5 Easy Sunday Dinner Recipes to Feed Your Whole Family | Allrecipes
Get ready to make a comforting, classic Sunday dinner from start to finish! In this cozy, step-by-step guide, Nicole shows you how to pull together a full family-style menu — from tender pot roast with rich gravy to creamy mashed potatoes, fresh green beans, and two nostalgic desserts.
With simple instructions and helpful tips, Nicole walks you through a perfectly cooked pot roast, smooth and buttery mashed potatoes, Grandma Mac’s seasoned green beans, and a crisp classic salad to round out the plate. And of course, no Sunday supper is complete without dessert — you’ll learn how to make a silky chocolate cream pie and a fun, retro Jello topped with Cool Whip for the ultimate old-school finish.
Whether you’re cooking for family dinner or just craving a traditional meal that feels like home, this Sunday spread has everything you need.
Timestamps:
0:10 – Pot Roast & Gravy
4:42 – Mashed Potatoes
7:09 – Grandma Mac’s Green Beans
8:59 – Classic Salad
10:27 – Chocolate Cream Pie
13:17 – Jello & Cool Whip
13:37 – How to Serve
Get the recipes here:
Pot Roast & Gravy: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/230586/roast-with-gravy/
Mashed Potatoes (Note: double the recipe and leave out garlic): https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/24771/basic-mashed-potatoes/
Grandma Mac’s Green Beans: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/275309/grandma-macs-green-beans/
Classic Salad: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/18542/thousand-island-dressing-ii/
Chocolate Cream Pie: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/15756/chocolate-cream-pie-ii/
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35 Comments
That bowl you served the mashed potatoes in is the Depression glass pattern I collect. It is called Diana. That's awesome to me!
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I could smell my grandmothers kitchen while you cooked Grandma M’s was pot roast or her meatloaf. GrandmaL’s was Lamb with mint jelly or ham. Such good cooks and I learned a lot from the best💕I miss them terribly.
I can smell it thru the screen! You nailed it!
When my now adult children were growing up and started getting super busy I created family dinner and it was one night a week they couldn’t miss dinner..they got to choose the night they wanted and honestly they made sure they showed up and looked forward to it.
Sugar does not go in green beans!!
The Roast ingredients you give do not agree with the recipe link, there are several differences? Is there a better link?
Excellent! This reminds me of my precious Grandma 😌 But, we always had lemon meringue, mile high meringue 😂
You are really fun to follow, but my question is how do you stay so tiny with all the tasting you do?
This is what's missing in our society today. Slow down. Gather the family around the dinner table at least once a week. Preferably every night, but since families don't get to spend much time together anymore, try to slow down for one nice meal together. Invite a neighbor over.
Reminisce about the good times. Make new memories
This brought so many wonderful memories of sunday dinner. I love this!
We never had Sunday dinner, but my mom made the best pot roast with potatoes and carrots, the juicey "gravy on the taters OMG I miss those days! My husband won't eat pot roast which makes me kinda sad.
The jello desert! I'm quite a bit older than you but I remember the jello being a treat. It is cold and sweet. A great desert.
We always had rump roast!
Not the Sunday dinner at country Grandma’s house. It was always fried chicken, ham, mashed potatoes, corn, another bean choice (green beans, limas, black eyed peas), greens or cabbage. Dessert was chocolate pie, fried pies and pound cake.
They all look good!😋
Delicious!!! Thku😊
Thank you for the inspiration!! 🥧 🥕 🥔 🍞 🧈 🥗
Thanks, Nicole, for all of your videos, I have gotten so many great recipes in the last year! We are 75 years old, married for 51 1/2 years and just had a new farm home built and we still go to church on Sunday morning and love a good Sunday dinner. I think our world could use some more church and Sunday dinners! Simpler times have lots of value, in my opinion ❤. I love to cook and my husband likes to eat, a match made in heaven! I made your Salisbury steak recipe last night and it was a hit!
Can you link your shirt please?
I have another question. I see all over YouTube that is not safe to lock your crockpot lid. Is that correct?
Sour cream in the mashed potatoes… so good! My mom made them w/ butter & sour cream… so delicious!
Reminds me of when I grew up.
I host Sunday dinner and dessert at my house with my hubby and kids, and my grandparents come over to our house….every Sunday!
In the summer, cabbage was always on the Sunday table as well as a platter of sliced tomatoes.
My mother and grandmother just threw the roast in the oven, maybe with sliced onions. Mashed potatoes and creamed carrots.
Pot roast is my favorite. Tfs
Spot on!
I make Sunday dinner every Sunday
My grandmother never really made Sunday dinners, but mom did. I miss it, coleslaw carrot salad, green salad etc. I miss those breyani dinners. She wasn't much of cook but I loved her food
Sunday dinner! In my case Sunday lunch after church. What a sweet video, as always!
Yessssssss- that 1000 ISLAND Dressing …lol 😂.. my mom used to make dinners in 1970’s. Then , the 80’s never had it, then I got married and for 40 years . No thousand island dressing, dressing. I m now FULL CIRCLE BACK to loving the dressing . It makes me feel 15 again.lol 😅lol
I remember, we didn’t have money in 1970’s – eating the jello for my lunches was GOLD. I couldn’t afford the dinners in cafeteria other kids ate. But once in a while I would dare to buy Bread with a Brown Gravy over it. Boy that was simple, no extravagance . I didn’t go to McDonalds at all in the 1970’s we just couldn’t afford that food- first time I went I thoght it was for the upper middle class. then I got a job in an ad agency, and started eating McDonald’s. Lol . but soon after realized it is GARBAGE FOOD. I still love American Diner food though – it hits good ..lol
My family loves potroast, thank you for the tips