On the subject of Sunday roast, we still have a Sunday dinner at home, with different meat every week. Yesterday we had chicken, last week we had beef, before that lamb and before that pork – nice and crispy crackling, just as I like it. We always have Yorkshire pudding (well we would have to include that, living in Yorkshire 😀 ) and mashed and roasted potatoes, different veg every week – brocolli, cauliflower, cabbage or peas. No beans because I can’t eat them. Occasionally we have baked fruit with creme fraiche as a dessert, and I just love that! At Christmas we have guinea fowl, at New Year we have pheasant and sometimes we have possins as well.

If we had guests we would do them a full roast with meat and a dessert, and of course some wine, whatever sort would depend on what meat we had. We never drink beer with a roast dinner, or any dinner at all.