Cauliflower cheese

I’m from Kent and it was a main meal when I was a child. I still make it to be eaten on its own.

Because I'm on my own, cauliflower cheese to me is a main. I have half the cauli ( good sized one ) and make the cheese sauce using the roux method-----none of your packet muck.
The rest I use when doing a roast, then I make white sauce.

Can't see any problem, Anja, sounds fine to me.

If it hits the spot then that's OK!

Planning to have it as our dinner tonight.
My daughter who's a vegetarian, seem to think that it's an unbalanced meal but I don't agree.

In our hous cauliflower cheese is a dish in its own right. But it can be dressed up with crispy onions or bacon bits on top. The cauli is also often padded out with broccoli, peas, mushroom, diced carrot or any other stray vegetable that needs using up.

In restaurants around here cauliflower is never served on its own but always with a cheese sauce. I think that’s what makes it palatable for a lot of people.

We usually have it as a main dish but with added macaroni (so it's a combinationof macaroni cheese & cauliflower cheese). Adding broccoli gives it a lovely colour. I sometimes crumble cooked bacon over the top.

Definitely just as a side dish, DH would think he had been short changed if I presented that as a main dish.

Love it, and it is improved if crispy bacon bits are mixed in.

When we were growing up cauliflower cheese was a main meal. Somewhere between then and now cauliflower cheese has become a vegetable served with a meal. How or when that happened I don't know!

Usually on its own , but occasionally with a roast dinner

We have it both ways as a side dish or as a main meal. I dont use a white sauce as a base and havent for years. It's cream, cream cheese with garlic and herbs plus a little mustard and strong cheddar cheese. If we are having it as a meal I include cooked bacon lardons. Now I fancy that for dinner tonight.

I make it as a side dish these days, but growing up, we had cauliflower cheese with a slice of ham, or bacon and bread and butter.

It's a must with our Xmas dinner!

@farmgran that sounds so delicious!

Have always had it all ways. As a main served with small salad and crusty bread. As a side dish with baked fish or chicken and as a main with baked potato or pasta. Never put tomatoes in as it changes the cheese sauce flavour.
My mouth is watering.

Growing up we had it with pancakes now it is a main dish.

We had it for tea tonight. I cook it with bacon and onion in it and cauliflower up one end of the dish and macaroni up the other. It's got mustard and Worcester sauce in it and topped with panko crumbs and extra cheese!

Warminster West Wiltshire calling here. As a child we always had sausages with the cauliflour cheese and always served with mango chutney. I have continued this and my daughter in Australia makes it for her family too.
I do like the sound of the toasted almonds and will try this next time.

Main course always here although DD sometimes serves a small portion as a vegetable with meat nowadays. Actually it might relate to something she's just discovered online (although I've told her 100 times ? ) - the enormous quantities of food people eat now compared to 40 or 50 years ago. I suppose because the cheese was seen as the protein part of the meal we would have seen no need to have meat as well.

A side dish here also, especially with boiled or roast ham and roast potatoes.

I am reminded of buying those lovely big golden onions from our greengrocer, and saying my sons liked them cooked whole in a stew. My neighbour was horrified, and said she served them boiled with brown bread and butter, as it was ‘ a nice cheap tea’.

Chips ?or some nice crusty bread and a bit of salad - I’ve lived all over UK and my mum didn’t make it so just served how I fancied ?

1950s South London - cauliflower cheese was main dish.

2010s further south - cauliflower cheese usually has a bit of pasta in it or bread and butter - veggie staple supper

I like to make it with a topping of breadcrumbs, grated cheese and sesame seeds crisped for 15 minutes in a hot oven.

No ,I don't think it's unusual. As a 'nearly veggie' many of my meals are just that.

I have it as a main dish, nice bread goes with it if you have some.

According to circumstances or my mood I will have it on its own or with meat or other veg. Delicious whatever I think