Cauliflower cheese.

Maggieanne I'm only on page 1 but I'm sure we could keep it going for another 3 pages!

What is everyone's opinion on broccoli bake? Or a mixture of broccoli and cauliflower cheese?

I'm glad to know that Cornwall still has cauliflowers. Do we still import a lot from Brittany? We were told that exporting cauliflowers from Brittany to the UK was the reason that Brittany Ferries started running.

Shysal I am not surprised your cauli's were enormous they most probably came from the lands around where I live on the north coast of Cornwall and it has been a bumper crop.
Today while still dark the fields were lit up with the lights of the transporters with the pickers loading up.

Enjoy while they are still plentiful.
Next we will be seeing the newborn lambs.
I would have our unpredictable weather any day than live elsewhere.

Four pages for cauliflower cheese, unbelievable! But, it does deserve it, real comfort food, I like some of the suggestions. Stansgran, I will try the bay leaves, cauli does have a lingering er, smell.

Similar to one I cooked earlier, but I didn't use egg

That sounds good Marianne!

The best and the easiest I have found. Mix a tub of creme fraishe with one egg, teaspoon of mustard, grated cheddar plus seasoning. Pour over cooked cauliflower grated cheese on top and cook in oven until brown.

We sometimes have Cauliflower Cheese with a Sunday roast if there are a few of us. I just par boil some florets, make a cheese sauce with a strong cheese then top with more grated cheese and wholemeal breadcrumbs and shove it in the oven to brown. I think cauliflower without a sauce is a very bland and boring vegetable. Indians manage to transform it into something quite exciting, Cauliflower Bhaji yum!

Check out the veg. stall in Sidwell St., Legs55 - I managed to buy a lovely large one for £1.10p earlier today. We're so lucky here in the West Country aren't we?

All this talk of cauliflower cheese! I just had to make some. I've done it Pittcity's way but love the sound of kitty's, with bacon and garlic. I wonder how many of us are having cauliflower cheese one way or another tonight?

This has made my.mouth water, so I have just made a cauliflower cheese, roux, strong cheddar and mustard and we are having it tonight with ham and chips. I will blame you all if I don't lose wright this week

I use a head of broccoli and a head of cauliflower and 2/3 leeks all steamed and then sauces, breadcrumbs on top. Sometime put spinach at the bottom of the dish and then cauli on top before putting sauce on.

florabunda I make a tuna casserole that my US mum made since the 1960s with crushed crisps on top of a chopped tomato layer. They are yummy that way and less stodgy that breadcrumbs.

I do love my cauli-bakes and do them differently sometimes. Love the bacon idea. What about chorizo? Could be a nice main. We have it at Christmas, too.

A bit of nutmeg ground on top is nice for the cheese/mornay/bechamel or whatever sauce you use.

I make cheese sauce with half cheddar half goats cheese...delicious!...

Anyone like cauliflower broken into florets and roasted in olive oil with chopped bacon and garlicglives, When it's ready, sprinkle with parmesan and put in the oven for 5 minutes or so.

For the ultimate cauliflower cheese add a tub of mascarpone and good cheddar to your white sauce, together with English mustard. Mix Panko breadcrumbs with extra cheese to sprinkle on top. Okay, yes it's a faff, but if you're using lovely ingredients it's worth a bit of faff! Eat half, freeze half. Roasted tomatoes with big Portobello mushrooms, also roasted. Mmmmm!

I love cauliflower but only with grated cheese on it just before it goes to the plate, strong cheddar, can't eat many sauces so that's the way I do it.

You are almost at macaroni cheese LouLou21
That's a whole new subject! Well not really as I use the same cheese sauce cheat for both.

Our kind of cauliflower cheese with plenty of cheese sauce add to cooked pasta spirals more cheese on top and baked delicious, a cauliflower pasta bake.

For a change, instead of breadcrumbs or crushed crisps as a topping, try well crushed pork scratchings (obviously not for vegetarians).
I don't like pork scratchings 'as they come' but as a savoury topping they're very useful!
I don't worry about the fat content as you only need a few at a time, the rest are kept in an airtight container.

If you are boiling the cauliflower or steaming it then add a couple of bay leaves as it seems to negate the smell.( someone up thread mentioned their DH hated the smell)

Instead of breadcrumbs, has anyone tried crushed crisps? - cheese and onion or smoky bacon are good. Open packet of crisps first, then smash with a rolling pin, sprinkle over cauliflower cheese. Evil, like deep fried mars bars.

Leftover cauliflower cheese?

That's like Delia's suggestion of what to do with leftover wine!

Actually, it does sound rather yummy, may try that next time, but I will have to make extra.

Didn't see that any of you mentioned the most delicious soup you could make with the left over cauliflower cheese.
Cut it up and heat in extra milk.Then put it through a mill.... texture to suit you

Cauliflowers 84p in Morrisons this lunch time. I bought 12

I notice lots of you add a bit of kick! I do it by adding a bit of cayenne.