Kitchen Sink Mac n Cheese with Fair Oaks Farm, Tillamook and Roth Kase Cheeses
Yesterday, The Man asked for Mac n Cheese for lunch. The Lady went to the cheese drawer in the fridge…aka my favorite drawer… to see what cheeses she had to make the dish. She decided to go off the reservation and use several small pieces to make the meal. Here’s what she used: From...
Oltermanni Baby Muenster from Finlandia
Naturally Lactose Free Last year when the cheese kiosk opened, the island carried Oltermanni Baby Muenster. It didn’t sell well and The Lady discontinued it. At the time, The Lady was not sampling cheeses featured on the island; instead concentrating on building the popularity of the cheeses on the kiosk. She noticed that a domestic Muenster was...
Hollandse Best Cream Gouda
This cheese was another wedge The Lady picked up at Whole Foods recently. I did my “due-diligence” researching this cheese and found very little about it on the web. “Hollandse Best Cream” was the name on the WF price tag and my taste buds confirmed that it is a gouda; but finding more information has...
Campo de Montalban
Before I review this Spanish mixed-milk cheese, I have to step out and make a few comments about The Lady… now I don’t mean to be rude (OK, maybe just a tad rude)…but after living with me for five human years (about 35 in feline years) you’d think she’d realize that when I want...
Guest Review of Classic Jack Rumiano
The Lady’s Friend, Kay, has graciously consented to reviewing a cheese she recently discovered and liked. This is the first guest cheese review on the blog and I, too, thank Kay for taking the time. (The Lady and Ky met during the grand re-opening at The lady’s store when Kay won a copy of...
Cypress Grove’s Midnight Moon
Vegetarian Suitable [twitter-follow screen_name='cheesemonger' show_count='yes'] Well, fellow cheese hounds, a day we never thought would come… and no one was more surprised than The Man and moi, your humble feline foodie… a goat milk cheese has arrived at the manse that The Lady LOVES… and I mean LOVES. As you know, she and I for...
Cheese 101: Flavored Cheese and Flavoring Cheese
The Man’s BFF, Gary, recently sent an email to The Lady asking how flavors are added to cheese. He had a very hot experience with a “Firehouse” Cheddar that was too much for him and it got him to thinking…inquiring minds always want to know. The Lady did some research and consulted two of her...
Tumalo Farms Award-Winning Classico
In March of this past year (2009), the U.S Cheese Championship Contest was stunned as a cheese maker “newbie” captured one of the most prestigious prizes in his profession with his Classico Gouda-Style Goat Cheese which finished second place in the “Hard Cheese” category. It was the first time an Oregon cheese had finished in...
34° Lemon Zest Crispbread
While shopping (read: spying) the cheese case at the new Hollywood Whole Foods, The Lady spotted a 34° Crispbread Cracker she hadn’t seen before: Lemon Zest. When she got home, she sent an email to her friend, Robert who is the Western Regional Sales Manager for 34° and learned these crackers are “exclusive” to WF....
