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Do you have cauliflower cheese with your christmas dinner?

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MrsMotherHen · 15/12/2017 08:01

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?

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Efnisien · 15/12/2017 18:04

cheeeeeeese even!!

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MrsMotherHen · 15/12/2017 19:36

Not all of us will have all 6 veg! Although I will give it a bloody good go!
I dont think christmas dinner is that stressful really.
Cook meat in advance
Veggies in steamer or in with roasties
Make gravy in advance
......I have probably just been a bit smug there and will be mega stressed christmas afternoon.....although am a bit of a cheat we have readymade red cabbage and fancy bacon and chestnut sprouts. So that will save some time

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Lovemusic33 · 15/12/2017 19:58

Yes, never used to have it with a roast as worried about cheese sauce with gravy but after being served it as someone else’s house I decided it does work.

Toomanycats99 · 15/12/2017 20:02

It's compulsory with all roast dinners!

MyGirlDaisy · 15/12/2017 20:03

Yes - it may not be traditional but my Dad is 91 and he loves it so I make it for him (& everybody else can have some if they wish!)

Bloodybridget · 16/12/2017 05:34

No, I'd never heard of having cauliflower cheese with a roast, pre-Mumsnet. If you're having a vegetarian meal without meaty gravy, that's different, of course. CC is a main dish for me, not a side.

LolitaLempicka · 16/12/2017 05:44

I was going to say no way as it is not traditional, but I think it would be a bloody lovely addition.

SpareASquare · 16/12/2017 05:49

Yes, a big dish of it. Au gratin style. Yum!!

AstridWhite · 16/12/2017 05:53

No. I love cauliflower cheese but it has no place on a Christmas dinner plate. It just seems like overkill and the flavours would fight.My Christmas dinner is all about the gravy and the stuffing and the roast potatoes. I don't see that working on the same plate as a cheese sauce.

I'd maybe make it for Boxing Day though, with bubble and squeak and cold turkey and ham. That would be nice.

AstridWhite · 16/12/2017 05:57

No, I'd never heard of having cauliflower cheese with a roast, pre-Mumsnet.

Me neither, but this is the place where I also discovered that people have mashed AND roast potatoes together, stuffing AND Yorkshire puddings with turkey and that sweetcorn is an acceptable alternative to leafy green vegetables.

LolitaLempicka · 16/12/2017 06:02

Having re-read the thread someone suggested LEEKS in cheese sauce! I think this would be even lovelier than cauliflower cheese and is going on my menu immediately!

nooka · 16/12/2017 06:05

We have cauliflower cheese because dd loves it and it's super easy. I just do an extra dish earlier in December and stick it in the deep freeze in a foil tray. It goes in the over when the roast comes out.

I don't do half the other stuff you do though. We only have one meat, no sausages, no yorkshire puddings unless it's a beef joint), no separate stuffing (unless we have lamb in which case I'll do the stuffing in a butternut squash), and no sprouts. Only four of us though.

haircolourhelp · 16/12/2017 06:45

Yes.
I did this for first time last year and it was a big hit with all.
I'll make it the day before and reheat on the day.

Cousinit · 16/12/2017 06:55

Cauliflower cheese is great wit roast chicken so I suppose it would be fine for Christmas dinner. I love cranberry and bread sauce with turkey though and I think cauliflower cheese would be a weird addition alongside those.

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