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gordonzola) wrote2006-11-25 11:24 am
gordonzola) wrote2006-11-25 11:24 am
A question for the Americans
What cheese did you buy for Thanksgiving or No Thanks to Genocide Day celebrations/commemorations?
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wow. almost no one* buys that at thanksgiving. loaf mozz yes, but not fresh. Good job bucking tradition!
*"no one" meaning that sales don't increase much, we still sell our regular amount.
*"no one" meaning that sales don't increase much, we still sell our regular amount.
None, and I was cranky about it. I actually offered, and the hostess declined, citing lactose-intolerant and kosher guests and a glut of food. I also had to suffer through vegan pies. The iniquity of it all.
If I HAD brought a cheese plate, it might perhaps have included:
Bucheron
Aged Gouda
Tomme de Savoie or cave-aged Gruyere
Roaring Forties Blue
Fromage d'Affinois
(all cheeses I like that I consider nonscary, yet interesting)
If I HAD brought a cheese plate, it might perhaps have included:
Bucheron
Aged Gouda
Tomme de Savoie or cave-aged Gruyere
Roaring Forties Blue
Fromage d'Affinois
(all cheeses I like that I consider nonscary, yet interesting)
haha. vegan pies: a scourge on this great nation.
There was no cheese at my Thanksgiving. We're not vegan or anything like that, though.
I haven't found any good cheese in South Dakota yet.
Me neither. but let me know if you do.
I loved the Sioux Falls co-op though.
I loved the Sioux Falls co-op though.
nothing, although today at work i was thinking about picking your brain re: fontina. we use it on our pizzettas and i am rapidly becoming addicted to it.
The cheapest brie I could find at Trader Joe's, and then worried I didn't have enough for the stuffed dates I was making, another piece from Whole Foods. At Whole Foods I specifically asked for "the cheap brie" and she pointed me to something not expensive, but not as cheap as the stuff right above it. I showed her the cheaper stuff and she was like, "oh yeah, but that's cow milk." So? I mean, I didn't say, "the cheapest not cow milk brie you have."
But maybe she knew something I didn't.
I knew the crowd I was making the appetizers for wouldn't care and I'm glad I didn't spend too much, although writing this here, on a cheeseman's journal feels wrong.
But maybe she knew something I didn't.
I knew the crowd I was making the appetizers for wouldn't care and I'm glad I didn't spend too much, although writing this here, on a cheeseman's journal feels wrong.
haha. no guilt here. I try to make my journal guilt-free.
I picked up some packaged sliced Asiago for sandwiches, fairly decent even if it was pre-packaged.
Oh, and if I were to have done a proper cheese plate it would have consisted of:
Havarti
Gruyere
queso manchego
saga
djetost
some sort of pimped-up gouda
Havarti
Gruyere
queso manchego
saga
djetost
some sort of pimped-up gouda
Do I still count as American???
I went to the cheese stall in the market square and had a nice chat with the fellow. He raised his eyebrows at my sit-down meal for thirty people plan but selected a nice assortment for me. Other than brie for the kids I believe we had a nice English cheddar, some stilton, and one other that I failed to write down the name of. Very tasty, not very adventurous!
He also sold me a round thing in a wooden sort of case that I was supposed to bake before serving, but I forgot all about it until today.
Least I didn't forget the stuffing like year before last!
I went to the cheese stall in the market square and had a nice chat with the fellow. He raised his eyebrows at my sit-down meal for thirty people plan but selected a nice assortment for me. Other than brie for the kids I believe we had a nice English cheddar, some stilton, and one other that I failed to write down the name of. Very tasty, not very adventurous!
He also sold me a round thing in a wooden sort of case that I was supposed to bake before serving, but I forgot all about it until today.
Least I didn't forget the stuffing like year before last!
No matter what, you will always be an American, Bee.
K bought several mini-Explorateurs in little ceramic ramekins.
We went overboard on the cheese.
L'edel de Cleron
King Island Dairy Seal Bay triple cream
Cotswold
aged gruyere
Stilton
Mimolette
L'edel de Cleron
King Island Dairy Seal Bay triple cream
Cotswold
aged gruyere
Stilton
Mimolette
great selection. and good for you for buying L'edel de Cleron. It drives me nuts when people turn their noses up at that cheese because they want some other faux-vacherin that is also pasteurized but has Vacherin in the name.
No, we bought no cheese. Thanksgiving is a non-cheese eating holiday. No cheese is bought for Thanksgiving.
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