Macaroni cheese on a roast!!!!!

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Light hearted ....

Several of my friends are having macaroni cheese on a roast dinner..... is this the norm? Plastered all over social media.

I have heard of cauliflower cheese but never ever heard of macaroni cheese! I'm actually horrified and it looks disgusting! 😂

Macaroni cheese is a nursery supper, well it was when I was little.
I don't think anything in cheese sauce goes with a traditional roast.

Most of what people eat for American Thanksgiving has nothing to do with the myth of the first Thanksgiving

Pretty standard in my house, Jamaican background.

It's a no from me.

I love cauliflower cheese, but don't ever make it with a roast with gravy. The competing sauces detract from both. Macaroni cheese would have the same problem.

I don’t think the macaroni pie is a Glaswegian thing, Scottish yes and they are lovely. I only like my own or my mums macaroni cheese, refuse to call it mac and cheese though. And wouldn’t have it on or at the side of a roast a roast is a lot of food without more at the side. But can imagine it would be tasty, hungry now!!

Currently in the kitchen making cauliflower cheese with my leftovers

Hubby's family are Caribbean and Mac Cheese is a staple for Sunday dinners. But they make it a bit different. It's more like a lasagna.

My jamaican friend serves this with a roast, alongside coleslaw. Her food is seasoned so differently than an english roast that it works lovely.

It’s more the fact of introducing another carb on top of roast potatoes that seems wrong...
That said - am intrigued by mentions of Jamaican roasts - what’s included?

Its an American thing. I work with lots of Americans, completely normal for them to have Mac n cheese as a side

I wouldn't say it's
solely an American thing, since I was young I have been used to it on a roast etc when visiting Jamaican relatives and were in the UK.

Mmmm macaroni cheese 😊

Totally misread this as macaroni cheese on toast, which on reflection I am definitely going to try

@mykingdomforacaramel

So at my MIL the other week there was:
Roast lamb
Curried chicken
Rice and peas
Mac and cheese
Potato salad
Roast potatoes
Honey roast parsnips
Carrots
Cabbage and spring greens
Fried fish (some pescatarian extended family)

My old housemate was an amazing cook and would make roast dinner for us all. He would do Mac and cheese with it and said he always had it growing up on Sunday's with a roast. His parents were Caribbean so might be a cultural thing?

Mac and cheese with gravy seems wrong but is so so right!

Nope. Went to a Toby carvery once. Once being the operative word. Roasts:

Lamb, roasties, 1 x green veg, leeks in garlic sauce, mint sauce, red wine gravy.

Pork, roasties, carrots, green veg, apple sauce, cider gravy.

Beef, roasties, yorkies, carrots, brocolli or savoy cabbage, horseradish sauce, onion gravy with red wine.

Ham/gammon, roasties, carrots, broad beans in parsley sauce, broc

Chicken, pork sage and onion stuffing, cranberry or redcurrant jelly, roasties, 2 veg, poultry gravy with white wine or sherry.

Turkey, stuffing, pigs, cranberry, roasties, sprouts, runner beans, poultry gravy laced with wh wine or sherry, bread sauce, red cabbage.

Cauliflower cheese, pork chops, chips and mushrooms.

Macaroni cheese and a crisp well dressed salad.

That is the law.

Mac Cheese is a joy. I would rather eat mac cheese than a roast dinner.

It's completely the norm in my home country ( USA) and in several Afro-American and Afro-carribean countries. Mac and cheese is more of a whole meal here while it's a side dish in a lot of places.
I've grown to think it's a bit over the top in addition to the traditional British roast myself. Still ... Thanksgiving and Christmas. Yummy! Ha ha!

Omg. You're so correct! Gravy on Mac and Gak ( American slang) absolutely delectable!

See my jamaican friend and my childrens side of the family would do a jamaican roast always with curried goat.

So

Curry goat
Rice n peas
Mac n cheese
Roast potatoes
Fried dumplings
Seasoned cabbage that may or may not have salt fish in
Carrots
Coleslaw
Roasted gammon depending on who eats pork and who doesn't.

And sometimes salad!

Apple crumble for pudding, or brown cake.

@ChilledBee and @fuzzypoo thank you for sharing... those sound delicious. Am wondering if anywhere does a Caribbean style roast now.

Think it’s vile but it could be a side for a roast - couple of small spoons? And made well, I suppose.

I used to loathe risotto - a plateful of sticky rice - yuk! But then at a restaurant had it as a side with the main dish - just a few spoonfuls and it was great.

Imagine this is similar?

Not a fan of food that looks beige in colour.

I would say Mac and cheese with roast meat (gammon, turkey, pork, beef) and a salad would be a good meal.

I wouldn’t call it a traditional English Sunday roast though.

(My mum serves mushroom risotto alongside Sunday roasts sometime instead of roast potatoes on occasion so our family stretches the definition a little).

It was the cause of some consternation when I discovered Toby Carvery does Mac’n’cheese as a ‘side’. Surely, I wondered, it had not been declared one of your ‘five a day’? Toby Carvery is a strange concept at the best of times. There’s the intense heat that beats you back if you try venturing forth to the ‘deck’ for seconds, and the weird rule that says vegetarians must be given square plates (or maybe that’s just our local Toby?) They also have end-of-the-pier slot machines in the bar, the sort where you try to get a toy with a mechanical grabber (loses point of thread).

It’s a West Indian staple. My husband thinks it’s genius and accepts any excuse to add ‘macaroni pie’ to a meal: roast, stew, anything.

It’s fucking delicious. And why I’m so bloody fat.