the Cheese thread

Meat Grinder · Apr 5, 2019

I love cheese. No, I LOVE cheese, and I think cheese deserves it's own FGM thread. My wife always keeps a couple of blocks of sharp cheddar in the fridge for us to snack on with some crackers. I recently bought a pound of "Ghost Pepper cheese" from a local Amish grocer. That stuff was HOT, but I enjoyed it.

As some of you know, I've been playing a lot of the Battle Brothers computer game recently. In this game, as in real life, you have to keep your men supplied with provisions, meaning food. If you just buy the same food all the time, they become disgruntled, so it's good to buy a variety of different foods. One of the available foods in the game is goat cheese.

It occurred to me that I have never personally tried goat cheese, so I instructed my wife to look for it the next time she visited the grocery store. The following week, she brought home this:

I loved it! Smooth and creamy, with a nice flavor, this is my new favorite cheese.

Badger73 · Apr 5, 2019

Danish Havarti & Dutch Gouda are fine creamy cheeses produced with very pleasant variations; smoked, dill, etc. Go well with good lager beers . . . :cheerso:

Wellsonian · Apr 5, 2019

I do not like goat cheese....at all. Maybe because the only time I had it was in Kuwait. I dunno. However, I recently had some aged Irish Cheddar. THAT is now my favorite cheese.

Meat Grinder · Apr 5, 2019

@Badger73 visits the cheese shop:

Meat Grinder · Apr 5, 2019

Wellsonian said:
I do not like goat cheese....at all. Maybe because the only time I had it was in Kuwait. I dunno. However, I recently had some aged Irish Cheddar. THAT is now my favorite cheese.

I suspect what you had in Kuwait may have had a different flavor and texture than what I experienced from my local Ingles in east Tennessee. I will put aged Irish Cheddar on my bucket list.

Hedgehog · Apr 5, 2019

Yes some thing about a Strong Mature Cheddar …….. I have a lot of trouble resisting this one

mTk · Apr 5, 2019

I'm a big sharp cheddar fan. Just ordered some of the Irish Cheddar from Amazon. Going to take a week to get here!

Concord · Apr 6, 2019

The ONLY cheese I did not like was BLUE.

Moldy cheese that tastes like ancient sports socks? No thanks. Some people love it though. Freaks.

Wellsonian · Apr 6, 2019

Concord said:
The ONLY cheese I did not like was BLUE.
Moldy cheese that tastes like ancient sports socks? No thanks. Some people love it though. Freaks.

Ah, but blue cheese dressing, on chicken wings. That’s the ticket!

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Louis · Apr 6, 2019

"Reggianito" cheese we say here. Grated (accompanying a plate of noodles) or in a piece (accompanied by a beer or Cinzano), the passion of my wife.

Badger73 · Apr 6, 2019

In homage to @Hub6actual for a great post!

Bert Blitzkrieg · Apr 9, 2019

Best cheese from the Netherlands: http://www.gouda-original1.securear...ct-1460878/Gouda-Cheese-Old-Gouda-Cheese.html
More to go with (strong) beer or wine then on your bread.

Do love all the blue cheeses. Gorgonzola may be my favourite.

Zinzan · Apr 9, 2019

Love my cheeses, just not a gourmet - too much fun-living in my past (!!???).
OTOH: I really appreciate British cheeses after living in forrin lands in the past.

Crumbly cheeses such as Wensleydale, Lancashire & Cheshire are delightful.
Cornish Yarg is a great hard cheese too.
Double Gloucster & Red Leicster are great for cooking with as well as biscuits.

And these are just the easily available cheeses, (most local stores small supermarkets etc stock them.)