This is the ultimate roast dinner menu for a cold weekend

It's the weekend. In the middle of winter. The perfect time for a family roast. And the best part is, if you double up on the some the quantities you can set yourself up for an easy week of dinners with all the left-overs.

So let's get into it with our favourite recipes below, and if you master these, then you'll never need to figure out how to host the perfect roast ever again. Because this is a template for perfect success everytime. Check out the video above to see how to get that ultimate crispy roast pork crackling and all the recipes and videos below from the perfect vibrant salad, to the crunchiest roast potatoes, decadent side dishes and crowd pleasing desserts.

Get that kitchen fired up, because it's roast season.

Let's start with the main event. And roast pork with crunchy crackling is the stuff that roast dinner dreams are made of. There really only one trick you need to now when making the perfect crackling; dry that pork skin out before you out it in the oven.

Check out the how to video above, find the full recipe here and more step-by-step guides right here. Just pick one and you'll know all the secrets to the perfect, crunchy, show-stopping roast centrepiece.

• RECIPE: Perfect roast pork crackling

Next you'll need some good sides, and if you're roasting, it makes sense to throw some spuds in the oven too, because pork and potatoes are a match made in dinner-date heaven.

Nailing a crunchy roast potato is another trick worth mastering. So you can find our favourite recipe right here. And watch the easy How To video below to see the easy way you'll get it right every time.

• RECIPE: How to make crunchy roast potatoes

But it's not just potatoes that you need for an awesome roast dinner. I'd like to suggest that plenty of other vegetables can make excellent sides too. Including broccoli and Brussels sprouts. Especially when you know how to do them right.

• RECIPE: Porteno's Crisp Brussels sprouts with lentils

• RECIPE: Or try this quick and easy grilled broccoli and Brussels sprouts

You will of course need dressings, so it's here that I'd suggest a classic apple sauce and a pan gravy made from the pork juices just to go for a really classic pork roast with all the trimmings.

• RECIPE: How to make gravy from pan juice

• RECIPE: Classic simple apple sauce

Salad adds a freshness and glorious additional vegetable component to the meal, and I'd always suggest having more than one if you're feeding a family. Variety is the spice of life and salads can really lift a meal.

You could opt for something very simple.

• RECIPE: New Waldorf salad

Or go for something more complex.

• RECIPE: Candied chestnut, blue cheese and fennel salad

But if you're feeling really game, you could even add a show-stopping element to your salad and just go all out for roast dinner supremacy.

• RECIPE: Burrata and burnt blood orange salad with pistachios, mint and pomegranate salad

But whatever you pick, a salad is a wonderful inclusion in the roast dinner spread.

At this point, even if your guests have no room left, you'll need to bust out dessert. And at 9Honey Kitchen, we find that there are two types of people in this world, those who opt for a chocolate dessert and those that go for something fruity or tangy.

So think that over carefully before you present them with your dessert choice.

• RECIPE: Chocolate and date molten puddings

• RECIPE: Lemon, lime and bitter tart

And that, my intrepid roast dinner makers, is our ultimate menu for a sensational roast pork dinner.

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