Favourite Cheese

[AlexLaw76]

That time of year, and many will get to enjoy various types of cheese.

i love a bit of French Roule and Boursin.

not having Stilton though, that is for the weirdos 

[The Kraken]

Stilton is incredible. I’m already looking forward to the Boxing Day cheese board, got 6 or 7 of the buggers that will come out for the afternoon buffet and stay out until eaten.

[AlexLaw76]

2 minutes ago, The Kraken said:

 I’m already looking forward to the Boxing Day cheese board

Agree, one of t best parts of Xmas 

Brie is also another that I like.

[egg]

Cheese is the elixir of life. If I must pick a favourite it's barkham blue, but throw a decent (but not crunchy) mature cheddar my way and I'm a happy man. 

Best accompaniment is quince jelly. The second best jelly after ky. 

[Turkish]

baked camembert with a good quality white bread is a wonderful late christmas day snack.

Wensleydale Creamery is about an hours drive from us and we often take a trip up there in the summer where they do some amazing cheeses

Who remembers the cheese shop in Bitterne? Closed years ago i think but much like butchers and bakers you dont see much of them anyway. More victims of mass, uncontrolled immigration. 

[egg]

12 minutes ago, Turkish said:

baked camembert with a good quality white bread is a wonderful late christmas day snack.

Wensleydale Creamery is about an hours drive from us and we often take a trip up there in the summer where they do some amazing cheeses

Who remembers the cheese shop in Bitterne? Closed years ago i think but much like butchers and bakers you dont see much of them anyway. More victims of mass, uncontrolled immigration. 

Baked camembert is amazing. I roast garlic with it and toast the bread lightly. Amazing combo. 

We went to Wensleydale when we did a Yorkshire road trip earlier this year. The cheese tasting was good, and we came away with some cracking cheeses. 

[Turkish]

4 minutes ago, egg said:

Baked camembert is amazing. I roast garlic with it and toast the bread lightly. Amazing combo. 

We went to Wensleydale when we did a Yorkshire road trip earlier this year. The cheese tasting was good, and we came away with some cracking cheeses. 

yes that's exactly what we did with Camembert, also sometimes have doughball style bread.

Wensleydale do a cheese with cranberries in it, i forget the name of it but it's delicious. The oak smoked cheddar is great as well. 

[revolution saint]

Mild cheddar.  I'm not 'avin any of that foreign muck or cheeses with pretentious delusions of sophistication eaten by sandal wearing, latte drinking lefties.

[Farmer Saint]

Ossau Iraty is pretty damned good.

Also, just went a collected some cheese from a farmer friend - this place makes some epic cheese:

https://www.thetraditionalcheesedairy.co.uk/

 

[egg]

37 minutes ago, Turkish said:

yes that's exactly what we did with Camembert, also sometimes have doughball style bread.

Wensleydale do a cheese with cranberries in it, i forget the name of it but it's delicious. The oak smoked cheddar is great as well. 

We bought some of their smoked, it was very good. We also discovered the Wensleydale/fruit cake combination. Bloody amazing. 

[Sheaf Saint]

My absolute favourite is French Morbier. Has to be kept well sealed in the fridge though.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Are these the names of some of that stuff next to the Red Leicester?

 - Phil I Stine

[Farmer Saint]

4 hours ago, Sheaf Saint said:

My absolute favourite is French Morbier. Has to be kept well sealed in the fridge though.

That's what Dahmer said.

[sadoldgit]

Blue Brie. Best of both worlds.

Grated Parmesan on pretty much everything.

[egg]

1 hour ago, sadoldgit said:

Blue Brie. Best of both worlds.

Grated Parmesan on pretty much everything.

Blue brie I have never tried, but sounds immense. Will see what I can find tomorrow. 

[sadoldgit]

9 minutes ago, egg said:

Blue brie I have never tried, but sounds immense. Will see what I can find tomorrow. 

If you like blue cheese and you like Brie you will not be disappointed!

[Sheaf Saint]

10 minutes ago, egg said:

Blue brie I have never tried, but sounds immense. Will see what I can find tomorrow. 

You can buy Cambozola in any supermarket. It's lovely stuff - best of both worlds.

[whelk]

There are some sick bastards on this forum 

[egg]

9 minutes ago, whelk said:

There are some sick bastards on this forum 

Are you more of a laughing cow man Whelk? 

[whelk]

Just now, egg said:

Are you more of a laughing cow man Whelk? 

What are those pain in the arse triangle ones that are a bugger to get the foil off?

[egg]

Just now, whelk said:

What are those pain in the arse triangle ones that are a bugger to get the foil off?

That's them. Shitty little ultra processed things. 

[whelk]

1 minute ago, egg said:

That's them. Shitty little ultra processed things. 

I am not such a heathen to enjoy ultra processed cheese but don’t stray too far from mature cheddar

[egg]

1 minute ago, whelk said:

I am not such a heathen to enjoy ultra processed cheese but don’t stray too far from mature cheddar

A decent cheddar is hard to beat. 

[badgerx16]

Garstang Blue and crumbly Lancashire.

[Gloucester Saint]

8 hours ago, Turkish said:

baked camembert with a good quality white bread is a wonderful late christmas day snack.

Wensleydale Creamery is about an hours drive from us and we often take a trip up there in the summer where they do some amazing cheeses

Who remembers the cheese shop in Bitterne? Closed years ago i think but much like butchers and bakers you dont see much of them anyway. More victims of mass, uncontrolled immigration. 

Was a bit of hoo-hah a few years back when we holidayed in the Dales and Jason Gillespie was Yorks CCC Head Coach.

Gillespie is an outspoken vegan and had a rant about the dairy industry and how it should cease.

Yorks CCC’s main and shirt sponsor? Wensleydale Creamery. 

Lovely area, the Fleet Moss road from Hawes via Gayle going past the Creamery is stunning, climbing over 2000ft and gives your transmission a workout. Top marks to those who cycle it. 

[The Kraken]

31 minutes ago, egg said:

A decent cheddar is hard to beat. 

Indeed. A lot of the supermarket cheddar can be average but get a decent one and it’s a knockout of a cheese. For this year I’ve got some mature cheddar plus a cheddar with truffle, had it last year and it was lovely. Got 4 or 5 others too to make up the board.

Whats everyone’s chutney game? We seem to have accumulated about 6 of them ffs 🤦‍♂️ Very much looking forward to the Bloody Mary chutney with some cheddar and crackers.

[egg]

23 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Was a bit of hoo-hah a few years back when we holidayed in the Dales and Jason Gillespie was Yorks CCC Head Coach.

Gillespie is an outspoken vegan and had a rant about the dairy industry and how it should cease.

Yorks CCC’s main and shirt sponsor? Wensleydale Creamery. 

Lovely area, the Fleet Moss road from Hawes via Gayle going past the Creamery is stunning, climbing over 2000ft and gives your transmission a workout. Top marks to those who cycle it. 

We did that in a chronically underpowered mobile home. Beautiful part of the world, but too many 20% + gradients for my liking. The long windy single track road up to Malham Cove was pretty special too. 

Anyways, back to cheese. This thread has given me a decent shopping list for tomorrow. Thanks all. 

 

[trousers]

I'm going through a bit of a 'manchego with quince jelly' phase at the moment. Favourite cheese though is probably Devon Blue (served with caramelised onions), sourced direct from a local Devonian cheese maker, of course. 

[egg]

17 minutes ago, The Kraken said:

Indeed. A lot of the supermarket cheddar can be average but get a decent one and it’s a knockout of a cheese. For this year I’ve got some mature cheddar plus a cheddar with truffle, had it last year and it was lovely. Got 4 or 5 others too to make up the board.

Whats everyone’s chutney game? We seem to have accumulated about 6 of them ffs 🤦‍♂️ Very much looking forward to the Bloody Mary chutney with some cheddar and crackers.

We buy a variety of cheddars, lovely stuff. 

Chutney wise, I like a decent caramelised onion, some good quality quince jelly, and we always get a lovely homemade picallilli from a friend. 

Good crackers are the struggle for me. 

[The Kraken]

1 minute ago, trousers said:

I'm going through a bit of a 'manchego with quince jelly' phase at the moment. Favourite cheese though is probably Devon Blue (served with caramelised onions), sourced direct from a local Devonian cheese maker, of course. 

I was out in Spain last month and as a free option in a restaurant they brought over some slices of manchego with honey to dip it in. You don’t need very much honey at all but it’s a decent combo. Manchego plus something sweet is a great combo.

[Badger]

Stilton, called the King of Cheeses for a reason. No cheeseboard is complete without it.

Local cheeses worth going for are Double Gloucester, and Yarg. 

From the continent a ripe Camembert, smoked  German cheese, and Danish Blue. 

[Gloucester Saint]

12 hours ago, egg said:

We did that in a chronically underpowered mobile home. Beautiful part of the world, but too many 20% + gradients for my liking. The long windy single track road up to Malham Cove was pretty special too. 

Anyways, back to cheese. This thread has given me a decent shopping list for tomorrow. Thanks all. 

 

Was in Malham during October for a short break. The Dales road you really don’t want to do in any motor home is Park Rash going into Kettlewell from Coverdale. 25%+ and a couple of very sharp hairpins where your bonnet disappears…

 

[egg]

12 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Was in Malham during October for a short break. The Dales road you really don’t want to do in any motor home is Park Rash going into Kettlewell from Coverdale. 25%+ and a couple of very sharp hairpins where your bonnet disappears…

 

It was beautiful, and lovely pics. I don't think we did that road. We did one which took us through about 7 or 8 closed farm gates, then along a raised road barely any wider than the van. Can't recall where we were heading but there was some kind of monument up a hill. When we got there, it turns out if we'd gone a slightly longer way, we'd have have a main ISH road all the way save the last 50m or so! 

[Turkish]

Malham cove is great. Did you do or see any of the Yorkshire 3 Peaks? A great walk, we’ve done two of them now great way to spend a day. This is Whernside earlier this year 

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Turkish

[egg]

2 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Malham cove is great. Did you do or see any of the Yorkshire 3 Peaks? A great walk, we’ve done two of them now great way to spend a day. This is Whernside earlier this year 

 

 

Sadly not, I was recovering from surgery so I was restricted to gentle walking only. We'll go back though - loved the area and the people. Those are amazing pictures. 

[badgerx16]

I have cycled up to Malham Tarn and Cove ; steady and slow up, much more fun going down.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

Cheese is the absolute work of the devil

[egg]

6 minutes ago, Lee On Solent Saint said:

Cheese is the absolute work of the devil

That's the most disgraceful thing ever posted on this forum. Off with your head. 

[Weston Super Saint]

18 minutes ago, Lee On Solent Saint said:

Cheese is the absolute work of the devil

How you can say that when Brussel sprouts exist is astonishing.

[trousers]

Sprouts sauted with lardons and chilli...  Heaven on a plate....

 

[Turkish]

1 minute ago, trousers said:

Sprouts sauted with lardons and chilli...  Heaven on a plate....

 

[badgerx16]

11 minutes ago, trousers said:

Sprouts sauted with lardons and chilli...  Heaven on a plate....

 

Brassicas and chilli : sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, shredded cabbage. All go well, especially with sweet chilli sauce.

 

Back on track, Danish Blue, a nce mature Cheddar, and smoked German cheese.

Edited 1 hour ago by badgerx16

[Lee On Solent Saint]

1 hour ago, Weston Super Saint said:

How you can say that when Brussel sprouts exist is astonishing.

It's a close run thing.