What makes a great roast dinner?

[suityou01]

Roast chicken every time for me (i'm lucky that the farm i get my chicken from hangs them for a few days to get more flavour http://www.franklinsfarm.co.uk/index.asp), chatenay carrots, crispy roasties and a white wine gravy.

I cook mine in my kettle bbq, stuffed with bruised whole heads of garlic and herbs, baste in olive oil, season and that's it. You end up with lovely moist flavoursome meat, crispy skin (the best bit) and a tray fill of lovely juices, whch can be used for gravy or to dip bread in.

setting off now, should be with you in about an hour.

[norrahe]

setting off now, should be with you in about an hour.

I've already had me lunch

Shame, I couldn't be bothered driving to the farm yesterday to pick me up some chuck.

Next week and none of you are invited

[SuperZ]

Roast chicken every time for me (i'm lucky that the farm i get my chicken from hangs them for a few days to get mankey http://www.franklinsfarm.co.uk/index.asp), chatenay carrots, crispy roasties and a white wine gravy.

I cook mine in my kettle bbq, stuffed with bruised whole heads of garlic and herbs, baste in olive oil, season and that's it. You end up with lovely moist flavoursome meat, crispy skin (the best bit) and a tray fill of lovely chicken fat, whch can be used to block arteries.

Sounds nice

[norrahe]

Sounds nice

life's too short!

[minestrone]

That's the roast in the oven.

[d000hg]

Vote for roast parsnips, lovely. Oven-roasted carrots are also great but it's perhaps a little over the top if you don't have any greens.

Mash + roasties is also a wonderful combination... you have to have the roasties but there's nothing like good mashed potato.

[ForkBoy]

What MAKES a roast dinner, I put it to the panel.

Stuffing. It's not a roast without stuffing. Got to be gravy, roast parsnips, roast spuds (in goose fat of course) and yorkshires, but stuffing is what makes the job complete.
I've been in Bangalore too long. I would happily kill everyone in this office for a decent Sunday roast, or a bacon sarnie with HP sauce ...