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  • Cowgirl cheeses after Wings

    Cowgirl cheeses

    We sent to see Wings, the 1927 silent film, with live piano accompaniment by Andrew Simpson.  It won the first Academy Award for Best Picture.  The showing was at the Portrait Gallery, and since that is near Cowgirl Creamery, we went there afterwards.  All of the cheeses we got were very good.

    Gabietou, an Alpine cheese made from French cow’s and goat’s milk, was a semi-soft cheese.

    Colvander, was from Chapel Hill Creamery, in North Carolina.  I generally stay away from anything to do with Chapel Hill, but as this is about cheese, I’ll let it slide this time.  It was a firm cheese made from raw cow’s milk.

    Baserri, from the Barinaga Ranch Farm, in California, is made from sheep’s milk.

  • Tyrosemiophiles unite!

    Apparently there is a word for it:  Tyrosemiophile.  That is someone who collects cheese labels, or maybe just labels.  There is a french page about it, the Antiques Diva has a page about it, as does Pavel and Tomas.  We decorated our Christmas tree with Camembert boxes.

  • California brie

    California brie

    While I was in Mountain View & Milpitas earlier this week I went to a wine & cheese shop and found a Marin French Brie which was from Marin county in California.  It was a triple cream, which we always like.

     

  • La Petite Reine Camembert

    La Petite Reine Camembert

    Camembert, poetry,
    Bouquet of our meals,
    What would become life,
    If you did not exist?

    We got another Camembert when we were at Cheesetique the other day.  As it says “Fabrique en Normandie”, it was made there, but since it does not say “Camembert de Normandie”, it may not be AOC.  La Petite Reine may be made from “lightly pasteurized milk”, which must be why it is not AOC, but it was good anyway.

    Uh oh.  I can’t read French, but I think I’ve stumbled upon a cool site that has Camembert posters.  This could be dangerous, as I’m running out of wall space for all of my airline posters.

  • Abondance cheese

    Abondance is an AOC cheese from French Abondance cows, and aged.  The recipe has been unchanged since the 12th century.  It was a little bitter (tart?), which was fine, as the other cheese we tried later tasted sweet by comparison.  Don’t eat the rind.

  • Prima Donna at Cheesetique

    Prima-Donna cheese tray at Cheesetique
    We were meeting friends at RTs in Arlandria, so we stopped at Cheesetique — in Del Ray, also on Mount Vernon Ave. before dinner.
    We sat at the bar and had a mac-and-cheese with cauliflower, cheese, and bacon. The also have a large seating area in the back and a front patio.

    Then the cheese trays looked so pretty, I had to order one — I chose Prima Donna, a Dutch gouda, aged a year. Nice, but not too salty. It came on a wooden cheeseboard with bread, crackers, cornichons and red grapes. The oniony crackers were a bit much with the mild cheese, but the rest worked. $8 for one cheese plate.

    We had a North Carolina IPA with it (Brevard Brewing Company) — don’t know enough to know if a wine would have been better.

    You get 10% off your store order if you buy at the restaurant, but I forgot to ask. I wanted to get a French and a German cheese for a friend. They had a ton of French cheeses, and only one German one —  Cambozola, a blue cheese.

  • Grilled Halloumi

     Halloumi is a fine grilling cheese.  It is a Greek cheese made from sheep’s milk and goat’s milk.  It doesn’t melt, but browns and turns a bit crispy.  Next time we should brush the cheese with olive oil.

     

  • latest cheeses

    AKT got some cheese at Whole Foods.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    They were clockwise from upper left:

    http://www.gourmet-food.com/italian-cheese/cacio-de-roma-cheese-1000526.aspx

    gran queso sole 2.0

    Murray’s Cheese – Sole Gran Queso

     

    www.murrayscheese.com/roth-kase-sole–gran–queso.html

    This hybrid comes from the heart of it all in Monroe, Wisconsin. The format, texture, and general recipe are meant to embody the ubiquitous Spanish sheep milk …



    caciocavalio mitica

    Caciocavallo – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

     

    Caciocavallo is a type of stretched-curd cheese made out of sheep’s or cow’s milk. It is produced throughout Southern Italy, particularly in the Apennine …

     

  • Valentine’s day, 2013

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    The carrot dinner has been postponed until Saturday, so we had cheese tonight.

    [a heart-shaped bloomy-rind cheese that I can’t find the label for]

    Nancy’s cheese ball

    Grana Padano, a firm cheese from Italian cows.

    Danish Blue, one of our favorites.

  • Happy 2013!

    Ashe County Cheese for the new year

    Happy New Year!

    My brother gave us some Ashe County Cheese for Christmas!  You can visit their cheese store most days of the week, but check their schedule to see if they will be making cheese that day.  It is in West Jefferson, about 15 miles north of Deep Gap (Deep Gap is on NC 421 between North Wilkesboro and Boone).  We’ll have to go visit them sometime.

    Redneck Romano is a nice, hard romano-style cheese.

    Carolina Blue Marble is their soft blue-veined cheese.

    We also had a gruyere which was supposed to be for the fondue set that he also gave us, but we didn’t bring the fondue set back on the train and Mom is shipping it to us.  I hope we have some gruyere left by the time we get the set.  Look for the fondue set in another post soon.