The Friday Five Gets Cheesy

[jesse_the_k]

I've always been a big cheese fan, and moving to Wisconsin only improved this.

1. What was the first type of cheese you ever ate?
Bel Paese, a very mild semi-soft cows milk cheese

2. What was the type of cheese you ate most recently?
Parmesan, over MyGuy's reliably wonderful marinara dinner an hour ago

3. What is the most unusual cheese you ever ate?
Last month I had a farmstead sheep cheese that was aged and smoked. Next time I'll go straight for the Limburger, which has a smoother texture.

4. What is your favorite cheese?
I can't choose just one!

For nibbling raw, Mt Stirling raw goat milk sharp cheddar
https://www.wisconsinmade.com/raw-goat-milk-sharp-cheddar-cheese-four-8-oz-packs-6660/

For melting, Sartori Montamore Cheddar
https://www.sartoricheese.com/our-cheese/reserve-cheese/montamore.html

For salads, sheep's milk feta

For spreading, Dreamfarm's fresh-style goat milk cheese (aka chèvre)
http://www.dreamfarm.biz

5. What is your favorite dish made with cheese?
Pre-celiac diagnosis: macaroni and cheese made with cream and bread crumbs broiled on the top.
Post-celiac diagnosis: Montamore melted on to Pain des Fleurs buckwheat crackers--since the crackers are wicked crisp already, I just nuke the cheese for 30 seconds.

Comments

[isis]

I'm impressed that you can remember the first cheese you ever ate. I have no idea!

[worlds_of_smoke]

Same here!

I had help with the memory

[jesse_the_k]

...when my mother brought home Bel Paese cheese, she'd say, "You've loved this since you were tiny."

Re: I had help with the memory

[worlds_of_smoke]

That'd make it easy to remember! :)

[monanotlisa]

Cheese! It's the best. <3

[jesse_the_k]

Absotootly!

And I forgot to mention my latest delightful portable protein find, Sonoma Creamery baked cheese crunchies. They come in bars, squares, and Os--mostly cheese, with a bit of oat or quinoa flour to hold them together. Mmmmmmm.

House of Curds

[hairyears]

You may have missed my other reply to Jack's post on cheeses.

This is not necessarily a bad thing: I have linked to a... A thing.

The link is Wikipedia's entry on the... Thing, which is indeed a cheese, in parts; Wikipedia are very matter-of-fact about The Thing and, being Wikipedians, reticent about the things that are rumoured to be true and never written down.

I am not linking to it here. But you can discover all the interesting things about The Thing by Googling with the question "Is it safe to eat Sardininian jumping maggot cheese?"

In other news, seek out Hutterites and Amish farmers in your state: I have sampled cheeses from their dairies in Ontario, and it is a discovery.

One of those discoveries is that there are people throughout North America who cannot eat dairy foods because of allergies; but, in an unknown fraction of those people, the allergy is to the antibiotic residues in dairy products made outside the European Union. We have a couple of these unfortunates over, every other year or so, for our Boxing Day cheese party, who cannot eat dairy in the USA: but they *can* eat cheese produced by Hutterite organic farmers, who use modern vetinary medicines for animal welfare, but not routinely and continuously as 'growth promoters'.

Re: House of Curds

[jesse_the_k]

I appreciate your restraint re the Thing, which is ... something to contemplate from a long distance. Do you know anyone with direct Thing experience?

And thanks for that fabulous tip re: plain people dairying and the cheese making implications thereto.