A date with English cheese

[friendlyArm]

I am French. And believe me, French peoples are all about cheese.
Tonight, I decided to make a truce : forget Napoleon, the olde alliance, Johan of A and the metric system.

So OK, let's discover Stilton. And I must admit : it is delicious. Close to our "Bleu de Gex", but I must admit : english cheese is something to wonder about ^^

 

[LittleBabyJake]

Stilton is good man i do love me some blue cheese!

 

[foxcub]

mmmm cheese

 

[Kittyinpink]

I am French. And believe me, French peoples are all about cheese.
Tonight, I decided to make a truce : forget Napoleon, the olde alliance, Johan of A and the metric system.

So OK, let's discover Stilton. And I must admit : it is delicious. Close to our "Bleu de Gex", but I must admit : english cheese is something to wonder about ^^

Hehehe! .. I LOVE cheese! I love English cheese , some of it is spectacular! I really recommend you try our better varieties. I love French cheese! Many French cheeses these days are similar to some English. And Italian cheeses are pretty good also! The best cheese board in the world should be those three countries cheeses. Stilton. Brie. Camambet. Parmasan. Roquefort. St agur. Italian ewe. English goat. Mmm... don't forget the grapes !

 

[LittleBabyJake]

Hehehe! .. I LOVE cheese! I love English cheese , some of it is spectacular! I really recommend you try our better varieties. I love French cheese! Many French cheeses these days are similar to some English. And Italian cheeses are pretty good also! The best cheese board in the world should be those three countries cheeses. Stilton. Brie. Camambet. Parmasan. Roquefort. St agur. Italian ewe. English goat. Mmm... don't forget the grapes !

What about the kings of alpine cheeses in Swiss and Austria? Or Germany also has some good cheeses. Not perse famous for their cheeses but they have some good solid flavors.

 

[Kittyinpink]

What about the kings of alpine cheeses in Swiss and Austria? Or Germany also has some good cheeses. Not perse famous for their cheeses but they have some good solid flavors.

OK! OK! .. I have one small tummy and a whole planet of cheeses! .. I admit I have not experienced German or Swiss cheeses in any real way. I know only little about that style , and I haven't discovered those cheeses properly yet. I will try in near future to remedy that! Do you have a suggestion? One particular cheese you love?

 

[NappiedTruckDriver]

Can’t beat a good strong Somerset cheddar cheese , on toast
The cheese is that crumbly you can’t slice it only grate it

 

[Kittyinpink]

Can’t beat a good strong Somerset cheddar cheese , on toast
The cheese is that crumbly you can’t slice it only grate it

Mmm.. not forgetting those little salt crystals that sometimes 'pop' in your mouth... mmm..salivating... I can beat that.. exactly the same , but on a slice of my home made bread , lightly toasted with melted goats butter.......

 

[friendlyArm]

Hehehe! .. I LOVE cheese! I love English cheese , some of it is spectacular! I really recommend you try our better varieties. I love French cheese! Many French cheeses these days are similar to some English. And Italian cheeses are pretty good also! The best cheese board in the world should be those three countries cheeses. Stilton. Brie. Camambet. Parmasan. Roquefort. St agur. Italian ewe. English goat. Mmm... don't forget the grapes !

Parmasan : sometises there is more of it in my plate than pastas

 

[LittleBabyJake]

OK! OK! .. I have one small tummy and a whole planet of cheeses! .. I admit I have not experienced German or Swiss cheeses in any real way. I know only little about that style , and I haven't discovered those cheeses properly yet. I will try in near future to remedy that! Do you have a suggestion? One particular cheese you love?

Gruyère is really good. It's a very floral bright and smooth flavor. Emmentaler is a more bolder flavor. Or! Or! Raclette cheese! Those are big wheels they heat and brown up under a grill and then they slide the melted part over some patatoes or bread Then there is a funky one, I did have to lookup the name, did not remember Tête de Moine. It comes with a specialised tool even to make cheese flowers.

We've been to Switzerland and tried each respective cheese where they come from.

 

[LittleBabyJake]

Can’t beat a good strong Somerset cheddar cheese , on toast
The cheese is that crumbly you can’t slice it only grate it

Never had this cheese. Just looked it up, looks good!

 

[friendlyArm]

Conté, 12 years old, with the small salt cristals.

And for swiss cheese : Appenzeller.

 

[Kittyinpink]

Gruyère is really good. It's a very floral bright and smooth flavor. Emmentaler is a more bolder flavor. Or! Or! Raclette cheese! Those are big wheels they heat and brown up under a grill and then they slide the melted part over some patatoes or bread Then there is a funky one, I did have to lookup the name, did not remember Tête de Moine. It comes with a specialised tool even to make cheese flowers.

We've been to Switzerland and tried each respective cheese where they come from.

I remember Gruyere! Yes I like that one. Sounds like some of those other cheeses come with there own theatre! What an interesting idea ! If I win the lottery I might go on a world cheese tour! Each country each region I will visit and try there speciality cheese !

 

[AnalogRTO]

Couldn't resist...

 

[Kittyinpink]

Couldn't resist...

 

[tiny]

Cheese is the bees knees!

I am French. And believe me, French peoples are all about cheese.
Tonight, I decided to make a truce : forget Napoleon, the olde alliance, Johan of A and the metric system.

I don't like most traditional British styles. But Cheddar and Stilton are absolute classics. There are so many equally delicious "sub-genres" of those styles. But 95% of the time, the "special treat" cheese I buy is from mainland Western Europe.... Gruyere, Comte, Parigiano, Halloumi, Manchego, (and random stuff).

At the risk of cultural blasphemy... Have you ever tried St. Endellion Cornish brie? It's not sharp/tangy like traditional brie, and is sooooo rich and creamy.

Another amazing British cheese I had recently was from "Mrs. Bell's". I wish I could remember what it was. Google only brings up "Mrs. Bell's Blue", and it wasn't that. It was a hard(ish) blue cheese with no rind, and orange in colour. Maybe a "Shropshire" style...? Anyway, it was ASTOUNDINGLY good. The tiniest slice melted on the tongue, and exploded with such flavour that it genuinely gave me a rush of euphoria and brain-tingles with every tiny morsel... Mmmm...

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Your post reminds me of one of the most hilarous moments of The Apprentice (British version). The teams had to choose "The Best of British" food to showcase at a French farmers' market. One team bravely decided to sell cheese... And to "maximise their profit" by buying giant sweaty slabs of generic mass-produced cheddar from a wholesale warehouse to sell at a premium.

I was crying with laughter long before they arrived in France. If the call, "Fromage Anglais!" wasn't enough to scare people away, one look at the free samples made most recoil in incredulous horror! When finally a few brave souls accepted a free sample for the camera, the sequence of facial expressions (and stifled sounds) they produced showed that, as well as being sophisticated in their tastes, the French also excel in the performing arts.

 

[ade]

...the French also excel in the performing arts

You're f-ing short, there, tiny

The 'cheddar' thing is wierd, isn't it? It's everywhere you look, nowadays, and certainly isn't the cheddar of my childhood () which we would've got from the other cornershop, a grocers, at the other end of our row and was cut from a block; obviously, we didn't eat cheddar in them days cos we was normal and proper.
No, we ate Lancashire cheese (and we still do! ).
And if we're being 'proper', cheddar is a salad cheese (explains why nobody in Britain used to eat it) and Lancashire is a cooking cheese. That said, we eat Lancashire as a somewhat salad cheese, too, as with pilchards:

Anyway, that modern, mass produced 'cheddar' seems to go with owt, cooked or not. I put it on pizzas and bologneses.
I still think it's odd to see all those plastic packets of 'cheese' in shops; I suppose that it's like how I see disposable nappies: as something new, strange and foreign, but still buy-and-tryable.

As for that mouldy, smelly stuff.....well, God gave us feet and Yorkshire for that kind of thing

 

[DannyBBaby]

I like my chees medium to aged yum yum