Favourite Cheeses

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A bit of a Wallace and Gromit thread . What is your favourite cheese ? For me it is not Wensleydale

Has to be

Roquefort
St Nectaire Fermier
Reblochon
 
Where do I start? I love cheese, especially with a glass of wine. At the moment I have a bit of a taste for Jarlsberg, other favourites include Applewood smoked cheddar, wensleydale with cranberries, Tesco stilton with mango. Marks and Spencer used to do a rather nice Stilton with Bacon. Unusual but nice, although like so many other nice M & S foods(hickory smoked cashew nuts especially) it now seems to have been discontinued. By the was, none of you work for M & S food do you? I want those back.
 
And how could I forget? Feta cheese. So much better in Greece when its made from 100% goats milk, unlike what you get over here which is made from cow's milk or a combination of the two. Ah, the taste of lazy summer holidays.
 
Just enjoying some Reblochon from Waitrose with a glass of wine at present . Delicious.
 
I'm with you on feta cheese, Triptych, I love it. I also like camembert, double gloucester with chives & onions, mozzarella, red leicester - all crap and unoriginal I know, but there you go! I'm not too keen on brie unless it has been cooked - I like it then!
 
Brie, very sloppy brie. Quite like the garlic and herb brie from Safeway too. Being pregnant three times was so hard because soft cheeses are forbidden and all I really wanted to eat was a sloppy brie, tomato and mayo baguette :teeth:
 
Jarlsberg for me too, also like Emmental, wensleydale with cranberries, double gloucester, strong farmhouse cheddar. Could eat some now... wish there was some in the fridge instead of just fruit!
 
I'm quite happy to experiment with cheese (titter ye not) but would struggle to name a favourite.

Mild cheddar (the cheap stuff out of Lidl) on toast for a snack.
Wensleydale for its texture and innoffensiveness.
Cheshire for its crumbliness.
Brie & camembert are enjoyable but uninspiring.

I think blue cheeses need powerful red wines, or even port.

I'm not all that keen on smoked cheeses.

Nothing too adventurous really. I enjoy the cheeses a lot but I'm obviously no connoisseur.
 
Port and stilton is of course a legendary combination . Roquefort and Sauternes is a dazzling pairing too.
 
Ah, port - I love port. Strangely enough I can drink it though - I can't drink red wine or I get the most horrendous migraines, but port seems to be fine! That is one thing I miss (occasionally!!) about the UK - a winter evening sitting in front of a roaring fire, snacking on port, cheese & biscuits....it's great! :D
 
5-year old Vrisaki from Hungary, a rare Urk (Mongolian golden yak milk), a fabulous Jyrnijsa with chipped pine needles from Prosts of Gdansk, and a hand-rolled curd of Molenskaya from Upper Slovakia - though I prefer mine without the 4-week incubation in old herring casks.
 
Spawn of Satan: "vegetarian cheese". If it's not made from animal's milk, it ain't cheese! Stop kidding yourselves!

What is this cobblers about pretending not to eat dairy and meat products for 'ethical' reasons, then referring to 'tofu bacon rashers' with pink stripes dyed onto the gunk, actually trying to make the stuff resemble the dead, cooked beast?
 
I don't like "bits" in cheese - i.e fruit, dried or otherwise, nuts, herbs, garlic.
I'm not too keen on most smoked cheese. I have come across the odd exception, but don't know what they were called. Smoked Brie is usually nice.

I like Blue Cheese - Stilton and Roquefort are the most consistent (I've gone off Cashel Blue).
Mature Gubeen is the best of the readily available Irish Cheeses.
Gooey Brie or Camembert finish off a cheese board for me. I might add a mature cheddar, but 3 types is usually enough.

I reckon any wine goes with pretty much any cheese.

I've recently taken a liking to Caprese salads. Relies on having the best of everything in it though - particularly, good tomatoes. Tesco has very good Buffalo Mozzerella.

All M&S Cheese and Tesco (apart from the "finest" Mozzerella) Cheese is substandard.
 
The "Finest" range Mozzerella is Buffalo Mozzerella. The normal Tesco product is cows milk (presumably) and is very similar to the cheap block stuff used on Pizza's, only packaged a little better.
 
Originally posted by krizon@Apr 21 2005, 01:25 AM
Spawn of Satan: "vegetarian cheese". If it's not made from animal's milk, it ain't cheese! Stop kidding yourselves!

What is this cobblers about pretending not to eat dairy and meat products for 'ethical' reasons, then referring to 'tofu bacon rashers' with pink stripes dyed onto the gunk, actually trying to make the stuff resemble the dead, cooked beast?
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My sentiments exactly, Kri! Surely rather than eating something that looks vaguely like bacon and tastes foul (although it's supposed to taste like bacon!) you may as well eat bloody bacon!!! Same goes for all the meat free "sausages", "burgers", "chops", "mincemeat"......I just don't see the point of it - if you want to eat meat so badly, why not eat meat????!!
 
If some vegetarians want to eat such things surely it is their own business whether they do so or not .
 
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