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[Varche]

Serious question. Some good middle aged Spanish friends have expressed an interest in trying a traditional English Sunday lunch. Mrs V and I have been debating what to do for them.

So what do you do for friends or might you expect if invited including drinks/ starter (do people still do that?) and dessert?

[aaronjb]

Glass of sherry

Prawn cocktail to start and crack on with the wine

Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, roast parsnip, peas, gravy

Sticky toffee pudding & custard or rhubarb crumble & custard

Coffee & port

Food & alcohol induced coma.

(Well, that's how it was in my parents house, anyway.. repeat the coffee & port course 3-10 times)

[the alarming man]

any room at your parent this sunday

[aaronjb]

  That doesn't happen for sunday lunch anymore.. even Xmas dinner is smaller than that, now!

Well, the coffee & port bit still happens..

[Terbs]

Swmbo usually does...

Pears with Stilton, or Smoked Salmon, or Melon or Prawn Cocktail

Followed by the Roast Beef...or Roast Chicken, Roast potatoes, and veg, Yorkshire pudding

then Apple pie and Cream/Ice Cream, or a Crumble and Custard/cream/Ice Cream

Wine obviously. And coffee.

I keep well out of the way !!!!!!!!!!!!

Bit like Aarons....but that tells the way it is
 

[Kate]

Wow, I feel so hungry now.

[Kevin Wood]

Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, roast parsnip, peas, gravy

Absolutely pointless without horseradish sauce, of course.

[JamesV6CDX]

Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, roast parsnip, peas, gravy

Absolutely pointless without horseradish sauce, of course.

Agreed

[humbucker]

Sherry... prawn cocktail... port. Is this a 1970s-themed party? 

[humbucker]

Don't forget the fondue!

[Taxi_Driver]

When I visit my Mum, I always get homemade soup as a starter (quite easy to make if you go for a veggie soup)

Then its a roast meat/sprouts or leeks or cauliflower+brocolli(in a cheese sauce)/carrots/roast spuds/parsnips. Gravy is always made in meat roasting tray, so you get the juices from the roast included

Usually we skip dessert as were too full by then, but have known to have had something with custard 

[Varche]

Well you are bearing out my thoughts. Roasting joints aren't sold in Spain. You can ask a butcher to "do you one" so no problem there. I can get horseradish and Colmans mustard. Pan juice gravy (with wine added- no problem. Sprouts can get sometimes. Parsnips are really hard to get. Cualiflower cheese - great suggestion. I am ashamed to admit as a Yorkshireman that Yorkshire puddings are not my thing (why fill yourself up with batter when you can eat meat!) However for authenticity they may well feature.

So a few specific questions.

Starter. Do people really still have these in Britain? If so then some soup (cullenskink maybe).

Drinks. I am surprised no one has mentioned beer(not lager). I am prepared to try and hunt out some British tinned beer . Sherry. I have become a convert to sherry since coming to Spain. There is so much more to sherry than  Harveys Bristol cream. A nice summer drink is dry white sherry with lemonade 50:50.
Do people still have a bottle of red wine with Sunday lunch?

Dessert. Custard in "Birds Eye" format is unheard of here. So a dessert with custard might feature to be true to theme. I had been thinking of a cheesecake.

Gosh it is all a bit like the "Back in time for dinner " programme on BBC2 on a Tuesday!

[Taxi_Driver]

Well you are bearing out my thoughts. Roasting joints aren't sold in Spain. You can ask a butcher to "do you one" so no problem there. I can get horseradish and Colmans mustard. Pan juice gravy (with wine added- no problem. Sprouts can get sometimes. Parsnips are really hard to get. Cualiflower cheese - great suggestion. I am ashamed to admit as a Yorkshireman that Yorkshire puddings are not my thing (why fill yourself up with batter when you can eat meat!) However for authenticity they may well feature.

So a few specific questions.

Starter. Do people really still have these in Britain? If so then some soup (cullenskink maybe).

Drinks. I am surprised no one has mentioned beer(not lager). I am prepared to try and hunt out some British tinned beer . Sherry. I have become a convert to sherry since coming to Spain. There is so much more to sherry than  Harveys Bristol cream. A nice summer drink is dry white sherry with lemonade 50:50.
Do people still have a bottle of red wine with Sunday lunch?

Dessert. Custard in "Birds Eye" format is unheard of here. So a dessert with custard might feature to be true to theme. I had been thinking of a cheesecake.

Gosh it is all a bit like the "Back in time for dinner " programme on BBC2 on a Tuesday!

Highlight no 1 .....Red meat ...red wine ....white meat...white wine...usually....but its your preference 

Highlight no 2 ....Birds Eye make fishy type things....think your thinking of Birds...they make custard....but I wouldn't have it with a cheesecake....maybe apple pie or similar.....cheesecake needs cream 

[Varche]

Aye aye Captain.   BIRDS it is not Birds Eye! been a long time (over ten years since I have even seen Birds custard)

I am really looking for what people consider to be a true Sunday lunch.

[EMD]

Aye aye Captain.   BIRDS it is not Birds Eye! been a long time (over ten years since I have even seen Birds custard)

I am really looking for what people consider to be a true Sunday lunch.

You got to have Custard with every meal