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 don’t but I did notice that the delicious Cook cauliflower cheese has garlic salt in it. So I might try adding a bit of that next time I make it.
Nutmeg is critical IMO.

No garlic, for me it’s a cheese sauce with a teaspoon of mustard powder, one of paprika and a couple of teaspoons of onion powder, salt and white pepper.

No garlic. And I always roast the cauliflower.

I wouldn’t touch bread sauce with a barge pole so no problem here. My MiL does cauliflower cheese with a roast but I don’t pour gravy anywhere near it and eat it first so it doesn’t get gravy on it.

Gravy + cheese = 🤢

No, grate a bit of nutmeg for cauliflower cheese.

No, that's an abomination...

No. Cauliflower cheese is a tbs butter melted in a pain, then add a tbs of flour, make a paste & slowly add milk until you have a consistency you like. I add Dijon mustard & grate some nutmeg. I add cheese & keep tasting till it’s cheesy to my liking, season with salt & pepper. Then pour over part cooked cauliflower add grated cheese & bake until cheese is lovely melted

My husband is the cook. He puts cayenne pepper in and it 👌

That is exactly my method too.

Microwave cheese sauce is the way forward. There’s a mumsnet video if you google it. So much easier than making a roux etc.

I add a little mustard and cayenne pepper to enhance the flavour. I’ve also started roasting the cauliflower in the dish rather than boiling.

Or you could just leave out the gravy?

A big No to garlic in CC.

Or to CC with any meats except gammon, bacon or sausages.