My favorite season: figs. Just a grocery store danish blue, but fresh make it elegantly simple.
Cheese at the E Street Cinema
At our local art theater, E Street Cinema, they now have an Artisan Cheese Plate, featuring 4 incredible cheeses from Italy and France; Galbani Bel Paese, Boule d’Or Mimolette, Istara P’Tit Basque and President Emmental. Served with Toasted Pita Bread and a mixture of Candied Pecans and cranberries. What could be better than cheese and a movie?
Boone Creak Creamery on TV!
Ed from Book Creek Creamery sent me a note saying that KET tv is going to feature them on Bluegrass and Backroads:
http://bluegrassandbackroads.com/2012/08/boone-creek-creamery/
We got some of their cheese when we were in Kentucky last November for Pablo’s wedding.
Illinois cheese
AKT got some cheese from the farmer’s market there. It was from Ludwig Farmstead Creamery in Illinois.
Feather Ridge – a semi-hard raw milk cheese.
Jake’s Wheel – patterned after Havarti.
Vermillion River Blue – a very nice triple cream blue.
AKT also got a nice cheese knife, but the mouse’s tail broke off after the first use.
Georgia cheese
Amtrak Cheese
Calvert Woodley. Italian and Dutch. Fontina and Parrano.
good
another rooftop cheese
Brillat savarin cave aged, a cow’s milk triple-cream brie cheese from Burgandy or Normandie. Very good.
Ubriacone – a very nice aged cow’s milk spiked with wine
Quadrello di bufala, they say it is a stinky (washed rind) cheese, but ours was a fairly firm nice smelling cheese.
Ewe’s milk blue, which I think was a Whole Foods product, or maybe an Old Chatam Shepherding Company cheese, was very good.
New sheep cheese in Maryland
Maryland now has a sheep dairy! Shepherd’s Manor Creamery is now producing a very nice tome style sheep’s milk cheese. They also have a sheep yogurt, which is very nice.
Barbeclette
The other day we got some barbeclettes, made by Boska Holland, but we probably got them from Amazon.
They’re designed to be used on an outdoor grill, but we used them on an indoor gas range, and they worked very well. We used Raclette cheese.
We had it on potatoes, cornichons, and the pickled carrots we got for Christmas. It was a good, quick, and easy meal.
On the train
On the way back from N.C. we had a cheese party in the club car.
It featured Crave Brothers’ Petit Frere, a washed rind soft ripened cheese. From Wisconsin cows.