Sunday Dinner

The Bollox

are there many boardsies that have a proper dinner at lunch time on a Sunday (a.k.a a Sunday Dinner/Lunch). I only ask because not many of my friends do, and I feel it is probably the best dinner of the week (unless that week happens to be Christmas week). So how many of you still enjoy the luxury of a proper feed on a Sunday?

bluto63

We do it very rarely. They can be nice

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I do.

There is currently a chicken in the oven, with stuffing. Some potatoes are roasting too. Carrots chopped and waiting to go on, some spinach too, probably do some boiled potatoes aswell.

Oh, and gravy.

Then for dessert some Romantica or similar I Scream based thing, perhaps Vienetta.

MrJoeSoap

Marts wrote:

are there many boardsies that have a proper dinner at lunch time on a Sunday (a.k.a a Sunday Dinner/Lunch). I only ask because not many of my friends do, and I feel it is probably the best dinner of the week (unless that week happens to be Christmas week). So how many of you still enjoy the luxury of a proper feed on a Sunday?

I do. But I have dinner at around 1.30 every day.

Oral Slang

Never understood the logic of having your Sunday dinner at lunchtime.. I'm never really hungry at that time. In my house, we always had Sunday dinner at the same time as every other day - ie between 5 & 6..

Used to hate it when I'd be having it in someone elses house & they'd serve up it 1 or 2 and you'd only be out of bed an hour or two!

Rabies

Will someone invite me for dinner. Haven't had a proper sunday dinner in years

Faith

I'd fúcking love one. I've been fantasising about one for years now. If there was more than just me and my vegetarian flatmate, I might make one, but there's no point if it's just for me .

Rabies

Get cooking Faith.

Veg soup for starters, with some brown bread.
Tender roast beef, gravy, roast potatoes and what ever else is fits on the plate.
Oh, I'm a sucker for ice cream and jelly for dessert.


Run to the kitchen. Good girl

Throw your flatmate a carrot.

Ruu_Old

Very rare, its a shame though, good times.

Lust4Life

In my house it's not necessarily a Sunday Dinner, but on the weekend I do try to make a real home cooked dinner sometime during the weekend.

Had ham dinner with all the trimmings yeaterday. Today we'll pick on the leftovers.

DEmeant0r

Faith wrote:

I'd fúcking love one. I've been fantasising about one for years now. If there was more than just me and my vegetarian flatmate, I might make one, but there's no point if it's just for me .

you have weird fantasies...;)

Faith

Rabies wrote:

Get cooking Faith.

Veg soup for starters, with some brown bread.
Tender roast beef, gravy, roast potatoes and what ever else is fits on the plate.
Oh, I'm a sucker for ice cream and jelly for dessert.


Run to the kitchen. Good girl

Throw your flatmate a carrot.

I've already had the soup, yay me! I'd prefer chicken to beef, though.

My flatmate is currently making cookies and pumpkin cobbler for Hallowe'en, so that's keeping me happy .

Although, I make a total mess every time I try to make roast potatoes. They're one of life's great pleasures, but I can't figure them out!

BlueSpiral

Every Sunday. 3 courses around the dining table.

And we always seem to have some form of potato, be it roast, boil or mash.:p

tSubh Dearg

We ususally have some sort of roast on a Sunday (it's dad's day to cook and it's what he does best). Tonight I believe it will be venison with potatoes and red cabbage...mmmmmmmmmmmm.

Oh and Faith here is a recipe for fool proof roasties:

Peel your potatoes (I find roosters or one of the other floury types best) and put into a pot of cold water. Heat. When water reaches boiling point set a timer for ten minutes.

After the 10 mins, drain off the water and toss the pototes in the pot with the lid on to "bruise" them.

Heat fat in the oven (marge or beef dripping or olive oil) in a roasting tin or earthenware dish, when just starting to sizzle put pototes into the dish and toss in the fat. Make sure you add the fluffy bits that came off in the shaking as they'll make crunchy bits.

Put in hot oven for at least an hour or until brown and crunchy. Gorgeous!

Ruu_Old

Dinner at tSubh's place it is then. *rubs hands* \o/

tSubh Dearg

Oh noes! How will I explain 70,000 randomers turning up on our doorstep expecting to be fed?? :eek:

daiixi

I never cook properly anymore as I'm only cooking for one. We never had Sunday lunch growing up but would have a proper sit down dinner be it roast or something else on a Saturday night in the dining room using the good china and glasses.

Rabies

Dinner at tSubh's place it is then. *rubs <insert body part>* \o/ :eek:

Think it has already pushed the 80k mark tSubh.

Do you have enough chairs?

tSubh Dearg

Rabies wrote:

Do you have enough chairs?

I think there's only really chairs enough for the admins, everyone else is going to have to sit on the floor or out in the garden (there might be a couple of deckchair type things out there).

Ho-Hum

Its in the oven as we speak I just hope my poor hungover body can handle it

Fast_Mover

We always have a roast every Sunday. Sunday doesn't feel the same if we don't. Besides my mother loves us all sitting together for any dinner..family is very important to her.
We just had roast potatoes, roast beef, carrots,, tunips and gravy..yumm! Then homemade dessert for afters.
No wonder I love coming home for the weekends:)

monkeyfudge

Bleh... I can't stand this type of food... and I don't get on too well with my family either... so... eh... no I don't do the whole Sunday dinner thing.

deisemum

We've a roast dinner with the leftovers the following day at least once a week, sometimes twice as in roast chicken one day and a couple of days later roast beef or lamb with all the trimmings.

I prefer having the roast dinner during the week as I work from home and then I have the option of doing something quicker at the weekend so I'm not tied to the house waiting for something that takes a couple of hours.

We often go out for something to eat over the weekend (not every weekend). Hubby will often cook the Sunday dinner. He's gone to get an organic chicken at the moment. He plans on making a banoffee pie for dessert.

Since we became parents we try to have more family meals than when it was just the two of us.

angeldelight

This thread is making me hungry

We quite often have a full roast dinner on a Saturday.. Sundays tend to be a bit "fend for yourself and have a sandwich or sausage roll" in my house!

My favourite is roast lamb, roast potatoes, carrots & parsnips mashed, peas (not mushy), LOADS of gravy mmmmmm. Although roast chicken isn't bad either as it has my next favourite thing - stuffing!

Unfortunately my parents are in NY this weekend so I'm home alone and am heating a chicken curry healthy eating ready meal thing...

Lust4Life

I'm craving Homemade Vegetable Soup!
Gonna have to make some today.
Love soups in autumn!

BlueSpiral

tSubh Dearg wrote:

I think there's only really chairs enough for the admins, everyone else is going to have to sit on the floor or out in the garden (there might be a couple of deckchair type things out there).

I bagsy all of tSubh's deck-chairs!
It's kind of hard to believe people don't really have Sunday dinners anymore, it's taboo not to have a Sunday lunch in my house. Probably the best part of them is my dad's stuffing, but we haven't had that in ages. It's going to be hard if this tradition dies.

Mossy Monk

Marts wrote:

So how many of you still enjoy the luxury of a proper feed on a Sunday?

not since i moved out of home. and even then it was a rareity

Mushy

The one Sunday Im not having a roast...makes me so jealous. Will usually have a roast chicken mid-week, then another roast on weekend. Loads of spud used in this family, all roast and mash nearly everyday

Faith

tSubh Dearg wrote:

We ususally have some sort of roast on a Sunday (it's dad's day to cook and it's what he does best). Tonight I believe it will be venison with potatoes and red cabbage...mmmmmmmmmmmm.

Oh and Faith here is a recipe for fool proof roasties:

Peel your potatoes (I find roosters or one of the other floury types best) and put into a pot of cold water. Heat. When water reaches boiling point set a timer for ten minutes.

After the 10 mins, drain off the water and toss the pototes in the pot with the lid on to "bruise" them.

Heat fat in the oven (marge or beef dripping or olive oil) in a roasting tin or earthenware dish, when just starting to sizzle put pototes into the dish and toss in the fat. Make sure you add the fluffy bits that came off in the shaking as they'll make crunchy bits.

Put in hot oven for at least an hour or until brown and crunchy. Gorgeous!

Nice one tSubh, cheers! Roosters are really hard to get here, though, so I'll have to put a bit of work into finding them.

Rabies

Well, I just finished my Sunday dinner. Tayto cheese & onion sandwich and a bottle of Coke

Karoma

Moved from AH - feel free to bounce back.