BS: Popular views on cheese

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Charley Noble
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 05:18 PM

I saw the mouse chase the cat,
Fie, man, fie!
I saw the mouse chase the cat,
Who's the fool now?
I saw the mouse chase the cat,
Saw the cheese eat the rat!
Thou has well drunken
And who's the fool now!

Cheerily,
Charley Cheddar Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: GUEST,Jack Russell
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 03:22 PM

I bought some "Tesco Finest" Belvoir Cheese from, believe it or not, Tesco's, a few months ago: a sort of soft stilton and yummy! Tesco dont't sell it anymore and don't know anything about it. Any one have any clue who made it and where it can now be bought?

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 08:08 AM

Paneer on a skewer with peppers on a sizzling hot plate smothered in an appropriately spicy sauce.

mmmmm

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Stu
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 07:52 AM

For the Francophiles here or those who enjoy a cheese with some depth, I can highly recommend Tesco's Finest Brie De Meaux. Don't put it in the fridge (otherwise you'll not taste it) and catch it before it escapes of the board. It's outstanding.

Hartington Blue, a strong nutty cheddar or a traditional red Leicester.

That's it - I'm off for my lunch.

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Emma B
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 06:23 AM

Traditional english cider is usually still and the tannin quantity can vary with the variety of apple used

Traditional French cidre is usually lower in strength and sparkling; it is the perfect accompaniment (served in a bolée) to a galette or crepe salee.

The most perfect one I had was not far from the Normandy landing beaches and was melted local cheese with caramalized onion mmmmm

Did you manage to attend a traditional Fez Noz too Joe?

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 06:05 AM

Well, the cider I had in Normandy was sweet and smooth. Most hard cider I've had, has a harshness to it. Of course, I can't think of anything more wonderful than sitting outside on a warm, perfect day, drinking cider and eating butter cookies, looking out at wildflowers with Mont St. Michel in the background.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: GUEST,Joe
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 05:56 AM

I will do, I totally agree with your new policy, but wanted to point out a thread started by a guest, where cheese as opposed to political/religious/xenophobic outrage was the main subject!

Is there a big difference between French and English cider?

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 05:39 AM

Yeah, but it was started before the policy went into effect. Whey don't you register and get your very own Mudcat cookie, Joe?

I gotta say, I got a bit tired of jambon and fromage and baguettes when I was in France this month. Somehow, I didn't have time or money for the good places to eat. By the end of the week, I didn't ever want to see another croque monsieur.

Oh, I did come across some very good cookies in Normandy, and some amazing cider to go with them.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: GUEST,Joe
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 05:23 AM

This is a BS thread started by a guest ... After the latest decision by Joe and Mick (which I agree with), I thought what famous cheese related political events have occurred throughout history?

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Emma B
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 08:07 AM

A nice nutty Red Leicester served with pickled damsons and a glass of ale!

Please Joe stop this thread; I'm putting on weight just thinking about it!

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: mandotim
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 05:21 AM

Hartington Stilton is very good, as is another cheese made there; Dovedale Blue, a rich, softish blue cheese. Favourite English; Leigh Toaster mature Lancashire. Don't get me started on French cheeses; I have a pal who works in a creamery in Ancenis on the Loire as a (wait for it) 'Cheese Designer'. Her PhD thesis was actually tasting notes on all the historically important local cheeses of France. She tends to take her work home, and we visit as often as we can...
Tim

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 04:39 AM

Talking of cheese and fruitcake, here's another fine Lancastrian cheese which is a fruitcake, namely Bowland Cheese - although this one appears to be made in Shropshire! Awesome stuff, and it grills like you wouldn't believe; every bit as delicious as it looks, and readily available from your local ASDA...

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 04:28 AM

Thank you, Ruth - I was beginning to despair. Tesco don't have it, nor does our local ASDA, Lidl or Netto. I'll give Sainsbury's in Market Harborough a go this weekend.

Which reminds me :

What's black and yellow and full of shite ?

A Netto plazzie bag.

I'll get me Barbour . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 03:24 AM

Siberian beaver cheese ?

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on cheese
From: GUEST,DV
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 01:48 PM

Mozzarella di bufala (buffalo milk) is great with olives and antipasto veg, bread and wine. Can't get it as fresh here in the States as you do in Italy, but that doesn't stop us.

We've been enjoying it and Scamorza (cows milk) cheese since an Italian friend brought us some as a gift years back when they came to visit.

I also love a good slab of Tilsit on rye with a good dark beer.

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 ...

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: 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 - 12:36 PM

Manchego and membrillo with a glass of Rioja - mmmmmmmmm

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: 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: 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: 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: Bryn Pugh
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 11:20 AM

Sage Derby, anyone ?

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: 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: 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: 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,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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Emma B
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 01:55 PM

Crackin' good cheese Mrrzy

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 - 01:30 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 12:19 PM

Ode on the Mammoth Cheese

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: 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: CarolC
Date: 22 Jul 08 - 11:17 AM

Halloumi is very nice, too.