Author: wendell

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.

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 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.

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.

 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.

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

caciocavalio mitica

Caciocavallo – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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 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.

Isigny St Mere Brie: Normandie is normally known for its camembert, but this brie is from there.  Very good.

Ewephoria: a sweet gouda style sheeps milk cheese from Holland that I found at the Brookville market in Cleveland Park.