Macaroni cheese on a roast!!!!!

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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! 😂

I was agreeing with all your post OhTheRoses until I realised you have no mashed potato and then I got to this abomination Cauliflower cheese, pork chops, chips and mushrooms.
Wrong, wrong, wrong!

Well it sounds so wrong BUT how can macaroni cheese ever be wrong? I mean, come ON!

@Queenoftheashes macaroni pies are a Scottish delicacy! Most Greggs in Scotland sell them as do other bakers. Macaroni cheese in a scotch pie case - a triumph, especially if you add brown sauce!

Never mind notso - that was my favourite dinner growing up - DH and DS think it's vile as well.

A Caribbean roast is fab. As previously described but with properly seasoned meat and veg, not the usual bland English fare we're used to, and a greater variety to pick and mix from😋. Why aren't there more Caribbean restaurants? Never understood the lack.

Macaroni cheese and gravy is a bit 🤮 to me.

@MustardScreams green bean casserole?!!... go on 🙇🏻‍♀️ I need to make them more exciting!!!

Do Americans eat sweet potato casserole as a dessert?

So many questions!

There's a Jamie Oliver recipe for "cauli, mac and cheese" I've bastardised the hell out of it over the years but it's absolutely belting!!! Cook the mac and cauli in a pan together and put creme frache and cheese in an bowl over it like a ban marie. Drain pasta (add some cooking water to sauce) stir through, bake.

There's faffy options involving breadcrumbs, anchovy we've used bacon and lardons from time to time.... god I'm making this tomorrow!

longwayoff there are loads of Caribbean restaurants in London. Turtle Bay is crap though, don't go there.

Let me make this quite clear, Caribbean Macaroni Pie is not Mac and Cheese.

Macaroni Pie has egg in it so when baked in the oven it comes out like a cake with a crisp crunchy cheesy top which can be cut in wedges. It is often taken in slices on trips to the beach. It is superb.
Mac and cheese is a sloppy sickly mess which definitely doesn't go with a roast dinner. (or anything else for that matter)

The people mentioning Mac and cheese are not mentioning a pie. Its mac and cheese, some cook it soft, some have a crispy top, it doesn't matter as long as it's flavoursome and cheesy. It does not have egg in it, though some might ads one in their sauce.

An afro caribbean wedding or funeral wouldn't be an event without Mac n cheese served along traditional food and roast dinner. As many have said it goes with everything.

It's fine as a side. Not my thing but people like it.

Macaroni cheese is fucking vile. It’s fucking everywhere and I honestly have no idea why.

My loathing of macaroni cheese aside, cheese and gravy should not be anywhere near each other, ever.

We have cauliflower cheese or leeks in cheese sauce with a roast but never macaroni!

I love Scottish macaroni pie, and liking the sound of the Caribbean macaroni pie and will look up a recipe.

I had a beef rib in a restaurant recently served with a mac and cheese side, as well as all of the potatoes and whatnot. It was surprisingly good even though the meal was probably double my daily calorie count.

A good macaroni is the food of the gods, best cooked with bacon with crispy cheese and tomato on top.

My DH, American born, raised and lived here his whole life, likes Mac n cheese as a side dish with steaks or roast meats. It’s quite popular here. I’m not quite at that stage of assimilation here...

@spacedinosaur green bean casserole is horrible. It should be banned.

Who are these people?

Not on a roast! NO! It’s peverse! Why not just put bloody ketchup on it and be done with it! All majorly against the Roast Rules

My West Indian family often big roast dinner often have Mac n cheese as well. It's the best. Preferably the baked crispy cheesy type. Usually a couple different meats well seasoned, four types of veg, yorkshires, gravy, stuffing (possibley with sausage meat in), cauliflower cheese, rice, gravy and a Mac n cheese.

It's the best. Looking forward to visiting my family soon up north!!!

What is cauliflower cheese? Is it like fake cheese, like cauliflower rice?

Why aren't there more Caribbean restaurants? Never understood the lack.

Me either, until I went to one. The clientele were like my bloody family - always late, always changing their order, wanting to socialise rather than sit and eat and a basic meal out took 5 hours. The profit margin must’ve been shockingly low.

Not on a roast! NO! It’s peverse! Why not just put bloody ketchup on it and be done with it! All majorly against the Roast Rules

Yup. We put ketchup on.

West Indian Roast:

Roast chicken
Another roast meat (usually beef or lamb)
Roast potatoes
Carrots
Peas
Another green veg
Plantain
Rice
Macaroni pie
Anything else the cook fancies (often a bit of left over stew)

My husband is a massive foodie and this utterly blew his mind when he came to my family’s for dinner early on.

What is cauliflower cheese? Is it like fake cheese, like cauliflower rice?

It's cauliflower in a cheese sauce which is then normally topped with breadcrumbs and more cheese and baked for a crispy top.

Ahh. We'd call that cauliflower and cheese. Interesting. Thank you.

My Nana used to serve leeks in cheese sauce with a roast. The thought of it is making me peckish.

Jamaican or southern American. It really works. I like the southern style with collard greens. And Yorkshire pudding. I like to mix it up.