Who buys cauliflower cheese at Xmas?

[noblegiraffe]

And red cabbage??

Christmas dinner is, as far as I'm concerned, turkey, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, sausages wrapped in bacon, some peas and carrots, a token sprout and lots of gravy. Maybe some gammon too. Other people may have parsnips.

I've been looking at the ready prepared stuff for Christmas and there's red cabbage and cauliflower cheese on offer. What? Why? You can't smother that in gravy and thus they are surely wrong?

bread sauce is my favourite
chestnut stuffing
sprouts
pigs in blankets
parsnips
roast potatoes - in goose fat, or is it duck?
mash swede and carrotts
greens
might do red cabbage
brocolli

I serve turkey and gammon
roast and mashed potatoes (my oven isn't big enough to do enough roasts for everyone to have just roast potatoes)
sprouts with bacon,
red cabbage with port, apple and cinnamon
broccoli or cauliflower (without cheese)
glazed carrots
mashed swede with butter and pepper
chipolatas
three types of stuffing, one as a loaf, one in balls, one wrapped in bacon.
a leek pudding of my own invention made with Yorkshire pudding batter rather than suet
gravy
cranberry and port sauce
bread sauce

It's far too many choices really but I generally cater for 20 or so at Christmas and don't have big enough pots and pans to do vast portions of just three things.

My DH made me do MUSHY PEAS for Christmas dinner the first year we were together, insisted he had it at home every year, xmas dinner not the same without it blah blah. When I mentioned this to his Mum she looked at me as if I'd lost the plot…. and confirmed they never had mushy peas for xmas dinner! So mushy peas are NOT on the menu for our xmas dinner these days!

We are having :-
Three bird roast
Mashed AND roasted potatoes
Gravy
Stuffing
Sausages (not chipolatas) wrapped in bacon
Red cabbage with apple and spices (an online Waitrose recipe)
Maple syrup roasted parsnips
Sprouts
Carrots
Cauliflower cheese

Mmmmmm.... I've never done the cauliflower cheese with a Christmas dinner but seen loads of recipes for it this year and thought we'd give it a go. I have it with other roasts so why not for the big day? Can't wait!

We have mash but only as its the way my dad likes his potatoes (also have roasties) - mind he would also have a "tin of mince" 《vom》 if it was his choice. Foot goes down there!

I am planning on doing red cabbage this year, and whenever Ive stayed with anyone down south id get cauli cheese on my roast (and no fucking gravy) so id not be surprised to see that on a roast.

What?! We have red cabbage and cauliflower cheese every year. I would be gutted without! I'm afraid on this Occassion you are wrong

No mash. No mushrooms. No peas. No Yorkshires (unless with beef).

We have:

Meat (usually venison)
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Maple glazed carrots
Sprouts with pancetta and chestnuts
Carrot and swede mash
Red cabbage
Pigs in blankets.

On Christmas Eve we have a ham. Which is served with mashed potato and cauliflower cheese.

And then on Boxing Day we use the leftover mash and sprouts to do amazing bubble and squeak to eat with cold meats and pickles. Probably my favourite meal of the whole season :D

Just finished cooking my red cabbage for the freezer! (Takes 2 hours in a casserole dish).

Never thought of having cauliflower cheese though.

Christmas dinner is a simple affair in our house- turkey, stuffing, sprouts, roasties, carrot and turnip mash, cranberry sauce and gravy.

NO cauliflour cheese!

Oh and parsnips!

Cranberry sauce is all wrong! Turkey isn't fatty enough to need a fruit sauce.

No need for mash as well as roast potatoes

Yorkshire puddings completely mad

Cauliflower cheese- delicious with ham etc. but personally I don't think it goes with gravy.

We will have
Turkey
Little sausages and bacon rolls
roast potatoes
bread sauce
sprouts with lemon and ginger
red cabbage
carrots
gravy
lemon and parsley stuffing

Cauliflour cheese has a Southern vibe to me. Like bread sauce. Might be wrong.

OP, yes gravy goes on the dinner, usually just on the roast potatoes. I don't have much at all but it wouldn't be right without it. Cranberry sauce just on the side for pigs in blankets and turkey dipping purposes.

Turkey might not be a fatty meat, but my sausagemeat, sage and onion stuffing adds enough fat to warrant some cranberry sauce on the side (plus I love it with my sprouts!).

We usually have:

Turkey
Ham
Pork, sage and onion stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Sprouts
Carrots
Gravy
Bread sauce
Cranberry sauce

I cooked red cabbage for the first time last year, but decided I didn't really like it enough to do it again (and no one else was that keen, either, it's not all about me!). Cauliflower cheese at Christmas has never occurred to me, can't say I fancy it much. I'd consider adding peas (frozen petits pois, preferably) but I'm making an effort not to over-cater this year, hate that stuffed feeling after dinner, and there are two other courses to get through, plus cheese if required/there's any room left.

Turkey might not be a fatty meat, but my sausagemeat, sage and onion stuffing adds enough fat to warrant some cranberry sauce on the side (plus I love it with my sprouts!).

We usually have:

Turkey
Ham
Pork, sage and onion stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Sprouts
Carrots
Gravy
Bread sauce
Cranberry sauce

I cooked red cabbage for the first time last year, but decided I didn't really like it enough to do it again (and no one else was that keen, either, it's not all about me!). Cauliflower cheese at Christmas has never occurred to me, can't say I fancy it much. I'd consider adding peas (frozen petits pois, preferably) but I'm making an effort not to over-cater this year, hate that stuffed feeling after dinner, and there are two other courses to get through, plus cheese if required/there's any room left.

I should have said the peas we have at Christmas dinner are frozen petits pois, not mushy peas or tinned marrowfat peas, by the way!

We don't bother with a first course and we don't have cheese afterwards either. Main course, digestive pause, Christmas pudding + cream/ice cream, done.

We don't have starters or pudding either, a few nibbles around 12, dinner at 2ish, we alwsys say we'll have pudding later but it doesn't really happen, I tend to give it untouched to my parents to take home.

Was you looking at the m&s Christmas food op?
Cauliflower cheese and red cabbage are in the luxury veg pack that I have ordered

We're having
Aforementioned veg selection (can't remember the others)
Beef
Turkey
Stuffing
Sausages wrapped in bacon
Roast potatoes
Mash
Yorkshire puddings
Posh beef gravy

I have never known anyone to make a roast dinner and not include mash or Yorkshire puddings. No matter what meat. Is it a Yorkshire thing?

Turkey
Roast potatoes using goosefat
Sprouts (creamed sprouts this year)
Braised red cabbage
Roasted parsnips and carrots (roasted together for ease)
Stuffing of some kind (probably bought in)
Bacon-wrapped chipolatas
Simple gravy made using roasting tin on the hob and stock using the giblets etc.

All the above are essential but some will be cooked ahead and frozen.

For pudding I can't decide between trifle (Black Forest gateaux) or b&b pudding (gingerbread flavour).

the thought of cauliflower cheese with a roast dinner makes me irrationally angry. Surely the cheese will adulterate the gravy?

No to bread sauce.
Maybe to Yorkshire puddings, although it doesn't seem right from Christmas dinner.
There will be cranberry sauce, but bought because I'm lazy.

Never had it for Christmas, but love it so much, now I can't think of a single Reason why not.

Red cabbage is a pretty normal Christmas dinner trimming,
Surely?! I do Delia's with cooking apples and lots of spice. Has gone well with goose, turkey, ham and my mum loves it cold with left overs. I love cauliflower cheese with beef roast but bit heavy for Christmas dinner.
I normally do
Main meat (varies)
Roast potato
Maple parsnips
Carrots with honey and star anais
Sprouts with pancetta and chestnuts
Chestnut stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Red cabbage

Never had peas or mash for christmas, sorry

Bread sauce looks so much like vomit I can't believe people actually eat the stuff

I appear to have inherited my DGM's tendency to worry that people may be -heaven forbid- hungry and so I'm doing

Turkey
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing
Beef
Yorkshire Puddings
Roast Potatoes
Cauliflower Cheese
Broccoli
Carrots
Mange Tout (s'Christmas we're going posh)
Parsnips
Red cabbage
Bread Sauce
Cranberry Sauce
Gravy

Leftovers on Boxing day.

Same here, the flavour of bread sauce is just about ok, but not something I would have with a roast, but the texture and appearance are what makes me really detest it.

Could not eat Christmas dinner without mash.

Cauliflower cheese and red cabbage go perfectly with ham IMO. But weird with turkey, very weird indeed.

But I don't like honey parsnips, so what do I know.