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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

Never had it. The name puts me off frankly.

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

Antyway they come, large or small. With a main meal with gravy. With butter and sugar With jam.........................oohh drat it, I'm drooling again. Norah

I don't know about those sort of "roasties". We need Bryan, master chef, to help

Just don't mess with the roasties. D. Longman M.D Roast Potato Appreciation Society

lol :)

Donna, they are pre cooked and you pop them in the oven at 200 for 3 mins, very nice and no mess, the real thing is best but these are a close second :)

I love my mother in laws yorkshire pudding. she makes it in a roast pan and it rises on the side and become crispy and the centre is like a pudding nice and soft. I don't compete with her pud and thus DANIEL LONGMAN buy Aunt Bessies LOL Much happiness Debi

roast potatoes.. yum yum yum

If I, a mere man, can cook them, so can anyone. so there. :-P

lol Donna, try them out :)

WHAT! Not bothered about "the potatoes"? How can you say such a thing? The Roast Potatoes are what makes the meal! The crispyness, the golden colour the falvour! wouldn't you agree Bryan???

Small and golden and crispy, with roast beef and gravy! Agree with Paul, homemade is best!!