Who carves the roast in your house?
Feb 5th 2012, 3:25 am
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Re: Who carves the roast in your house?
May I just say that I could just eat a roast dinner, I fancy a roast beef dinner complete with sprouts, swede, cabbage, gravy, peas and Yorkshires, with horseradish sauce, washed down with a glass of red wine.
A roast dinner always reminds me of Sundays whilst watching Eastenders on TV, with it being cold and wet outside and the windows steamed up from the oven being on so long and the veggies boiling.
Oh god I want a roast dinner!!!!!
A roast dinner always reminds me of Sundays whilst watching Eastenders on TV, with it being cold and wet outside and the windows steamed up from the oven being on so long and the veggies boiling.
Oh god I want a roast dinner!!!!!
Feb 5th 2012, 7:35 am
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Re: Who carves the roast in your house?
I cook, but I would never carve. That is Mr BS's job. 
Feb 5th 2012, 9:46 am
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Re: Who carves the roast in your house?
He cooks, he carves. If I cook he still carves. I'm awful at it, the roast looks like a massacre if I've taken a knife to it!
Feb 5th 2012, 10:19 am
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Re: Who carves the roast in your house?
A roast???? I stopped slaving over that sort of 'tradition' about 30 years ago. That's the sort of meal you have to go out for if you insist on wanting one in our house.
Feb 5th 2012, 10:34 am
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Feb 5th 2012, 11:12 am
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Re: Who carves the roast in your house?
He aways carves............it's the way it has always been and shall aways be done...traditional like 
Feb 5th 2012, 12:42 pm
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Feb 5th 2012, 12:50 pm
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Re: Who carves the roast in your house?
We both carve depending upon who's doing what at the time. We share the cooking, though since work slowed down for me I've been doing more of it.
I enjoy cooking, it's therapeutic, the dog also loves it when I cook, he sits patiently at his food bowl waiting for me to throw the fat trimmings or scraps into it.
I enjoy cooking, it's therapeutic, the dog also loves it when I cook, he sits patiently at his food bowl waiting for me to throw the fat trimmings or scraps into it.
Feb 5th 2012, 12:59 pm
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Re: Who carves the roast in your house?
I do a roast every Sunday and I carve, always have done.
Feb 5th 2012, 1:04 pm
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Re: Who carves the roast in your house?
I do know I get lumbered with the washing up more often than not
Feb 5th 2012, 1:47 pm
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Feb 5th 2012, 7:59 pm
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Re: Who carves the roast in your house?
May I just say that I could just eat a roast dinner, I fancy a roast beef dinner complete with sprouts, swede, cabbage, gravy, peas and Yorkshires, with horseradish sauce, washed down with a glass of red wine.
A roast dinner always reminds me of Sundays whilst watching Eastenders on TV, with it being cold and wet outside and the windows steamed up from the oven being on so long and the veggies boiling.
Oh god I want a roast dinner!!!!!
A roast dinner always reminds me of Sundays whilst watching Eastenders on TV, with it being cold and wet outside and the windows steamed up from the oven being on so long and the veggies boiling.
Oh god I want a roast dinner!!!!!
This morning I am nil by mouth until my abdominal ultrasound -had to get up at 5am to take my painkillers and meds. Why am I torturing myself by looking at a food thread??????
Feb 5th 2012, 9:12 pm
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Re: Who carves the roast in your house?
..and when we have the IL's over with all the trimmings as happenes alarmingly regularly its usually me who cooks and carves and them that clean up afterwards - which is a great deal from my POV as roasting dishes and plates for 14 people makes far more cleanup than fits in the dishwasher!
(For the record my pork roasts are legendary
and the butcher regularly gives me an extra sheet of 'spare' pig skin to ensure I have the required 3 acres of crackling thats required to keep everyone smiling)
Feb 5th 2012, 9:26 pm
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Re: Who carves the roast in your house?
Odd - I cook roast dinners because they are so much easier in terms of labour required than any other kind of cooking?!
..and when we have the IL's over with all the trimmings as happenes alarmingly regularly its usually me who cooks and carves and them that clean up afterwards - which is a great deal from my POV as roasting dishes and plates for 14 people makes far more cleanup than fits in the dishwasher!
(For the record my pork roasts are legendary and the butcher regularly gives me an extra sheet of 'spare' pig skin to ensure I have the required 3 acres of crackling thats required to keep everyone smiling)
..and when we have the IL's over with all the trimmings as happenes alarmingly regularly its usually me who cooks and carves and them that clean up afterwards - which is a great deal from my POV as roasting dishes and plates for 14 people makes far more cleanup than fits in the dishwasher!
(For the record my pork roasts are legendary
and the butcher regularly gives me an extra sheet of 'spare' pig skin to ensure I have the required 3 acres of crackling thats required to keep everyone smiling)OH carves, he's much better at it. It's a blue job in our house although OH loves cooking, and baking much to my childrens delight!
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Feb 5th 2012, 9:29 pm
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Re: Who carves the roast in your house?
I could have written all that word for word, with the exception, if it doesn't fit in the dishwasher on the first lap, it will on the 2nd. I do not wash up by hand!
OH carves, he's much better at it. It's a blue job in our house although OH loves cooking, and baking much to my childrens delight!
OH carves, he's much better at it. It's a blue job in our house although OH loves cooking, and baking much to my childrens delight!
I've never thought of a roast as 'tradition', it's just a bloody good meal that everyone loves.
