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Caulifower cheese with Christmas dinner?

(91 Posts)
shysal Tue 05-Dec-23 12:02:54

It is something I would never think of serving, as cheese sauce and gravy on the same plate seems odd to me. Do lots of you serve this and why, when there are so many traditional trimmings without? grin

MayBee70 Wed 06-Dec-23 19:40:15

Just seen on Facebook that Premier Inn now have a plate that keeps baked beans away from the rest of the breakfast food. Could use that for cauliflower cheese!

PaperMonster Wed 06-Dec-23 19:37:19

Also though, I don’t have gravy.

PaperMonster Wed 06-Dec-23 19:36:53

I would, in fact I’ll probably do it as I don’t eat potatoes so eat a lot of cauli.

Ali23 Tue 05-Dec-23 21:21:26

I would have cauliflower cheese for my xmas dinner, with the other veggie trimmings, so if you have a veggie coming for lunch it sounds like a great idea!

mrshat Tue 05-Dec-23 20:49:15

NO! Definitely no .....................

swampy1961 Tue 05-Dec-23 20:46:42

Yes to both!!

Chardy Tue 05-Dec-23 20:21:50

I always make cauliflower cheese with a roast dinner.

MayBee70 Tue 05-Dec-23 17:31:08

We have cauliflower cheese with just about everything. Often have broccoli with it. I like it with mushrooms and sausages but am happy to have it with chicken, too.

Sarahmob Tue 05-Dec-23 17:07:57

I always serve up either cheesy leeks or cauliflower cheese as I don’t like cauliflower without a cheese sauce. But each to their own I think.

shysal Tue 05-Dec-23 17:00:26

I love home made bread sauce! At a pub carvery meal once I spooned lots of it on my meal only to discover that it was horseradish, which I hate!

Desdemona Tue 05-Dec-23 16:58:37

I love cauliflower cheese. I don't often have it with a roast but I suppose it would be lovely as long as others have said and the sauce is thick and doesn't touch the gravy!
I have a little recipe tip as well (which you all might thing sounds horrible) - but if you have any leftover bread sauce, add a big handful of mature cheddar, a half teaspoon of English mustard and a dash of Worcestershire sauce and you have an instant cheese sauce for the cauliflower.

Kim19 Tue 05-Dec-23 16:52:02

Sounds interesting to me!

lixy Tue 05-Dec-23 16:47:40

Yes if it's a veggie roast, but otherwise not.
I love cauli cheese as a main meal.

Germanshepherdsmum Tue 05-Dec-23 16:46:28

It’s lovely but can make for one side dish too many at Christmas. I tried adding it last Christmas but won’t do so again. A nice addition to an ordinary roast.

Redhead56 Tue 05-Dec-23 16:36:46

Yes but not a lot of sauce and it roasted in the oven a nice addition to the meal.

Primrose53 Tue 05-Dec-23 15:15:07

Yes I could eat it with Christmas lunch but don’t think we would have room on our plates! 🤣

Bread sauce though …… it is lush! Has to be my own homemade though. No packet stuff. Got that once at a pub xmas lunch and it was horrible.

Cabbie21 Tue 05-Dec-23 14:55:22

I will eat whatever is offered. My son is a great cook and will probably serve cauliflower cheese and Yorkshire puddings with the turkey and all the usual trimmings. I wouldn’t bother making it myself.

Whitewavemark2 Tue 05-Dec-23 14:41:52

I had only heard of eating cauliflower cheese with roast on GN.

It seems a tad excessive to me, but each to their own😄

tickingbird Tue 05-Dec-23 14:13:29

No I like traditional Christmas dinner. It’s supposed to be different to all the other dinners. No things like mashed potatoes, peas or Yorkshire pudding. I always have chestnut stuffing too.

Ultimately it’s entirely up to the individual though.

Nannyof4mummyof2 Tue 05-Dec-23 13:51:13

Yep i do this x

Witzend Tue 05-Dec-23 13:44:43

I’d quite like it, but when I’ve been hosting for Christmas it’s just too much faff. Cauliflower cheese needs IMO to be made very last minute, straight from pans to table, def. not frozen in advance - we like our cauliflower a bit al dente, not soggy.

AreWeThereYet Tue 05-Dec-23 13:43:45

We would but don't always have bread sauce or cranberry sauce. MrA isn't a lover of turkey so we rarely have it and prefer beef or lamb so the sides vary anyway. We do have gravy at the same time, but don't mix them up 😄

Norah Tue 05-Dec-23 13:37:33

Our GC,GGC love Emmental Cauli cheese, we make it for them.

None like bread sauce or gravy - no problem with Cauli cheese mixing.

Charleygirl5 Tue 05-Dec-23 13:25:19

I live on my own and rarely make gravy as I am not a lover of it. I would only have a teaspoonful and that is not worth the effort so I am more than happy to have cauliflower cheese with anything. If I liked gravy I would separate the two.

Visgir1 Tue 05-Dec-23 13:23:49

Cauliflower cheese yes.. Bread sauce Never.