Cheese Admiration and Celebration
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I feel like we need a “drool” button for this thread 🤣8
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OK, back to my OP obsession: The Cypress Grove Humboldt Fog. So good!
It might be the best food ever . . . but then again, morels exist, and they aren't even cheese. Hard question! Not too many other foods in the running, for me (maybe a few . . . but I know it's personal taste, more importantly).
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Cheese is life. I quite still like to make a good old grilled cheese sandwich with tomato soup.
I also eat chees a lot just on it's own. I keep the Babybel cheese and Laughing Cow to have with veggies or some sort of cracker/pretzel. I like cheese spreads (like the Boursin).
I'll just cut off a bug chunk of cheese (brie or bellviato...smoked gouda - or any smoked cheese really) and have it with olives, pickles and cold cuts .... like a basic b charcuterie.
I also love limburger sandwiches. I know that puts some ppl off but the taste is better than the smell, lol.3 -
Little bit off topic as it’s a combo but - feta and olives, or small spicy peppers stuffed with cream cheese. Treated myself to both today with a baguette - incredibly tasty 😀3
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@AnnPT77 what’s the layer in the middle of that amazing looking cheese? Is it ash or something like nettles?OK, back to my OP obsession: The Cypress Grove Humboldt Fog. So good!
It might be the best food ever . . . but then again, morels exist, and they aren't even cheese. Hard question! Not too many other foods in the running, for me (maybe a few . . . but I know it's personal taste, more importantly).
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claireychn074 wrote: »
@AnnPT77 what’s the layer in the middle of that amazing looking cheese? Is it ash or something like nettles?OK, back to my OP obsession: The Cypress Grove Humboldt Fog. So good!
It might be the best food ever . . . but then again, morels exist, and they aren't even cheese. Hard question! Not too many other foods in the running, for me (maybe a few . . . but I know it's personal taste, more importantly).
That's my understanding, that it's a layer of edible vegetable ash.
WRT your other post: Please, do feel free to contribute posts to this thread about your favorite cheese combinations.
I have a feta I adore from a local farmstead cheesemaker, but many fetas are good.
I was skeptical, but there was a TikTok recipe folks were viralizing, so I tried it. One puts cherry tomatoes, a single unchopped hunk of feta, some minced garlic, maybe some pepper, and a bit of olive oil over all, in a baking dish, then bakes at 400F until all gets soft. Stir to mix, use on pasta. Ridiculously easy, so tasty! (I started doing a separate baking dish of onions and fresh mushrooms alongside, then to that adding handfuls of spinach in the last few minutes while there was still some mushroom liquid. Can't combine with the tomato/feta dish while baking, because the tomatoes are then too hydrated to roast to richness, but combine once it's out of the oven.)
Another thing I like, especially to take to potlucks (mostly so I don't eat it all myself!) is to get a package of frozen filo. Thaw, layer with olive oil spray (time saver vs. the traditional painted-on melted butter), put in baking pan; fill with a mix of ricotta, feta, eggs, garlic, an herb (I like minced fresh rosemary), pepper, maybe a bit minced onions; top with more feta/olive-oil layers and crimp/trim; bake until cooked through and crispy/lightly browned. People think it's fancy, but it's not hard . . . and it's soooo good.2 -
@AnnPT77 That Filo wrapped recipe sounds amazing!!
A while back I posted that our Christmas Eve tradition is to do a raclette, however we had a hard time finding raclette cheese this year and ended up using a mixture of Gruyere and a bit of raclette (not the same melting characteristics 🙁). Our favourite deli said that they hadn't been able to get raclette cheese for about a year. Well, I got a phone call from them last week to tell me they'd finally got some in. A little late for Christmas.....but maybe a new Spring tradition?? Haha2 -
claireychn074 wrote: »
@AnnPT77 what’s the layer in the middle of that amazing looking cheese? Is it ash or something like nettles?OK, back to my OP obsession: The Cypress Grove Humboldt Fog. So good!
It might be the best food ever . . . but then again, morels exist, and they aren't even cheese. Hard question! Not too many other foods in the running, for me (maybe a few . . . but I know it's personal taste, more importantly).
That's my understanding, that it's a layer of edible vegetable ash.
WRT your other post: Please, do feel free to contribute posts to this thread about your favorite cheese combinations.
I have a feta I adore from a local farmstead cheesemaker, but many fetas are good.
I was skeptical, but there was a TikTok recipe folks were viralizing, so I tried it. One puts cherry tomatoes, a single unchopped hunk of feta, some minced garlic, maybe some pepper, and a bit of olive oil over all, in a baking dish, then bakes at 400F until all gets soft. Stir to mix, use on pasta. Ridiculously easy, so tasty! (I started doing a separate baking dish of onions and fresh mushrooms alongside, then to that adding handfuls of spinach in the last few minutes while there was still some mushroom liquid. Can't combine with the tomato/feta dish while baking, because the tomatoes are then too hydrated to roast to richness, but combine once it's out of the oven.)
Another thing I like, especially to take to potlucks (mostly so I don't eat it all myself!) is to get a package of frozen filo. Thaw, layer with olive oil spray (time saver vs. the traditional painted-on melted butter), put in baking pan; fill with a mix of ricotta, feta, eggs, garlic, an herb (I like minced fresh rosemary), pepper, maybe a bit minced onions; top with more feta/olive-oil layers and crimp/trim; bake until cooked through and crispy/lightly browned. People think it's fancy, but it's not hard . . . and it's soooo good.
Eek, I just re-read myself. The bolded should be "more filo/olive-oil layers", not more feta. It's an "enclosed in filo" thing.2 -
claireychn074 wrote: »
@AnnPT77 what’s the layer in the middle of that amazing looking cheese? Is it ash or something like nettles?OK, back to my OP obsession: The Cypress Grove Humboldt Fog. So good!
It might be the best food ever . . . but then again, morels exist, and they aren't even cheese. Hard question! Not too many other foods in the running, for me (maybe a few . . . but I know it's personal taste, more importantly).
That's my understanding, that it's a layer of edible vegetable ash.
WRT your other post: Please, do feel free to contribute posts to this thread about your favorite cheese combinations.
I have a feta I adore from a local farmstead cheesemaker, but many fetas are good.
I was skeptical, but there was a TikTok recipe folks were viralizing, so I tried it. One puts cherry tomatoes, a single unchopped hunk of feta, some minced garlic, maybe some pepper, and a bit of olive oil over all, in a baking dish, then bakes at 400F until all gets soft. Stir to mix, use on pasta. Ridiculously easy, so tasty! (I started doing a separate baking dish of onions and fresh mushrooms alongside, then to that adding handfuls of spinach in the last few minutes while there was still some mushroom liquid. Can't combine with the tomato/feta dish while baking, because the tomatoes are then too hydrated to roast to richness, but combine once it's out of the oven.)
Another thing I like, especially to take to potlucks (mostly so I don't eat it all myself!) is to get a package of frozen filo. Thaw, layer with olive oil spray (time saver vs. the traditional painted-on melted butter), put in baking pan; fill with a mix of ricotta, feta, eggs, garlic, an herb (I like minced fresh rosemary), pepper, maybe a bit minced onions; top with more feta/olive-oil layers and crimp/trim; bake until cooked through and crispy/lightly browned. People think it's fancy, but it's not hard . . . and it's soooo good.
Eek, I just re-read myself. The bolded should be "more filo/olive-oil layers", not more feta. It's an "enclosed in filo" thing.
No no no - I’m sure it should read more feta! Can never have too much feta! 🤣1 -
claireychn074 wrote: »claireychn074 wrote: »
@AnnPT77 what’s the layer in the middle of that amazing looking cheese? Is it ash or something like nettles?OK, back to my OP obsession: The Cypress Grove Humboldt Fog. So good!
It might be the best food ever . . . but then again, morels exist, and they aren't even cheese. Hard question! Not too many other foods in the running, for me (maybe a few . . . but I know it's personal taste, more importantly).
That's my understanding, that it's a layer of edible vegetable ash.
WRT your other post: Please, do feel free to contribute posts to this thread about your favorite cheese combinations.
I have a feta I adore from a local farmstead cheesemaker, but many fetas are good.
I was skeptical, but there was a TikTok recipe folks were viralizing, so I tried it. One puts cherry tomatoes, a single unchopped hunk of feta, some minced garlic, maybe some pepper, and a bit of olive oil over all, in a baking dish, then bakes at 400F until all gets soft. Stir to mix, use on pasta. Ridiculously easy, so tasty! (I started doing a separate baking dish of onions and fresh mushrooms alongside, then to that adding handfuls of spinach in the last few minutes while there was still some mushroom liquid. Can't combine with the tomato/feta dish while baking, because the tomatoes are then too hydrated to roast to richness, but combine once it's out of the oven.)
Another thing I like, especially to take to potlucks (mostly so I don't eat it all myself!) is to get a package of frozen filo. Thaw, layer with olive oil spray (time saver vs. the traditional painted-on melted butter), put in baking pan; fill with a mix of ricotta, feta, eggs, garlic, an herb (I like minced fresh rosemary), pepper, maybe a bit minced onions; top with more feta/olive-oil layers and crimp/trim; bake until cooked through and crispy/lightly browned. People think it's fancy, but it's not hard . . . and it's soooo good.
Eek, I just re-read myself. The bolded should be "more filo/olive-oil layers", not more feta. It's an "enclosed in filo" thing.
No no no - I’m sure it should read more feta! Can never have too much feta! 🤣
Non no no - as much feta as you like! 😉🤣
You can use buckets of the stuff, potentially. Just put it in the middle, between the filo "crusts". Use a deeper baking dish, bake longer, maybe drop the bake temp a bit so the nice flaky filo doesn't get over-browned, make sure the flavorings are also adjusted proportionately. Don't diss the ricotta, either, for smoother texture and to moderate the salt from the feta (yeah, I know that salt is good - I loooove salt).
(Kidding around, as I know you are, but really: Nothing wrong with more feta. 😋)1 -
OK, back to my OP obsession: The Cypress Grove Humboldt Fog. So good!
It might be the best food ever . . . but then again, morels exist, and they aren't even cheese. Hard question! Not too many other foods in the running, for me (maybe a few . . . but I know it's personal taste, more importantly).
I’ve died and gone to heaven finding this thread! Ann, that Humboldt Fog is my second favorite cheese, only beat out by Black Label Cambozola. I go to the local market almost every week and buy a big old chunk of the Cambozola.
I’ve yet to meet a cheese didn’t like. I love them all. Aside from the local farmers market( I get a lot of fun cheeses from Aldi. They’ve got a great borgonzola. They also have some wonderful goat cheeses- one with blueberries and another with cranberries. I love a good white Stilton with mango and ginger or lemon peel. And Raclette…. Oh Raclette!
I could go on and on really. I love cheese so much that I’ve now just started making my own. Freshly made ricotta is out of this world. The grocery stores can keep their tubs of mediocre ricotta now! Lol I’ve got a butterkase aging, as well as a salata ricotta and one called Guido’s hard Italian cheese. Just today I started on a farmhouse cheddar. I can’t wait to taste it…in 1-9 months! 😂🤣 Oh but they’ll be so worth the wait. I do plan to try my hand at making my own Cambozola, probably next week. But I want to make them all- Brie, Camembert, Stilton, and if I can find a source for goat and sheep milk, you better watch out! 😂
But anyway. I love cheese. It’s my favorite once a week treat- every weekend my husband and I make a nice big cheese tray. I mean, I have cheese every day, but it’s a bite or two. The cheese tray is heaven, absolute heaven.
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My butterkase, fresh from the press last week.
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@Nicoles0305, you and I like a lot of the same cheeses! The white Stiltons, both mango/ginger and lemon peel, are wonderful, I agree. I haven't tried the Black Label Cambozola, but I'll have to look for it. I understand that it's a milder blue, and I do like blue cheese, but to me the blues are a little more specialized to eat or use, and as someone who lives alone it's hard to use up a big chunk while it's a peak stage.
I've been too lazy to even try making cheese (unless labneh counts, which I think it doesn't), but I do enjoy my local cheesemakers' wares. Your efforts are inspiring, though, and your butterkase looks lovely!0 -
My cheese anecdote: Many years ago I was on a diving trip. We were nipping across the Channel to dive in Normandy. (The D-Day landings make for some of the most historically important wrecks one could hope to dive.)
I lent a friend a tank. He wanted to pay me; I didn't want money. He insisted; eventually the idea of being paid in cheese occurred to me. We were going to France, after all, and French cheese is nice.
To my surprise, I wasn't paid in French cheese. He went to a specialty cheese shop in Bermondsey in London, and got me a fine selection of superb English cheese.
My scuba club's underground currency for favours has been cheese ever since.8 -
My cheese anecdote: Many years ago I was on a diving trip. We were nipping across the Channel to dive in Normandy. (The D-Day landings make for some of the most historically important wrecks one could hope to dive.)
I lent a friend a tank. He wanted to pay me; I didn't want money. He insisted; eventually the idea of being paid in cheese occurred to me. We were going to France, after all, and French cheese is nice.
To my surprise, I wasn't paid in French cheese. He went to a specialty cheese shop in Bermondsey in London, and got me a fine selection of superb English cheese.
My scuba club's underground currency for favours has been cheese ever since.
Does your club accept members who don't dive, but are in for the cheese? 😉
Just kidding, of course - but that sounds like a wonderful club tradition. My rowing club tends to go in more for lattes and baked goods as "thank yous", or the occasional beer. Those are nice, too, but . . . . cheeeeese! 😋2 -
I'm on vacation on the Canary Islands and have had a cheese tapa apparently unique to this location known as questo ahumado. It is a smoked cheese that is melted under the broiler either on bread or served like raclette with bread rolls. It is sweetened with either a drizzle of date molasses, blueberry jam or marmalade. Pictured twice. Once at a great tapas place grilled on a plate on its own with blueberry jam, another time at a mediocre tapas place grilled on bread with date molasses on the side.
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I made homemade ricotta yesterday, which turned into homemade ravioli today. I did some with crab, and some with spinach and mushrooms. Both had plenty of ricotta. The spinach and mushroom was the family favorite. Luckily I made enough to freeze some for another meal. And I still have about 1.5 cups of fresh ricotta left in the fridge. Ricotta is so easy to make, and 100 times better homemade than it is store bought. I may never buy it again. It is literally just bringing a gallon of milk up to just shy of simmering, throwing in some lemon juice, and letting the ricotta float to the top. So easy and SO GOOD!
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@acpgee, based on this and other recipes you've posted in other threads, I really need to find some pomegranate molasses (not stocked at my usual haunts, but I can cast a wider net). That queso ahumado with jam/molasses sounds worth trying at home!
@Nicoles0305, just lemon juice and hot milk? I think I could handle that, and I do like ricotta. Will put it on my list of things to try!0 -
@AnnPT77
pomegranate molasses is a middle eastern ingredient so find it at the ethnic grocer. Substitute balsamic vinegar if you can't find it, though that is quite a lot more expensive. If you do make it to a Turkish or Middle Eastern shop, also pick up some date molasses which is much sweeter and can be used to replace molasses if you want more fruity complexity.1 -
My post on the cheese we brought home from vacation from the Canarias seems to have disappeared. Here is our cheese haul.
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