Do you put garlic in cauliflower cheese (when served with a roast)

[Calgarycat]

Just that. Caved in and doing a brocolli and cauliflower cheese for my new BIL. We normally do not do anything creamy. Just seen a few people on TikTok say things like “you ruined it with the garlic”. Guessing it’s too overpowering for a roast?

Do you add garlic when you do it?

(boring question I know!). I would add it if I was doing it as a stand alone dish with salad.

I've never put cauliflower cheese onto a roast dinner, but I'm thinking about it this Xmas. My dilemma is the gravy issue. Would it be ok to keep the CC to one side of the plate, meat on the other side, then veg/tatties down the middle to keep them separate? Like a veg version of the Pennines, separating Yorkshire and Lancashire.

NO

Leeks are good though (cooked very soft in the butter before you put the flour in)

Never add garlic to cauliflower cheese.

Cauliflower cheese is one of my absolute favourites, stems from my mums who cooked it quite regularly. A whole flower and she added lardons in the sauce. I would never put garlic in it but I would eat it with garlic in it. I personally don't think it's a dish that would improve with garlic but I don't think it's overly odd to add it.

I have beef so no bread sauce and no cauliflower cheese. In principle it's the combination of roast meat and cheese that's the problem, and don't get me started on having macaroni cheese with a roast.

We have all sorts of mad things with our Christmas dinner because as people join the family, they bring their own traditions. Other people don’t have to eat them if they don’t want to.

I don't, because it's never occured to me to. But now I might, because garlic is good!

I do always put garlic in creamed leeks when I serve that with a roast. Quite a lot of garlic, as it happens.

No.

Absolutely no garlic anywhere near anything when I’m making a roast.

Even just the idea of bread sauce makes me dry heave a bit. I want gravy and a bit of cranberry only as my 'moist'.

I'm a paprika kind of cauliflower cheese person!

Definitely no garlic (I do like garlic just not in cauliflower cheese!)
I do add a bit of mustard in the cheese sauce

I love cheese and gravy together.

I always make a cauliflower cheese with any roast. Never garlic.
I do add garlic to my roast potatoes, but I think that’s different because it’s much more subtle than actually putting garlic in the dish, if that makes sense.

The problem isn’t the garlic, it’s the cheese. I could never have cauliflower cheese with a roast but I will add garlic and herbs to a join of meat, perhaps lemon, thyme and garlic with chicken or rosemary and garlic with lamb

Garlic powder? A little bit improves most things

Garlic, and paprika, and cheese with jalapeño in it! Cauliflower doesn’t taste of anything anyway, it’s just a vehicle for the “bechamel”.

Nothing better than slices of roast lamb, cauliflower cheese (my way), gravy, roast potato, mint sauce - all in the same bite!!

Nutmeg and mustard. Not garlic.

I solve that problem by putting everything in serving dishes.😙

I'm guessing you're a vampire?

No to garlic in cauliflower cheese. Mustard, nutmeg, maybe paprika - yes.

Personally, I have no problem with a bit of cheese sauce and gravy mixing! :) But then, in our family, we make a creamy onion sauce with a roast dinner and NOTHING is more delicious than a big slab of roast beef, a bite of yorkshire pudding, onion sauce and gravy on top. NOTHING.

To the person worrying about timings - one of the reasons that I DO like to do a cauliflower cheese with a roast dinner, especially at Christmas, is becuase you can do it in advance. I make the sauce etc and put it all in the baking dish the day before, then it just has to go into the oven on the day. Large side dish, mostly prepared in advnace. Win.

I do. And chives. And I only use broccoli. And I let the cheese sauce and gravy mix when I eat it.

This is apparently the hill I'm choosing to die on.

I add nutmeg to Cauliflower cheese it really lifts it and makes it less all about the dairy. Not sure about garlic though. Great in creamy potato dishes but not sure about cauliflower

Never! Some mustard sometimes, panko breadcrumbs on top for a bit of crunch maybe, but not garlic - it would overwhelm the other creamy, comforting flavours. Love a bulb or two roasted whole with the chicken or chucked in with the potatoes, though.

I do but I love love garlic so use it liberally on lots of stuff!

I love garlic but wouldn't put it in cauliflower cheese, just a shit tonne of vintage cheddar and half a spoon of wholegrain mustard to bring the flavour out.