Food, Cheese, Recipes
One of the stinkiest of all cheese is Blue Cheese. With veins of mold that stretch throughout the curds, blue cheese is unmistakable. While the pungent flavors are off-putting to some, many love the rich, funky complexity that comes with it. And one of the ultimate snacks, Buffalo Wings, wouldn’t be as ultimate if it [...]
From the “What’s This Food” series, Daniel Delaney presents “What’s This Cheese” series. This week Daniel looks at the hole-ist cheese of them all, Swiss. After explaining how Swiss cheese is created, he shows you how to make a bacon and swiss melt.
If your cheese eating has been limited to your supermarket’s dairy case, you’re missing out on some delicious varieties. Expand your horizons with these buying tips. How to Choose a Cheese on Howcast
What is a cheese curd? Recently I went on a tour of the Tillamook cheese factory in Tillamook, OR. Part of the tour included an area where you could eat samples of their cheese. Included in the various samples were fresh cheese curds. Before this I had never eaten a cheese curd. What seems to look like [...]
Here is a list of a few cheeses in the Very Hard and Hard categories. Very Hard (used for grating) Texture – Flavor – Use Asiago – sharp, slightly fruity – cooking and seasoning Parmesan – sharp, salty – cooking, pasta, salads and seasoning Romano – sharp, piquant, salty – cooking, pasta and seasoning
Did you know cheeses can absorb other aromas and can change taste over time? Do you hate it when your exposed cheese in your refrigerator starts to dry? The first rule to good cheese storage is to know that all cheese are not created equal. Semi-soft to hard cheese should be wrapped in foil to prevent mold. With soft cheeses like [...]
Hard to spell but easy to love, Grevenbroecker is part of a new wave of artisan cheeses arriving in the United States from Belgium. Made on a family farm in Flanders from the farm’s raw cow’s milk, it is a peculiar blue cheese indeed. But if you think the producer might want to enlighten customers [...]
Salva Cremasco cheese Salva comes from the Italian verb salvare, meaning to save. Crema is the name of a town in the Northern Italian region of Lombardy. (This much is true.) Salva Cremasco – the “saved cheese” from Crema – was initially made with excess milk in late spring or summer, when the herd’s output [...]
When you see a block of cheese and it’s consumed with holes, what type of cheese comes to mind? SWISS CHEESE! Did you know that Swiss Cheese is a generic name for several different types of cheese? The Swiss cheese that is produced in Switzerland is actually called Emmental cheese and it originates from the [...]
Here’s a little trivia for us cheese lovers. There are over 400 different type of cheeses, with over 2,000 different names. Cheeses are grouped by their moisture content. So we have fresh, soft, semisoft, hard and very hard. Cottage cheese, cream cheese or ricotta make up fresh cheeses. Brie and Camembert are examples of soft [...]
