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Caulifower cheese with Christmas dinner?

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SueDonim Tue 05-Dec-23 13:07:44

No cauliflower cheese for Christmas in this house! In fact no cauliflower cheese at all, unless it’s Dh and me on our own. No one else likes it.

It seems a very odd thing to have alongside gravy, cranberry sauce and bread sauce.

Lexisgranny Tue 05-Dec-23 12:56:46

I remember my mother being very upset when I served broccoli rather than sprouts on Christmas day. I restrained myself from pointing out that she had in the distant past, served halves of poached peaches with cranberry sauce in the ‘dip’ which was not to my grandmother’s taste.

Surely on Christmas Day you can serve and eat exactly what you want.

Grandmadinosaur Tue 05-Dec-23 12:48:37

Love cauliflower cheese but don’t have it with Christmas dinner. There’s enough veg and trimmings with the lunch so for me no need to create any extra.

Theexwife Tue 05-Dec-23 12:46:10

I love cauliflower cheese but as a stand alone dish, I dont fancy it with gravy but to be fair have never tried it.

Margs Tue 05-Dec-23 12:45:03

I can imagine gravy plus cheese sauce making a perfect substitute for wallpaper paste.

sodapop Tue 05-Dec-23 12:28:58

No definitely not for me. I prefer cauliflower cheese as a main course. We actually prefer leek cheese.

kittylester Tue 05-Dec-23 12:27:08

We love cauliflower cheese with any roast. The trick is just to coat the cauliflower is the sauce not to overwhelm it. Xx

GrannyGravy13 Tue 05-Dec-23 12:27:01

Definitely

Ailidh Tue 05-Dec-23 12:21:06

In my childhood home cauliflower cheese was a meal, not a side dish, but I have taken it as a side in a Toby, and it is as rather good. It probably helps that I can't bear lots of gravy, having only a discreet pool inside a Yorkshire pudding.
I could see it with Christmas Dinner, though.

My favourite bits of CD were always the bread sauce, the roast parsnips, the sprouts and the sausagemeat and oatmeal "stuffing", quotation marks because it was never stuffed in anything but baked in the oven like a meat loaf. Mmmmm.

Whiff Tue 05-Dec-23 12:11:00

shysal I've had both on the same plate in the past but made sure the gravy didn't touch the cauliflower cheese. I didn't make it myself but was out at a friend's house.

Sago Tue 05-Dec-23 12:09:14

Yes! Not with Xmas dinner but often with pork and chicken. It’s fine with gravy as long as the cheese sauce is not runny.

TwiceAsNice Tue 05-Dec-23 12:08:57

We have it in our family as one granddaughter doesn’t like a lot of vegetables and this is her favourite , we all like it so it’s included. All personal taste I guess

grandMattie Tue 05-Dec-23 12:08:57

I don't but I don't see why not, if you all like it!

Treelover Tue 05-Dec-23 12:08:56

no. no. bread sauce ...no further.

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