I love Sunday Dinner

What is traditional about Sunday dinner/lunch? Beef and Yorkshire pudding?

 

I can a sure you this is not my dinner today

What is tradition for me is Sunday dinner with any meat from Chicken, pork, beef or even a mumble sausage. Pork is my favourite roast, a nice loin of pork from our local butcher, slow cooked.

As a youngest every Sunday I would stand out our small kitchen watching mum cook Sunday dinner and when I final left home the first Sunday dinner I cooked mirrored how I had seen my mother do.

In fact one of the first arguments me and the wife (then girlfriend) had was now the cook the roast potatoes. Her mother like to part boil her potatoes and then put them in the meat fat to roast. While in the Ugarte corner, my mother with put them cold into the fat and cook them at way. I won the argument and ever since its been the Ugarte way, and I have never heard the wife complain.

Our dinners normally consist of … meat, stuffing, boiled potatoes, roasted potatoes, cabbage white/savoy carrots and peas. We add other vegetables’ from time to time and we are not unknown to throw on a Yorkshire pub if we feel like one. Yorkshire pubs are not just for beef in my book.

What can make or break your dinner is the gravy. Mum would mix it up in the meat tray, flour and two Oxo’s, always just two and no browning. I did it the same until the arrival of our electric cooker, so now we pour the fat juices in a saucepan, not the same. I have changed my gravy recipe, modified it to my taste.

I love mint and not just on lamb but every Sunday dinner. We would have it on the side in a cup and spoon it out but it was so frustrating. Then one Sunday I just said screw it and put a few dashes of vinegar into the gravy and a few spoons of mint sauce into it as well, eureka. Even mum gave me a nod to my ingenuity, high praise indeed.