I have just served up a really thick vegetable soup for my husband. As he was eating he said “this is what you call real food”. Vegetable soup!! My mother would have turned in her grave if she had known what I was serving up. Sunday dinner, EVERY Sunday dinner, was roast of some sort, baked potatoes, veg and often Yorkshire pudding (regardless of the meat).
Ah well - times have changed, thank goodness.😂
Homemade vegetable soup is delicious Constance,l enjoy it with whole meal bread and pat’e,just as nourishing as a Sunday roast.
Times have changed - and appetites as you get older!
Roast lunch is lovely, but when there's only two (or one in my case) it's just too much cooking!
I do sometimes do my own version with just a chicken breast or a chop or a steak, but not every Sunday.
Still doing Sunday roast but there are 3 of us, think it's called tradition - sometimes we give it a miss but then keep thinking what we've missed.... . As you say as we get older might not be as enthusiastic - my grandmother could not swallow meat as she got older..
How strange! I ate meat until a year ago then, for no apparent reason, went off it completely. Obviously I have well and truly joined the “older” group. (As if I didn’t know).😂😂
I still enjoy a Sunday roast , and good company with it, but better if somebody else does the cooking and clearing up!
Nothing beats the company, my son was ill yesterday and couldn't eat his dinner, I just looked at it and put it in the fridge couldn't throw it as so much effort had gone into it, even if it gets thrown today it lived a little longer...
There is no reason why you cannot freeze your plate of Sunday Roast. When I do a roast I make enough for 2 meals for my husband and I and freeze one each for another time. I keep back and freeze some of the stock and hey presto "fresh" gravy as well. Just defrost overnight in the fridge. Kind regards Jannie
That's lovely Jannie, somehow I knew someone would pick me up on that! 'My lot' will not eat frozen dinners! but same as you I do freeze the stock, when you've gone to the length of making a roast then I make sure there is plenty of stock for lashings of gravy - it makes a mid-week meal especially good or the following Sunday lunch if feeling lazy - great minds....
Around here the sunday din is next door's lawnmower and small aircraft from the local airdrome. These latter especially intrusive, one likes to cut it's engine and fall so far before it starts up again aaaah! Try ignoring that.
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You are obviously thoroughly Germanised...
I had that too, fortified by lentils. It did my whole system good. I have always made an event of Sunday dinner for the family, good food round the table together but everyone now has complex dietary requirements, including me now, that I think the lovely tradition will have to go.
I must be honest - I really miss that type of dinner, but the WORK entailed.!!! Never could make good roasted potatoes though.😏
I know what you mean - German potatoes need a different technique, even the "Mehlig-kochend" ones which you could expect to work! They just aren't the right consistency when they are done...
Nothing like a good homemade soup. I have a soup maker, which makes it a lot easier. Within 20 minutes you have a great soup chunky or smooth. Just the prep tages the time.
I don’t “prep” - straight to deep freeze gather any veg I can get my hands on, add a few new potatoes (in their jackets) pop in deep pan, add flavouring and ‘bingo’ 30 minutes later a delicious soup.😀
We've just had to buy another (small) freezer to accommodate my hubbys pots of homemade soup...they were taking over the main freezer! ...He also now uses a (christmas present) soup maker and goes into "production" every few days...Delicious though...just wish I could have the crusty bread with it, not quite the same somehow... Di
Yesterday my son asked us over for a meal which consisted of various forms of wheat with a few vegetables and fruit: homemade pizza with veggie topping (meat for the carnivores in the family), tossed green salad, two birthday cakes, celebrating two birthdays, one a pound cake with ice cream the other chocolate decorated with chocolate icing and nasturtium blossoms, and rhubarb pie. It all tasted delicious but I felt quite unwell for a while afterwards, not used to such a wheat carb overload! Plus sugar.
I love soup. One of my go to meals especially during the winter.
View from our window on Sunday night.
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