Sunday roast ideas - not beef, lamb, (chicken or pork)!

[warp9]

Yeah, limiting I know! Family coming round on Sunday and my sister in law doesn't eat red meat, so we always have pork or chicken. Now I like a nice pork or chicken roast, but wondered if there was something else. Either:
a) Just not one of these
b) An amazing way of doing chicken or pork that's not a standard roast.
Cheers
Warp

[warp9]

Hi, thanks for the replies. Some good tips and like the idea of partridge or pheasant, but not sure where to get one at fairly short notice, duck and goose are out - too 'red meaty' for her liking. Not sure about fish either, more a mid week dinner?!

A big fat belly roast pork wins it so far!

[warp9]

Nice ham - good call. No she doesn't have to eat the same meat, was previously thinking of lamb and pork (we had beef last Sunday), but it's currently a decision between belly pork or ham. I'll have to make an executive decision on this as I know the mrs will choose the ham - belly pork too fatty, blah, blah!

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LordGrover said:

I suppose her reasoning for excluding red meat decides what is acceptable or not, but as several have said above, maybe OP missed it - pork is usually considered a red meat by health professionals and the like.
E.G. Red meat – such as beef, lamb and pork – can form part of a healthy diet.

No I didn't miss it! Just a bit technical for my simplistic view. I always tended to see pork as a lighter meat, plus my SIL will eat it.

[warp9]

Well I ended up going for pork belly. £10 got me a good sized hunk with ribs from Morrisons. Made a wet rub marinade from toasted fennel and peppercorn, ground up and added to salt mashed garlic, sage (wanted to use thyme but forgot it), lemon and oil. Cooked it over a raised bet of onion, celery, carrot, garlic and stock. Lots of salt on the scored skin, a 20 min blast at max heat, then turn down to 180c. Cooked for about 1hr 15mins. Made gravy out of cooked veg and stock.

Delicious, plus got the bonus ribs before serving!

Thanks for all the suggestions. My SIL also announced that she has started eating roast beef - welcome to the dark side!