Entries tagged as cheeseTuesday, March 22. 2011A monk's head is a party
Three weeks ago, I got a rather mysterious surprise in the mail. "You have a mystery box from Culture Magazine," Kris told me. "Can I open it?"
After forcing her to wait until her glare was sharp enough to open the package on its own, I looked. And was amazed. Two pounds of Tete de Moine cheese and a beechwood cheese shaver. Apparently I'd won a contest I didn't even remember entering, on the Culture web site.
Continue reading "A monk's head is a party" Sunday, April 25. 2010Wine, Cheese, and Chocolate Tasting 2010
Ages ago I posted an article on how to do home tastings. I thought I'd show you putting my comestibles where my dentition is, from a recent tasting at our apartment. We threw this little party because we had too much fine wine around, and too much chocolate, and our local grocer (Haight Street Market) had just broadened his cheese stock. We invited over our upstairs neighbors plus five friends who had all worked at the same businesses at different times, but had not yet met each other. Continue reading for tasting notes. Continue reading "Wine, Cheese, and Chocolate Tasting 2010" Friday, March 27. 2009Portuguese Cheese in Santa Rosa
"On our way up to Calistoga, we'll get cheese." "What? Sonoma Jack?" "No, silly. Handmade artisan Portuguese cheese. In Santa Rosa." "In Santa Rosa?" "Yeah. There's this little cheese factory there run by some folks from the Azores. They make one cheese, but apparently it's really good." "In Santa Rosa?" "Yes, in Santa Rosa." "Huh. What's the cheese called?" "Hmmm ... let me see. 'Queijo cheese'." "Dear, 'queijo' means 'cheese' in Portuguese." Continue reading "Portuguese Cheese in Santa Rosa"
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Saturday, February 28. 2009Home Tasting Party Ideas
The classic tastings are wine, cheese and chocolate, because they offer quite range of variety and almost everyone likes them. They even go together; I've done a number of wine-and-chocolate tastings myself. Even for the "big three" though, you have to decide what kind of tasting you're going to do. Continue reading "Home Tasting Party Ideas" Sunday, February 1. 2009Making Your Own Ricotta
Whole-milk ricotta is the second-easiest cheese to make yourself*, and probably the most rewarding. Even with supermarket milk, the ricotta you make in your own kitchen will be at least twice as good as anything you could buy in a plastic tub, because ricotta is really best as a fresh cheese, made and eaten on the same day. My recipe is based on the one from Ricki Carroll's Home Cheese Making. If you want to make your own cheese, buy this book! Continue reading "Making Your Own Ricotta" |
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