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cheese eaters?
Do you like cheese, specifically interesting cheese?
What cheeses do you like? How do you eat them, and what accompanies them when you eat them? I love cheese, but I'm only just starting to experiment with the more unusual or strongly flavored cheeses. My favorites are usually mild soft or semi-soft cheeses, but so far I've liked everything that I've tried.
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Stilton with pears.... Mmmmm stinky goodness.
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Stilton is my most recent experiment. I quite like it. The first bite or two is really strong, but after that, I guess my nose gets used to the smell and the flavor mellows a bit. I guess I'll have to buy some pears.
I've got my first batch of just Stilton in the fridge now. Before this I had some "Double Gloucester w/Stilton".
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I grew up in England- the cheese there rocks. Much better than the crap here in the US. It depends what you're going to do with it- on toast I'd have Red Leicester, in a sandwich Cheshire, on a burger Cheddar, on a cracker Wensleydale. Safeway used to sell Cheshire- but they quit that so now I buy the sharpest Cheddar thay have and deal with it.
Cheers, Paul.
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12-08-2006, 09:27 PM
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I like aged dry peppercorn jack. "Peppato"
If you ever make up to Sonoma, check out the Sonoma Cheese Factory store on the square. They have a cold case with about 20 different Jack varieties you can sample 'til you're stuffed. also, at Dean and DeLuca upvalley in St. Helena they have a huge selection. Acrossed the street at V. Sattui winery you must try the three year old Gouda. Crazy sharp! I also like Gorgonzola, Brie, sharp cheddar, smoked cheddar, Munster, Asiago, pepper jack, string cheese, Gruiyere, etc. You ever had baked brie with jalepeno jelly? KT
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The Kroger here has some interesting cheeses in their deli section, but when I really want to spend some money on cheese I drive into Houston to the closest Whole Foods. They have a huge cheese section with cheeses from around the world.
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Havarti. Stinks bad but still love the stuff. Hard to get good stuff in the US but Europe is wonderful if you like cheese.
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I've seen a couple of recipes for baked brie, but not tried any yet. The Whole Foods here had a brie sampler one day where they spread the top of the brie with fig preserves and put out little melba toast crackers. Man, that's some tasty stuff.
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Dill Havarti, Caraway Jack, White Cheddar...I'm a cheese FREAK!!
Cracked black pepper Brie. KT ( herbed brie )
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Baked Brie:
Buy some frozen puff pastry dough. Take a wedge of cheese and set it on top of piece of the pastry dough. Fold the edges back on itself so the entire wedge it wrapped up. Egg wash: one egg and a little water. mix. use a disposable paint brush or a pastry brush and brush the dough. You can cut decorative pieces of dough and stick them on top of the wedge. ( leaves, scrollwork, Porsche crest ). touch with egg wash. Bake at 350° until golden brown. maybe 20 minutes. Serve with a side dish of Jalepeno jelly and sliced baguettes. KT
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mmm, sounds yummy. Too bad the grocery store just closed.
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next you need the wine, of course...
KT
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Have you tried the goat cheese?
take baguette slice, spread with goat, place a warm roasted garlic clove on top. Maybe a bit of chopped chives. KT
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Look up "Heluva Good" on the internet. They have some interesting cheeses.
Personally, I have seldom met a cheese I did not like....
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We are going there every time we are back in town and sampling one of each, with the olives (over 40 varieties of those) and some excellent red wine.
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I like Caraway Jack.
The goat cheese with roasted garlic sounds good too.
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Dubliner is my wife's favorite. Mine is good old gouda.
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I've got some gouda in the fridge right now that I ate some last night. Tasty.
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Damn you all.
 I try not to eat this late, but now I have to.
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And ButterKase makes amazing grilled cheese sandwiches.
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