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My Hubby was a Yorkshireman, as a child he always had the Yorkshire Pudding with gravy before the Roast, yes it was really a filler. When I cooked Roast, he ate that first with the YP and had a seperate portion with gravy after!!! he loved his food. YP is also great with loads of golden syrup, definately reccomended seperate from the roast!! Lynda

Never had it. The name puts me off frankly.

Big toad fans in this house! Son age 6 eyes lit up this morning in Morrisons frozen aisle when he spotted the yorkshire pud sign! Like to make my own cos you can put extra sausages in. Has to be served with tons of onion gravy and roast spuds. Now Daniel I do love home made roasties and even though I say so myself, mine are the best I've ever tasted. BUT ... I am trying to lose a few pounds and home made means oil. So I have been having frozen ones. Have tried all the varieties - Aunt Bessie, Bisto, uncle tom cobley etc and the very best surprisingly enough are WeightWatchers! The other brands either come out like bullets or soggy, (and even before you cook them you can see the DRIPPING they are caked in) but the WW ones are crispy and fluffy, but with less fat! So now I just do my own on special occasions - Xmas, Easter, when we have guests etc. Moral - don't knock it til you've tried it! Daniel, who cooks your Roasties out of interest?? Hope its YOU!! Hope you have eaten by now Brian .... Maz. XX

Me? Ha ha ha ha. My Great nan when she was alive made the best Sunday dinners. We now go to my nan's house instead and she makes them but not as nice as what her mum made them. Occasionally my mum will cook and they are not as nice as her mother's Perhaps there is some sort of skill you learn as you get old regarding Sunday Roasts. One day my 5 year old sister will learn and i can go to her house.

oi whaddya mean learn as you get old?????????????

My experiences at eating suggests that the older the person the better the food, in my family at least.

Time you proved yourself wrong!!! Roast dins is SOOO easy! Thats why we usually have one every week - even in summer! Meat in tray - but raised up on a rack thingy - with water in bottom to keep it moist. Put a quartered onion on/around the joint. Cover with foil or lid and cook SLOW! 190 for 2 hours mebbe depending on size of joint. Spuds - boil till they are as you would eat them if you were having boiled spuds! Then bung them in a roasting tin with oil. Give a good shake and cook at the top of oven (about hour and half) - keep turning them every 20 mins or so. Bung veg on 20 mins before all ready. Bobs yer uncle etc If I can do it anyone can - not exactly Delia I'm afraid. Let us know how you get on ....... !!!! Maz. XX PS the worst bit is timing - just get someone to help carve and dish up - no shortage of volunteers cos the smell is like a magnet!

It's on my to do list. No...really it is.

I am waiting for all the experts on here to shoot me down in flames now!!!

I usually serve mine with the roast. Have to be swimming in gravy. Or like Lynda in Brighton with treacle for afters! Jeanette

Actually Joking apart re; age - ism I think daniel has a point . When I first had to cook the roast dinner for my hubby as a 20 yr old I had no Idea that a chicken should be basted and spuds par boiled . I thought it went in the oven and came out looking like Grans. To carve a chick you cut it qtrs right? LOL I never paid much attention to Mum or Gran's cooking I had no interest. But Gran's dinners are so much nicer than mum's and mum's is so much nicer than mine and i just know mine are much nicer than my 12 yr olds from Home eco at school LMAO!!

I love English roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, toad-in-the-hole, but................. I rarely roast my meat any more. I've been away too long I suppose! Anyway, looking forward to my pub lunch soon - 3 weeks to go and then I'll be in England. Sylvia

Please, a woman's job. Ho ho, JOKE!

Should i use a stuffing? If so which ones you reccomend?

Daniel Only cook roast potatoes/mash potato when 1 of my daughters turns up with the grandkids.My grandchildren are like you they wont have sunday dinner without roasties and they love my homemade yorkshire puds,doesn't matter what size they are.My grandchildren always say that my sunday dinners are better than what their mum cooks.so as you say Daniel age is experience,sounds better than old.LOL Sue

Daniel Biggest packet of PAXO you can find,but please don't stuff chicken/turkey as all the juices soak into the stuffing.If the chicken/turkey are not cooked properly there is a possibility of food poisoning.Put the stuffing in a square tin and pop it in the oven.Crispy on top and nice and soft underneath.YUMMY. Enjoy your meal. Sue

hi my granny had them with currents in and then spread treacle on them when they were cold always hated that myself luv mine hot and well gravied

had my dinner,thank goodness...daniel your SO cheeky! still,enjoy it now,as when you get older,you will soon see who rules the nest lol. love my yorkshire pudding crisp,on the outside,and fluffy in the middle...my gran jones used lard,think thats why it was so tasty. bryan. ps,its marions birthday tomorrow,dont tell anyone,its a secret lol.

psss, how old is she? whisper

Bryan did you have your yorkshires,What secret is that? put it on the board.marion won't mind. sue