If you have cauliflower cheese as a main meal .....?

j.e.j.

easy wrote: »

Now, being brought up in a very carnivorous yorkshire family, I always viewed cauliflower cheese as an accompaniment to a "roast dinner".

However, as we are trying to reduce our food spend, and increase the proportion of veg we eat, when we formulated this weeks menu, I bravely said we would have Cauliflower cheese for tonights dinner.

Now I thought I'll make it the usual way, perhaps with just a hint of pancetta in the sauce. But will that fill 3 of us up? What do you have with it ??

..bacon and mop up the cheese sauce with some crusty bread

rachbc

we never have it as a main but as a child we had it with jacket spuds and something green.

irenee

LIghtly cooked cauliflower pieces (all of it including the stem) or cauli + brocolli bits, smothered in cheese sauce - placed in an ovenproof dish, surrounded by halved baby tomatoes, scattered with chunky crisp breadcrumbs and grated Cheddar - toasted under the grill / roasted in oven - until bubbling

Served with a green salad - heaven on earth !!

TudorRose

When I used to make it for my family we always had toast with it and usually sauasges or bacon with it. Not always though as had to watch the budget & as some one else said cauliflower cheese is a complete meal.
The toast is lovely with it & it helps to bulk it out.

lostinrates

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Cauli cheese AND meat AND yorkshires AND potatoes AND more veg AND stuffing AND everything else: And they wonder why people are so flaming fat these days.

as with all things, its about portions and moderation. A plate full of rich cauli cheese is probably as calorific as a plate with a small portions each of meat, some other veg and a small portion of cauli cheese.

fwiw I'd never have stuffing on the same plate as yorkshire pudidng for just this reason....to me yorkshire pudding goes with beef with no stuffing, (or is eaten rarely for pudding with cream and syrup!), and stuffing goes in rolled meats or into cavities and fulfills much the same function. in the same way, we have cauli with beef, but wouldn't have yorkshire pudding or potatos with that, but might well have another veg or two.

Its much easier to eat a varied plateful of stuff when there are more of you...because it gets used up. A cauliflower used as a side would last me a week, and not store that well in the fridge. When I make cauli cheese as a side its more often than not for two people, so I use half a cauli and we have some left overs for another portion the next day, then cauli for crudite or soup from the other half.

liney

Cauli cheese with the roast or boiled ham on Sunday,and then on Monday I add cooked pasta and reheat as a bake.

meritaten

I sometimes serve cauli cheese as a main for dinner. with a nice green veg - savoy cabbage blanched then stir fried with a little butter and garlic. or, perhaps some steamed mange tout peas..........or plain boiled carrots. that would be on veggie night, which, btw, OH hasnt yet realised is once a week!

Shelly_29

I eat it with garlic bread is yummy

stiltwalker

Anything really rich like a cheese sauce or a potato dauphinoise (sp?) goes well with a sprinkling of crispy bacon bits over the top and som steamed greens like spring (or winter) greens or really green cabbage like savoy or January king. You get to feel all virtuous about eating your greens whilst using them to mop up all that oozy gorgeous rich sauce.

lovesabargain123

pasta...yum my mouths watering

or a jacket spud