Great piece! As I read this, I was thinking about my mum's cooking growing up - every Sunday she would do a full roast, and it was the one dinner a week we (my parents, my brother and me) were absolutely mandated to sit all together at the table with no screens or distractions - we all had to talk. Some Sundays we would sit there for hours and hours debating the week's events and fixing the world's wrongs.
It is one of my favourite memories growing up but it makes me think about how my mum was the one who would slave over the stove in a small kitchen all Sunday for us, while we enjoyed a day of rest, when she had already spent the week balancing work, 2 kids, ageing parents, everything else... probably because she felt she 'had to'... It was always an incredible meal and I don't think I'll ever come close to my mum's cooking abilities, but it makes me reflect on how I want to introduce the tradition of Sunday dinner differently to my own family in the future. Love this post!
Thank you so much for sharing this. It is really interesting how you want to include the Sunday roast dinner tradition in your home in the future because of how much of a family occasion it was when you were growing up. I know exactly what you mean. Now with four teenagers who are all over the place during the week, it’s usually the only meal where we sit down as a family each week and we always say grace (the only time in the week we do that)! I am not the best cook nor do I enjoy it so my husband mainly cooks but now the girls have to take turns peeling the potatoes for the roasties! Sometimes we take a Sunday off and have pizza or something easier but the tradition of eating together is always there. I love how you remember how much it meant in the past. Thank you for replying!
I am in my slow cooker PRIME and I appreciated every single word of this - especially, I confess, the recipe at the end 🙃 (I also might come to your mums and tots because I like to hop around when it gets monotonous...like a pub crawl but unfortunately not at all like a pub crawl)
You’d be most welcome to pub crawl at Orangefield. Sometimes it’s a relief to see new faces and swap new recipes!! I could definitely be more accurate with that brisket recipe but honestly dousing it some form of those ingredients will produce a lovely shreddable meat in a BBQ sauce. We never do it the same twice!
Great piece! As I read this, I was thinking about my mum's cooking growing up - every Sunday she would do a full roast, and it was the one dinner a week we (my parents, my brother and me) were absolutely mandated to sit all together at the table with no screens or distractions - we all had to talk. Some Sundays we would sit there for hours and hours debating the week's events and fixing the world's wrongs.
It is one of my favourite memories growing up but it makes me think about how my mum was the one who would slave over the stove in a small kitchen all Sunday for us, while we enjoyed a day of rest, when she had already spent the week balancing work, 2 kids, ageing parents, everything else... probably because she felt she 'had to'... It was always an incredible meal and I don't think I'll ever come close to my mum's cooking abilities, but it makes me reflect on how I want to introduce the tradition of Sunday dinner differently to my own family in the future. Love this post!
Thank you so much for sharing this. It is really interesting how you want to include the Sunday roast dinner tradition in your home in the future because of how much of a family occasion it was when you were growing up. I know exactly what you mean. Now with four teenagers who are all over the place during the week, it’s usually the only meal where we sit down as a family each week and we always say grace (the only time in the week we do that)! I am not the best cook nor do I enjoy it so my husband mainly cooks but now the girls have to take turns peeling the potatoes for the roasties! Sometimes we take a Sunday off and have pizza or something easier but the tradition of eating together is always there. I love how you remember how much it meant in the past. Thank you for replying!
I am in my slow cooker PRIME and I appreciated every single word of this - especially, I confess, the recipe at the end 🙃 (I also might come to your mums and tots because I like to hop around when it gets monotonous...like a pub crawl but unfortunately not at all like a pub crawl)
You’d be most welcome to pub crawl at Orangefield. Sometimes it’s a relief to see new faces and swap new recipes!! I could definitely be more accurate with that brisket recipe but honestly dousing it some form of those ingredients will produce a lovely shreddable meat in a BBQ sauce. We never do it the same twice!