Roasts - do you?

[JLeigh29]

I forgot to say that my fave part of doing a roast (any kind) is all the wonderful veges that go with it - taters (with herbs and garlic), sweet potatoes, parsnip, pumpkin, rosemary carrots (cut into sticks and wrap in alfoil with butter and a sprig of rosemary), onion and steamed greens. Yummo! Does anyone else do anything special/different to accompany their roasts?

[MrsFabuloso]

I do one regularly, though not weekly~I should make more effort to do them, they are so easy! I love roast lamb, and pork, and chicken. But lamb is my fave. DH loves roast turkey, but I'm not too keen. Generally I just do boring old plain meat, no seasonings 'cept salt and pepper, though sometimes I will get creative and do rosmary, garlic, mustard...whatever depending on what meat we're having. I always make the gravey, apple sauce for pork, cranberry sauce for turkey, and often mint sauce for lamb. I've never made stuffing, I should try it one day, DH loves it! I always do heaps of roast veg- pumpkin, taties, sweet taties, carrot, onions. And have 2-3 other steamed veg too. Sometimes if I don't feel like roast veg I will do creamed potato bake.
This thread is inspiring me to do it more regularly, and with dessert. My girlfriend's mum used to do a chocolate self saucing pudding with her roasts, I used to love going to their house for sunday lunch after church!! YUM

[bon]

I make seasoning - which is basically like stuffing but cooked separately and then you slice it into little pieces and serve with the meat. I prefer that to stuffing - I just can't eat something that has been shoved inside a chicken's chest cavity! It's basically just fresh breadcrumbs (or sometimes I use the stuffing mix from a box if I am feeling lazy), lemon or orange rind, onion, melted butter, egg and mixed herbs. If I am cooking a chicken I usually just stuff some lemon or onion inside it, instead of stuffing.

[toomanyshoes]

I would love to do roast every week but I just havent had the time, we go through stages where its once a week for a few weeks, then nothing for months

Once things settle down and if/when we move I want to get back into the sunday roast thing.

my grandmother always did it and its nice to bring that into my new family