It's no secret that in my house I don't do much cooking. I can make a pretty good chilli and I can pop a pizza in the oven, but that is pretty much all I do. It's not that I can't cook, it's that Stuart is so good at it, and more importantly he enjoys it. He cooks, and I get the great task of doing the dishes, so it's pretty fair. However this means, in all our years together, I have never ever cooked a Sunday lunch, so this was my task for the week.
I started by deciding we should have some beef brisket as the meat. Stuart has told me many times that the most difficult thing about cooking a dinner is the timings, so I picked brisket because I could slow cook it, and just keep it warm when I focused on everything else.
It was just a case of adding some salt and pepper and popping it in the over for a couple of hours. And ta-da, it was done.
Whilst the beef was resting, I peeled and part boiled (par-boiled?) some potatoes, and prepped the veg.
So far this whole cooking thing was turning out to be pretty easy. With the potatoes part boiled I sprayed them with some oil and popped them in the oven to roast. I also made up some stuffing balls (using a packet I'm afraid) and they went in the oven too.
Finally I boiled the veg and we were almost ready. When we were buying the ingredients I was a little worried that my whole dinner would be terrible so I brought some ready made, massive Yorkshire puddings. In hindsight I definitely didn't need them, but they did make the whole meal more impressive.
Turns out, making a Sunday lunch isn't so difficult. That also means that I will probably have to make dinner more often now, but I did enjoy it, and it also means I don't have to do any dishes! A win-win situation.
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