Do you have cauliflower cheese with your christmas dinner?

[MrsMotherHen]

Am thinking of doing cauliflower cheese this year with the dinner.

Is it a good addition?

Can I make it the day before then bung in oven christmas day?

Yes, always have cauliflower cheese. We are part vegetarian, but the meat eaters enjoy it as well. I don't do bread sauce though.

I steam the cauliflower, pour over sauce and leave to go cold. Put in the oven to reheat while the meat is resting. I think it tastes better reheated.

No, but only because it's another dish to go in the oven! (and wash up).

No. There is more than enough dinner without it.

Duck we hate turkey
2 sorts of stuffing
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Sprouts
Red cabbage
Caramelised potatoes token nod to Scandi heritage
Chipolatas
Cranberry sauce
Bread sauce
Gravy

Where is there room in the plate for cauliflower cheese? Plus are you expecting the cook to have a nervous breakdown?

No.

I'm thinking about doing cauliflower cheese this year also. I think it is becoming more popular with roasts.

We are this year because we're having rib of beef and it does really well with that.

Yes

Yes because we cater for vegetarians and it goes well with nut roasts. Easy to reheat if you do it the day before.

I love cauliflower cheese but don't have it with Christmas dinner. Mainly because I'm already doing a macaroni cheese for huffy sulkalot (teenage dd) but also because I do think it goes better with beef which we have for new year (turkey and gammon on the big day)

I think I did last year and will do this year (yes to preparing the day before too). No to bread sauce. Don't normally do Yorkshires, but might this year, depends on how it's all going. Yorkshires are all a bit last minute for me, when everything else is coming together.

I wouldn't have it with a full roast dinner as it's so heavy, but I'd have it on Boxing Day with random turkey/ham leftovers mmmmmmmmm

No, and we don’t have Yorkshires either.
No Yorkshire's? What the hell?
They are the star attraction!

We've done it for years because it's BIL's favourite and he's not ken on most veg. Also Yorkshire Pudding with Turkey is now 'traditional' for us since I made it when we had unexpected extra guests. DNs insist on it.

We have leeks in cheese. It's AWESOME.

No way. Because:

1. the cheese sauce doesn't go well with bread sauce
2. the cheese sauce doesn't go well with gravy (yuck)
3. You already have a unbelievable amount for one meal. you already have SIX vegetables!!!

No yorshires here either.
But then we only do yorshires with beef, as it should be.
and one type of meat - turkey, plaus pigs in blankets.

The ham comes out on Christmas evening!

Yes. And bread sauce. Multiple wet stuff to eat was a consequence legacy of my mother's dried up turkey. You have to use pigs in blankets as a dam to prevent contamination of the cheese sauce with the bread sauce. Cauli cheese is brilliant with gammon as well.

I always do cauliflower/broccoli cheese with a roast and will do so for Christmas Day! I get how some people dont like the combination of gravy and cheese sauce but I love it!

* l. you already have SIX vegetables!!!* Do I? What am I supposed to have? We have parsnips, carrots and sprouts - none of us like Swede. What am I missing?

Yep! It must not touch the gravy though...

I will be cooking it to go with our Christmas lunch.
I'm cooking for the in-laws and MIL is a bit weird about vegetables. Cauliflower cheese and parsnips are on the acceptable list!

No dosent go with gravy!!

For those of you worried about gravy contamination, that's what you have hundreds of ex-Gu ramekins for.

I know we have alot of veg we love our veggies and its all serve your self in dishes on the table not everyone will have everything listed. I would not normally do brocolli but my husband loves the stuff and thought "normal" carrots for people who dont like them roasted.

No purely due to a lack of oven space. Would love it, I will be having it for New Years day.