BS: Popular views on cheese

Subject: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: GUEST,Joe
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 08:02 AM

I love a good bit of stilton, and recently tried a lovely blue brie.

Any relatively undiscovered cheeses out there?

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 08:34 AM

My favourite of all time has to be 'Boursin with garlic and herb' It is one of those items of food that really titilates my palate. Good old Cheddar cheese must come a good second to it.

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: DMcG
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 08:46 AM

I must have had about 50 different cheeses from here. I particularly like Brique de Jussac from the soft cheeses section.

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 09:30 AM

There's several nice herbed chevres made up in Montana.

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Mr Happy
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 09:38 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Paul Burke
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 09:45 AM

Du Roquefort, s'il vous plait. Avec du vin ardechais <>.

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 10:09 AM

King Island soft white cheeses! especially King Island Dairy Discovery Ash Brie

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Mr Happy
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 10:18 AM

...............& DIY http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jBPYopcoeqs !!

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 10:25 AM

LOVE the cheese course. Particularly fond of St. Andre and St. Nectaire...

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 10:27 AM

Cotherstone, which gets intermittently withdrawn on account of health scares, but it's worth the risk I'd say...

Also worth trying is Norwegian Gjetost.

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 10:32 AM

Cheese Rolling in Chester: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=993m0yRR0bg

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 10:37 AM

beware wrapping cheese in tin foil and bringing it on a plane.
TSA reads the density of cheese as a plastic explosive on their screens.

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 10:43 AM

Calderdale Crumbly, best cheese I ever tasted.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: CarolC
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 11:06 AM

Manchego, gouda made with goat milk, peccorino romano (best used in cooking), Basque shepherd's cheese.

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 11:14 AM

I went to my archive and found 2 cheese cartoon illustrations and one song about cheese.

PS our dog is a cheese hound. She is nuts for cheese.

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: CarolC
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 11:17 AM

Halloumi is very nice, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 11:55 AM

Stinking Bishop is one of my particular favourites...I like a ripe, sludgy cheese that looks a bit like an industrial accident.

Taleggio is very nice, too.

Yarg is good when you want a really mild, clean taste.

Sicilian provola has a texture kind of like halloumi - it'sso firm you don't even need bread under it when grilling. Sicilians put mushrooms sauteedwith garlic on top and bang it under the grill...gorgeous.

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Paul Burke
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 11:59 AM

Gjetost is like sweet cheesy goat flavoured fudge. Limburger is nearly as good, if you stand upwind of it.

Remember Vacherin Mont d'Or, kill your granny with added Listerine?

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 12:19 PM

Ode on the Mammoth Cheese

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 12:20 PM

Velveeta.

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 12:27 PM

The ultimate mammoth cheese:

22,000 pound mammoth cheese of Perth, Ontario, Canada

Only in Canada, eh? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Riginslinger
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 01:00 PM

Then there's Speedy Cheese. He operates a radio program under the name of Rush Limberger, and...

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 01:00 PM

I also like Stilton alot. Also good is Shropshire Farmhouse Blue.
My favorite is the one I was weaned on. Sharp Swiss cheese aged 2 or more years. Very hard to find around here due to the huge popularity of Baby Swiss Cheese. Few cheesemakers want to take the time to age it anymore. But if you've tried Swiss cheese and found it to be bland, believe me, a Premium Sharp Swiss is a whole different taste.

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 01:25 PM

The very best stilton in the world comes from just down the road: Colston Bassett, in the Vale of Belvoir.

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Emma B
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 01:30 PM

COLSTON BASSETT BLUE STILTON.
                A rich, creamy tasting and textured, mature Stilton. Made by Mr Wagstaff for over 25 years. 48% V P

available at my local shop too

also    CHESHIRE BLUE.                  
    A clothbound, creamy and full flavoured cows' milk blue cheese made at Mollington with a pronounced blue taste and strong flavour. 48%

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 01:45 PM

Not even Wensleydale?"

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Emma B
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 01:55 PM

Crackin' good cheese Mrrzy

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 04:43 PM

Danish Havarti w/ Dill. W/O is good too.

Many years ago in a Deli just outside of the old plaza of Santa Fe, I ordered Matzo Brei (Bry) scrambled.
The waitress said it was one of her favorites, but she always pronounced it Matzo Bree. I smiled at her and said it was, when made with French Cheese. Mrs. SC tried to kick me under the table. I wonder if they still prepare Matzo Brie, there.

True story.

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Gurney
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 06:09 PM

I just commented on the price of the stuff on another thread. Is it going up where you are?

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 06:16 PM

A subject is made interesting when it is given to interesting people to talk about.

And that's my favourite type of cheese :-D

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: RangerSteve
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 01:50 AM

Nokkelost - my Norwegian friend introduced me to it, but its hard to get here in the states.

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 03:09 AM

There's cheddar and cheshire and lancashire too,
Leicesters bright orange and stilton is blue,
It waxes so lyrical what can you do,
But sing, oh the hard cheese of old England,
In old England very hard cheese.

from Les Barker

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: GUEST,Joe
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 03:55 AM

I found this gem on the Wikipedia entry on stilton - Genius.

'Stilton, thou shouldst be living at this hour
And so thou art. Nor losest grace thereby;
England has need of thee, and so have I--
She is a Fen. Far as the eye can scour,
League after grassy league from Lincoln tower
To Stilton in the fields, she is a Fen.
Yet this high cheese, by choice of fenland men,
Like a tall green volcano rose in power.
Plain living and long drinking are no more,
And pure religion reading "Household Words",
And sturdy manhood sitting still all day
Shrink, like this cheese that crumbles to its core;
While my digestion, like the House of Lords,
The heaviest burdens on herself doth lay.'

- G.K. Chesterton

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 04:04 AM

"She is a Fen. Far as the eye can scour,
League after grassy league from Lincoln tower
To Stilton in the fields, she is a Fen."

She certainly is.

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Emma B
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 06:32 AM

"Bachelor's fare: Bread, cheese, and kisses"
Johnathan Swift

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 06:51 AM

Let's not forget The Laughing Cow, aka La Vache Qui Rit, which, apart from a dribble of simmed milk in my morning coffee, is the only dairy produce I'm allowed these days, and even then in it's ultra light form, one paltry triangle a day. As a cheese fan however, I might indulge on a quarterly basis; something basic - a nice ripe Orkney cheddar grilled onto a slice of Burgen (or Vogel) bread, with Worcester Sauce.

I love Edam too; goes well with a decent shortbread. Of course this is a dietary no-no too, but the joy remains, likewise of crafting endless little red penguins from the wax.

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: GUEST,Hi Lo
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 10:27 AM

I love Wensleydale and Balderson's Canadian Cheddar.Stilton is Divine as is good Edam and Gouda.. I could live on any cheese that is not bright orange.

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 10:38 AM

Tasty Lancashire ; Double Gloucester ; Yarg (not necessarily in this order) ; a sharp Cheddar, with onion or brown sauce (Daddie's, of course, if you can still get it) ; and, the best non-English cheese, Oudgouda.

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: GUEST,Joe
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 10:52 AM

A good strong cheddar goes well with freshly sliced onion in vinegar (not pickled) and some decent bread. Also in my migration to Yorkshire I have disovered Wensleydale with fruit cake. The combination of kings.

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 10:57 AM

There is a theory put about by a friend of mine that I don't fully adhere to but, apart from a few exceptions, it is nearly right. The further you get from Lancashire the worse the cheese gets:-)

So, in order of best, you have Lancashire (crumbly, creamy, or tasty - doesn't really matter), Cheshire, Wensleydale, Swaledale, Stilton (made in Derbyshire). Blue Shropshire is fine but when you start getting to the Leicesters and Glucesters they start to fade. Cheddar is where the rot sets in and once you cross the channel you have no chance. As for crossing the atlantic - all I have to say is Cheeze Whizz...

I'm ducking out now to enjoy the Jarlsberg (sp) and Emmental I took out of the fridge last night so stop throwing smelly cheese at me please...

:D

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 11:17 AM

And on Christmas day, Cheshire and a mince pie. Unbeatable !

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 11:20 AM

Sage Derby, anyone ?

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Emma B
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 11:44 AM

If we're talking 'combos' ....
rich fruit and Wenslydale - magic!

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Emma B
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 11:45 AM

oops rich fruit cake that is :) - got carried away by the thought there

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 11:51 AM

"brown sauce (Daddie's, of course, if you can still get it)"


Daddies is the ONLY brown sauce - they still seem to have plenty at Sainsburys!

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: GUEST,DV
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 12:27 PM

Well, as some are already straying off the pure cheese topic--

Of late, we've been doing combinations of tasty local cheeses with tasty imported olives, and local artisan breads.

For liquid libation, it depends upon the weather and the above food selections, but usually wine or beer.

Note: the complexities of pomegranate martinis and what one serves with them is beyond my realm of knowledge. So we tend to stick with what we know. That being a test we've failed frequently in life, we often choose the spicy versions, often with disastrous results.

And that's the joy in it!

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Emma B
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 12:36 PM

Manchego and membrillo with a glass of Rioja - mmmmmmmmm

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 01:05 PM

Any cheese that comes when whistled and bites on arrival...

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Emma B
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 01:14 PM

Like this Richard? :)

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 01:21 PM

I didn't have you down for a builder Richard ...