Cheese Admiration and Celebration

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  • drmwc
    drmwc Posts: 1,161 Member
    I went caving over new year . I was introduced to Stilton with dates. It's a great combination; I thoroughly recommend it.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,012 Member

    Enjoying local cheeses from a Dutch market. I’m like a drunk. The more I eat the less I remember what they were:

    Gouda with cumin (was outstanding in grilled cheese sandwiches!)

    18 mos Aged Gouda (ate one, have one left)

    Some kind of delicious sheep or goat cheese with crunchy things in it. They look vaguely like sesame seeds but aren’t.

    Have an unopened vacuum pack of some sheep or goat cheese with tomato and herbs. Don’t think it’s another Gouda.

    And today, picked up a small bit of double cream sweet fresh cheese with chunks of ginger in it. Machelle ingwer cheese.

    Wish I could bring some of this goodness home with me.

    Sampling all the cheeses on display at the market was like a cheese party!

    Oh and also a cup of homemade quark cheese with fruit. It’s normally thicker, but with the addition of cream to thin it a little, it’s a dessert. Texture of ice cream, but not frozen.

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  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,896 Spam Moderator

    Caraway? That would be a good addition to some cheeses.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,012 Member

    I thought that but it doesn’t taste like caraway and is shaped different. Some of them are too big for sesame seed, which was my first thought

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,580 Community Helper

    I went to the cheese source photographed for my OP on this thread, hoping they'd have a couple of my staple calorie-efficient cheeses in stock. No such luck. I had to console myself, so I got a couple of yummy Cypress Grove cheeses, around a third-pound each of Truffle Tremor and Lamb Chopper.

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  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 8,343 Member

    I have extra fresh mozarella leftover from a recipe. Any ideas on what to do with it, besides putting it in a sandwich?

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,012 Member

    well, obvs, a pizza. Melt it in a quesadilla? dice into a salad? Cheese toast? Melt it in a pan til crispy and eat as a cracker? (Does that even work with mozarella?)

    That’s all I got. “Leftover mozarella”’is never a problem in my house. 😂


    I’ve been enjoying the cheese of the month club so much, I’ve been treating myself to “better” cheese at the grocery, too Current fave is a brand called Artikaas Their 36 month aged Gouda is lovely with crackers, though crumbly.


    more to share with the dog!

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,012 Member
    edited June 19

    oooooh or an excuse for a caprese salad?

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,580 Community Helper

    Is the mozzarella firm enough to marinate in seasoned balsamic, cut into small chunks?

    Or use it on roasted eggplant slices or roll-ups?

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,580 Community Helper

    I am weak.

    In my defense:

    • There was a sale.
    • It's a whole cheese, but it's a mini-round, just under a pound.
    • As I've posted before, it's my favorite cheese 😋
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  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,896 Spam Moderator

    Humboldt Fog is one of the very best. Enjoy every bite!

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,012 Member

    https://sweetgrassdairy.com/pages/cheese


    This double cream from South Georgia was in our last cheese of the month club. It was outstanding. Strongly recommend it if it turns up at your cheesemonger.

  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 8,343 Member

    Grilled some halloumi and made a low fat air fryer cheesecake on the weekend.

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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,012 Member
    edited July 22

    love me some halloumi. Whenever I find it, I buy several packs because I don’t know when I’ll see it again.

    Discovered it at a restaurant in London. I thought it was grilled chicken breast on the salad. Didn’t realize til I dragged Mr S back the next day for a do over that it was a grilled plank of cheese.

    Mind blown. 🤯


    I like to brown it in a dry pan and eat it in a wrap with lettuce and tomato, or dice and it eat on salad.

    It’s such a treat!

  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 8,343 Member

    For lovers of cheese on the grill, the Serious Eats site had an article on cheeses you can toss on the grill. Apparently halloumi is not the only one.

    https://www.seriouseats.com/best-cheeses-to-grill-halloumi-kefalotyri-queso-panela

  • SafariGalNYC
    SafariGalNYC Posts: 2,317 Member
    edited July 28
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    One of my all time favorite cheeses.. highly recommend!!!

  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,896 Spam Moderator

    @SafariGalNYC - never seen that here in Oregon. I bet production is small enough we never will. With a name like that, it HAS to be good!

  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 8,343 Member

    We are going to Amsterdam today for the weekend and I am so disappointed about new restrictions that forbid importing cheese for personal consumption back to the UK. Apparently there is an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the EU. At least I can bring back brined herring and smoked chicken. I guess I will have to buy a few sandwiches filled with oude gietenkaaas while I am there.

  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 19,239 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48697749#Comment_48697749

    Greek saganaki cheese is my hands down fav to put on the grill, it's amazing with some hot honey and crusty Turkish bread!

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,012 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48718483#Comment_48718483

    oooh thanks for the tip! I’ll have to look for that.

  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 871 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48697271#Comment_48697271

    I bought some at my local Walmart (US) and wasn't impressed when I pan fried them.

    But then while visiting the UK recently, a friend toasted some slices in a George Foreman grill and they were wonderful. Not sure what made the difference.

  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 19,239 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48719719#Comment_48719719

    May very well just have been different quality. Good haloumi is excellent, not good haloumi is very average.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,012 Member
    edited August 10

    I bought two brands at the local middle eastern grocery. The one that was $.50 cheaper, well it tasted like it.

    We’ll be in London later this year, and our room has a small stove top. I may buy some and cook it up just to see if it’s better quality in Europe than here.

    Lidl had a great tasting store brand halloumi and the price was reasonable, but they stopped carrying it at the same time they dropped their wonderful (and dirt cheap!) store brand cottage cheese. I loath the Daisy cottage cheese they carry now. It has a weird aftertaste and mouth feel.

    It drives me nuts when they stock something i love and then discontinue it. They’re bad for that. Now, it’s fat free half and half that seems to be gone. 🤬

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