
Can't wait till Sunday now after writing that
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Old 07-02-2012, 20:37
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Our family is a bit of a mishmash.

Yorkshires, stuffing and mint sauce with all meats.
Apple sauce with chicken, turkey and pork.
Don't usually have cranberry but if there was some there it again would be with any white meat.

I only have roasties but other family members have combos of roasted, boiled and mashed.

We don't have the mini sausages apart from Christmas. Usually the same with parsnips.
Never had dauphinois or onions & peppers with any roast.

Peas have to be marrowfat on my families dinners although I do like garden peas.
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Old 07-02-2012, 20:50
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Fairly traditional. We don't always have a roast - sometimes we'll have a casserole. We always have Yorkshire puddings and roast potatoes, with about 3 other veg. and proper gravy made with meat juices and stock / veg. cooking water.
Chicken with stuffing and cranberry sauce, beef with horseradish everytime. Don't eat pork or lamb.
I personally don't make dauphinois potatoes if gravy is in the meal - funny mix that !
Sausages wrapped in bacon only at Christmas.
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Old 07-02-2012, 21:04
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No matter what meat we have,I do Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes, new potatoes, 3 veg & gravy. At Christmas I go all out with everything then have the leftovers the following day as a fry up
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Old 07-02-2012, 21:58
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I think I should come to all your houses for Sunday lunch and then I can present an award for Best DS Sunday Dinner 2012.

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Old 07-02-2012, 22:24
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I always have stuffing, yorkshire and mint sauce on my roasts no matter what meat we have.
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Old 07-02-2012, 22:51
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Seaside lady - trust me the combo or creamy dauphinoise, meat and gravy in a mouthful is bloody Devine....must be the combo of potatoe cheese and gravy...which I suppose is why chips, cheese and gravy is so popular!!

I'll take a picture next time I put the Sunday spread on.
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Old 07-02-2012, 22:52
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So what makes the christmas dinner so special, if you have all the same stuff with any sunday roast ? Bread sauce maybe ?
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Old 07-02-2012, 22:55
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People and a lot of pubs have cauliflower cheese on their roasts, so why not dauphinoise?
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Old 07-02-2012, 23:00
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So what makes the christmas dinner so special, if you have all the same stuff with any sunday roast ? Bread sauce maybe ?
Oh Christmas is grander!! With a lot more expensive ingredients!!

Usually for Christmas I'll do a three meat roast which has a 4 rib of beef, glazed goose and ham.

You also get sausage meat and cranberry stuffing.

Roast potatoes in goose fat

And so on etc

Basically it's a Sunday roast with the volume and expense cracked way up!!
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Old 07-02-2012, 23:06
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Regardless of the meat, we always have roasties and Yorkshires, often mash too, then it's usually carrots, peas, broccoli, green beans and sometimes cabbage. I love roasted onions done in the tin with the meat. I usually have mint sauce too irrespective of the meat, and there's got to be plenty of thick gravy.

My stepmum always served sweetcorn with a Sunday dinner, and if my mum or Granny are going all out there will also be cauliflower cheese and warm lettuce or it could be cabbage I can't remember, with vinegar on!!
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Old 07-02-2012, 23:17
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Yorkshires only with beef, stuffing with chicken and pork, veg is normally similar no matter which meat
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Old 07-02-2012, 23:39
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We always have yorkies with a Sunday dinner, it doesn't matter what the roast meat is. Sometimes we have roast spuds sometimes mashed, sometimes new potatoes when in season and sometimes a mix of any two. Veg - a favourite is carrots, cauli and broccoli with cheese sauce. Green beans are popular as is cabbage and leeks. Whatever veg is in season also gets done so we do have some unusual seasonal variations. For some reason if we have a leg of lamb then dauphinoise not roast are first choice with roasties on the side.

Sunday dinner is an occasion in our home as it is usually the only meal during a week where all of us will be at home at the same time.

Any left overs - not common - veg becomes a sort of veggie bake with any cheese sauce and spuds and whatever is left of the meat for a meal for one or maybe two of us on Monday.

Oh and if we have chicken the carcass is used to make soup. Lamb bones mean the Combat Corgis get a treat.
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Old 08-02-2012, 12:40
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MUST have roast spuds and parsnips (never have any other kind of potato with a roast).

Probably have Yorky Pud.

Beef must have either horseradish sauce or mustard.
Pork must have crackling.
Will certainly have mint sauce with sheep, and maybe with chicken as well - depends what else it's cooked with.
Often cook some chorizo with the chicken.
Roasted garlic can also be great - especially with lamb - maybe not with beef.
Ginger is very good with beef (chop itfine and sprinkle ot insert into the meat)>
Other vegetables can vary, if there at all.

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Old 08-02-2012, 14:41
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This thread reminds me of being in Turkey over Christmas I'm a veggie but still love dinners with roast quorn slice, veggie gravy etc.
Anyhow, out shopping on what would have been our Boxing day I spied some Brussels sprouts and bought them just to try but my husband reckoned he'd buy a chicken to roast so I could make a dinner for him, his mother, brother and use soya for me.
I made a beautiful mash, assorted veg, roast potatoes, stuffing - the lot!
Hubby, who has lived here longer than he did over there gulped it down. As for the MIL & brother in law, well I might as well have poisoned them! They hate potatoes, they gravy was apparently 'strange' well they lookedike they had a death sentence hanging over them with my MIL muttering on about yoghurt being the best sauce in the world! Whe I love yoghurt roast dinners don't call hor it IMO!
Anyhow, we left the food there as we didn't like to take food back - the next day we were given leek casserole cooked by MIL we we ate. Then my husband said "where's she put the meal we cooked"? We looked high & low until in the end he had to ask - silly us, she'd put it all under the table in their 'parlour'! Hence it all went in the bin!
I could have gone berserk at the waste! I know I'm veggie but I eat any veggie food she cooks - she won't even try! Parsley in he most adventurous herb!
Oh, but she'll eat my cakes!
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Old 08-02-2012, 17:47
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Seaside lady - trust me the combo or creamy dauphinoise, meat and gravy in a mouthful is bloody Devine....must be the combo of potatoe cheese and gravy...which I suppose is why chips, cheese and gravy is so popular!!

I'll take a picture next time I put the Sunday spread on.
I'd only heard of that combo in last couple of years. Saw it on a couple of US programs.
In Canada and the Northern US it is called Poutine and at other places in the US it is sometimes refered to as Disco Fries.

Never knew it was popular in the UK. Maybe it is outside of the North East.
We usually go for either chips & gravy or chips cheese & garlic sauce.


I tried it last year as it was ok but I think i'll stick to chips cheese and garlic sauce
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Old 08-02-2012, 18:13
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Seaside lady - trust me the combo or creamy dauphinoise, meat and gravy in a mouthful is bloody Devine....must be the combo of potatoe cheese and gravy...which I suppose is why chips, cheese and gravy is so popular!!

I'll take a picture next time I put the Sunday spread on.
Well I'll have to take your word for it Dazza, I just couldn't eat potatoes/chips with cheese and gravy on them - what a mess
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Old 08-02-2012, 18:22
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Well I'll have to take your word for it Dazza, I just couldn't eat potatoes/chips with cheese and gravy on them - what a mess
There is no cheese on Dauphinoise potatoes. Cream yes, cheese no
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Old 08-02-2012, 19:37
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You put cheese on top though Chatte lol a nice bit of gouda does me.
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Old 08-02-2012, 19:51
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I'd only heard of that combo in last couple of years. Saw it on a couple of US programs.
In Canada and the Northern US it is called Poutine and at other places in the US it is sometimes refered to as Disco Fries.

Never knew it was popular in the UK. Maybe it is outside of the North East.
We usually go for either chips & gravy or chips cheese & garlic sauce.


I tried it last year as it was ok but I think i'll stick to chips cheese and garlic sauce
How far north are you Degs? I'm I'm west Yorkshire and its quite popular round here! Although I'm with you on the garlic sauce front..everything tastes better with garlic in lol

Seaside lady - you think that's messy, when I was a sous chef the entire kitchen went through a phase of havin chips, cheese, gravy and Marie rose sauce for dinner...it worked surprisingly well!

Lachatta - it might not be the traditional way but I always cook my dauphinoise as follows; a layer of sliced pots, thinly sliced onions, a layer of cheese, a blob of garlic. Repeat this 2-3 times and then pour over plenty of cream, top off wih more cheese and leave to cook very slowly for about 3 hours...unimaginable taste sensation!
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Old 08-02-2012, 20:10
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Although potatos dauphinoise is beautiful and fits great with a chop, chicken breast or steak it just isn't right for a roast.
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Old 09-02-2012, 18:43
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How far north are you Degs? I'm I'm west Yorkshire and its quite popular round here! Although I'm with you on the garlic sauce front..everything tastes better with garlic in lol
I'm a bit further north that you. HUFC is the clue
Chips cheese & garlic is a staple around here. Has to be proper garlic SAUCE though and not garlic mayo.
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Old 09-02-2012, 18:56
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I'm a bit further north that you. HUFC is the clue
Chips cheese & garlic is a staple around here. Has to be proper garlic SAUCE though and not garlic mayo.
It really was staring me in the face wasn't it

We only get garlic mayo round here unfortunately, can you buy any garlic sauce from the supermarkets?
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Old 09-02-2012, 19:22
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It really was staring me in the face wasn't it

We only get garlic mayo round here unfortunately, can you buy any garlic sauce from the supermarkets?
No, just garlic mayo
It's easily made though. Probably Greek/Turkish/other Middle Eastern country has it's own name for it.
I use 1or 2 garlic cloves (minced), equal parts yoghurt and mayo (2 or 3 teaspoons), a little salt and lemon juice. A little water, milk or cream to thin it out.
Other additions can be a little sugar, mint sauce, parsley.
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Old 09-02-2012, 20:11
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Yorkshires with any roast for me!

I quite like mint sauce on all my roasts too, but I'm a mint sauce fiend.
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