Philadelphia with Jalapenos
As something with jalapeños in the title this is pretty tame! Went nicely in a pasta dish for tea with some smoked salmon.
Day 35
Category: 366 Days of Cheese
Day 34
Double Gloucester with chive and onion
Made by Truckle Bros and found in Morrisons. Comes in a nice wax coat and is very good flavoured cheese with chewy bits of onion, chewy in a good way! I have gone back for seconds!
Day 33
Black pepper Castello
The last of the little Castellos, pleasant little number, not as peppery as the last pepper cheese, but nice and creamy. Went well with a small Highland Park.
Day 28
Dolphinholme Goats cheese
Bought from Melville Tyson’s this cheese is hard textured with quite a mild flavour, went well when toasted on homemade granary, coriander cranberry and feta bread. Along with leek and potato soup finished with the last of the pepper cheddar cheese.
Day 26
Grandma Singletons strong Lancashire
Simple lunch of Cheese and apple salad with Hoisin and spring onion dressing. Excellent flavourful Lancashire cheese, creamy, not too hard and with a lovely tang.
Day 25
Appleby Black Dub Blue
At last a lovely Cumbrian blue cheese and whisky
Day 24
Grandma Singletons Black pepper Cheddar
Time for my first mini cheese road trip. It was a bit grim out so was not planning to go far, after a bit of googling it soon became clear that West Cumbria is not well endowed with cheese makers or cheese shops for that matter!
I decided to head to Broughton in Furness and try Melville Tyson’s which is a great village butcher and grocery, but I wasn’t sure if it had a cheese counter.
I like Broughton, it has some lovely pubs including the great #Manor which always has large range of real ales and is a very traditional pub.
Back to the cheese and I was happy to find a well stocked fridge with a helpful young man willing to cut small slices for me to buy.
So I now have a weeks supply of new cheeses, in fact all completely un tried by me! This is where this whole idea starts to get interesting.
So what do I think of Grandma Singleton’s cracked pepper cheddar. At first it feels like the cheese is totally overwhelmed by the pepper, but then a little bit of creamy cheddar flavour comes through, followed by a lovely warm felling from the heat of the pepper. If you don’t like pepper you are not going to like this!
Day 23
Port Salut
No picture today, I am worried I am driving people to the fridge. Quite enjoyed the very mildly flavoured Port Salut, available from Gosforth stores.
Day 22
Austrian smoked cheese
A real throwback cheese! This was the height of foreign luxury cheese (in our house) in the early 1980’s! Back from the Ship or the Plough by 11.25pm and time for cheese and biscuits and a cup of Nescafé. Now I was quite looking forward to this, but as it happens, it was a little disappointing! Certainly not man enough for the glass of Ardbeg I was going to pair it with. Still having the Ardbeg though
Day 21
Castello creamy white
Lovely Brie like cheese, creamy and white, nicest of the little selection of Castello, just shows simple is often best. I am going to add the cheese to tonight’s tea, dinner, supper, evening meal, depending where you are reading this!
That was lovely, now what’s for pudding?