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06-25-2019, 10:08 AM | #1 |
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Favorite cheese?
My vote goes to Valdeon, a Spanish cave-aged blue that is wrapped in grape leaves and rubbed with a red wine. It is a really strong blue cheese, but in that flavor you can pick out hints of chocolate.
You can't eat more of it than a couple of bites at a time, but at close to $30/lb., that's probably a good thing. Runner up is an aged cheddar that Smokin'Actuary sent me awhile back. I have no recall of its name, but it had a crystalline structure that dissolved on your tounge not unlike pop rocks. I smuggled some farmstead cheeses from England that I bought at the Oxford Farmers Market back in 2005. They were really good, but I have no hope of finding any more. Pogophiles and I were tearing it up at a Camp herf.
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06-25-2019, 12:13 PM | #2 |
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Kind of boring, but, Havartti with Caraway on wheat crackers...
Had a blue cheese on a ribeye 2 months ago that was really good, not ventured much into blue's, it wasn't bad price wise, a small piece big enough for 3 ribeye was maybe $7, I think it was called cowboy, the cheese guy at Kroger recommended it.... Very sharp cheddar, especially white is really good too Dan
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06-25-2019, 12:21 PM | #3 |
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antique gouda. So old that it has crystallized.
tillamook two year old sharp white cheddar. High quality sharp cheddar. Very good swiss. Chewy, yeasty, tasty. Brie. I have never had a bad brie. I'm sure that it will happen some day. A few years ago I bought one at sams that was like wood, but took it back and yelled at them until I felt better. |
06-25-2019, 02:46 PM | #4 |
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Moliterno Black; cave-aged anything; a really sharp cheddar; aged goat gouda; so many and, rarely have I ever had a cheese I disliked.
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06-25-2019, 03:40 PM | #5 |
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Jarlsburg, Stilton, and Brie.
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06-25-2019, 08:06 PM | #6 |
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finca pascualete (Extremadura Spain) - fungal, sharp, almost perfect.
fourme d'ambert (France) beaver cheese (Venezuela)
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06-26-2019, 03:50 AM | #7 |
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I thought beaver cheese was called smegma.
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06-26-2019, 05:06 AM | #8 |
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06-26-2019, 08:06 AM | #9 |
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Favorite cheese? The one I'm eating....
I've taken to aged asiago lately... and found an aged irish chedder - cahills irish whisky cheese; though I've yet to open that one up..
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06-26-2019, 09:37 AM | #10 |
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I cannot go to Whole Food without bringing home $50 worth of exotic cheese.
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