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?

If it looks like vomit, it's not been made properly!

We always have mash, I love mash!
Mash and cauliflower cheese together is amazing.
We have chicken,mash, roasties, carrots,broccoli, peas,pigs in blankets and gravy.
Can't wait now!

Honey parsnips (or carrots) are awful too, veg should not be sweet.

That still looks like wallpaper paste Gasp

I'd never even heard of bread sauce until I met DH and we had it at my MiL's house. I ate it to be polite but had no idea what it was.

Even looking at that photo makes me feel a bit queasy.

Nope. Still looks like puke!

It looks like food for Edwardian invalids, not proper Christmas nosh.

I've gone back to keeping the veg plain so no honey roast anything.

I do shredded sprouts with bacon because I like that but also do plain boiled sprouts.
Roast Potato and parsnip
carrots
broccoli
possibly red cabbage with apple
boiled new potato.....mainly because DMum used to love new pots on Christmas day so traditional for me.
Peas and sweetcorn....yes I know but one DS loves it.
Yorkshire.....good old Aunt Bessie
2 sorts of stuffing.....Will make sage and onion but need to find another for this year because we are nut free on Christmas day. One guest has to be so we all are.

Always do turkey and another meat
Beef again this year
Cranberry sauce/horseradish sauce
Little sausages
Gravy

No bread sauce......why would you?
No cauliflower cheese.....Lovely with gammon later in the holiday but not with gravy.

All adults (plus one babe in arms) for Christmas dinner this year so will eat quite late and spread the courses out around feeds

Adult DC are sorting drinks, starters and pudding.

Slightly off topic from the original question but what does everyone have for dessert?

Last year we had millionaires dessert (from M&S) or cheesecake. Like the idea of Christmas pudding more than the reality really.

Spiced red cabbage is wonderful with Christmas dinner, but the M&S stuff is dire.

Cauliflower cheese is rather nice with ham on Christmas eve or boxing day, but I prefer cheesy leeks.

Peas with Christmas dinner are an abomination, just to make my disagreement clear.

Those considering red cabbage.

Try Delia's recipe.
Make ahead, though a slow cooker or low hob works as well as the oven.
Freeze.
Thaw overnight and nuke on the day.
All the better for being made in advance.

We don't really bother with dessert, too full and we aren't really pudding eaters. I buy a small Christmas pudding which usually ends up going home unopened with my parents (none of my lot like it) and get in some vanilla ice cream in case anyone wants it.

There would be mutiny here if we didn't have Christmas pudding. My husband and daughter love it, and so do I. My son is a sad disappointment in this respect, but we still love him. We make our own pudding (Delia's recipe) and what's left over from Christmas Day gets re-heated and eaten on Boxing Day. Utterly wonderful.

I'd have it anyway, but one of its big advantages is that it's all made in advance (and very much the better for long keeping) and on the day it just has to be re-heated (which I do in my slow cooker, usually in another room so it's out of the way of the other cooking). Put onto a plate, pour over some brandy, set alight and voila! It's always dark by the time we get to the pudding and we are eating by candlelight, so the flaming pudding is seen to best effect.

I see MN have a handy emoticon for my face by the end of Christmas dinner:

No, worse than that:

I like Christmas pudding in theory, the smell, the making, the flames, but when it cone to eating it, no, I can't. DH doesn 't mind it but the DCs take after me and won't touch it.

Christmas pudding is rank, can't stand dried fruit, so no Christmas cake or mince pies either. We have something chocolate if home (M&S chocolate christmas crackers were nice) or sherry trifle if at my parents (my mum is very liberal with the sherry).

I can't bear trifle either, it's the booze, really hate the taste of it in puddings. I do like a mince pie though.

Always try to have a light pudding. Dd made apple and marshmallow flan a couple of years ago. That was lovely and not too filling.

Having tablet cheesecake this year.

Cauliflower cheese, I can take it or leave it. Sprouts and red cabbage add Christmas colour to the meal.

I buy a very small sized bag of tiny sprouts, we don't really like them.

Peas are so everyday for Christmas dinner, like a green given to a fussy five year old.

Mash has no place in Christmas dinner.

I do concede to Yorkshire pudding, it's not really a Christmas dinner food.

Mushrooms? Bizarre!

How does anyone manage to roast a turkey and beef for the same meal? Plus all the side dishes ? Do you have two full sized ovens!

It's:
Turkey
Sausage meat, chipolatas, bacon rolls
Stuffing
Mash
Peas, carrots, sprouts
Red cabbage
Cranberry
Bread sauce
Gravy.

No cauliflower cheese, no yorkshires.
Red cabbage and cranberry have to be home made.
Bread sauce is obv disgusting but half our family love it.

Christmas pudding, alight, with brandy sauce or cream.

I love Cauliflower Cheese! There are a few vegetarians in our family so I always think it helps flesh out Christmas dinner a bit more for them- especially since they're exempt from pigs in blankets!

I always cook and slice my meat on Christmas Eve! Then it's just side dishes and the meat slightly warmed X

Yy Christmas Pudding is on the reject list along with bread sauce. Not as bad but never eaten so a waste to make/buy.

Something chocolatey from M&S will do nicely.

I always cook and slice my meat on Christmas Eve!

Now that is the Christmas heresy for me. The smell of the turkey roasting is an essential part of our Christmas Day.