Mmm...cheese

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

Today I didn't have any cheese for breakfast, but I had a baked potato, half with y fenni and half with somerset brie and crayfish tails. Colin had cheddar, somerset brie and salami on his. Also, I had y fenni and crackers for my afternoon tea.

[Poll #1144194]

What cheese did you eat today?

Comments

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Today I had what appears to have been bog-standard Cheddar (in an omelette cooked fresh for me at work), and Halloumi (grated, on pasta just now).

[emperor]

I have had no cheese today, but dinner may well involve Ricotta.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

My favourite cheese is Gruyere. Preferably in combination with something mild and creamy. Yum!

[pling.livejournal.com]

Couldn't really answer the first one - English brie isn't an abomination because of its Englishness (which is what I understand the question to be meaning) but because of its brie-ness ;) Not a big fan of brie, me :)

I haven't actually had any cheese today (shockingly) but normally it would be red leicester on toast for lunch.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

See, to me, English brie doesn't taste like brie. Brie isn't my favourite cheese, but Colin really likes it, so we tend to have it reasonably often.

[ruhe.livejournal.com]

String.

[phoenicis.livejournal.com]

There was some gorgonzola in the ravioli I had for dinner. Other than that it's been a cheeseless day. =(

[jaq.livejournal.com]

OMG, I haven't had any cheese today!

[stegzy.livejournal.com]

Y Fenni is my favourite cheese :-D

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

I have never tried it.

I suspect if I attempted to order it in a supermarket in Cambridge I would not be understood, however. :/

[briggsy.livejournal.com]

I had stilton stuffed mushrooms as a starter yesterday.

[choptliver.livejournal.com]

I had some cream cheese and salsa on tortillas with scrambled eggs for breakfast.

[pne.livejournal.com]

All the votes for "Cheddar" are odd, because over here (Germany), bog-standard cheese is a toss-up between Edam and Gouda. Or at least that's my impression.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I think it's a result of most of my friends being English.

[simont]

Pineapple Grove is one I haven't encountered before, so it would therefore be the first one I put on a gluten-free cracker, to find out what it was like. I'm sure I'd end up having a bit of all the others as well.

To expand on my uninformative what-do-I-buy answer: depending on whim, I might buy old favourites like mature Cheddar or Red Leicester, or something mildly blue like dolcelatte (but probably nothing significantly more blue than that), or goat's or sheep's cheese (Etorki is one of my favourite buys from Sainsburys), or cheese with weird things in (Bavarian smoked cheese with chilli, or garlic-and-herb brie, or roulé), or any of a number of other things. Sage Derby is one I buy with enthusiasm when I can get it, which is unfortunately rarely in major supermarkets. And I'll admit to occasionally falling back on utterly fake processed smoked cheese if I feel a need for comfort food.

[simont]

Also, the key point about brie is not whether you buy English or French. It's whether you interpret the "best before" date as "best before" or "best at least a month after" :-)

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

What cheese did I eat today? Brie.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

I'm not familiar with Pineapple grove. I imagine it is nice. Y Fenni is Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I always forget how delicious it is. I'm glad I bought some :)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I didn't have any cheese today, but if I jump up and down and shake myself around enough my breakfast milk should start to turn...

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Today: Port Salut and mature cheddar.

To expand a bit on my answers: I don't know you well enough to know what you'd like cheese-wise, in which case I'd fall back on getting a little selection of smallish amounts of cheese, such that I'd hope anyone would be okay with at least one bit of it even though perhaps not overenthused by any! This would probably consist of something like a medium cheddar, roule, and maybe edam or red leicester.

While I answered for what I *fancied* on my crackers as what I would like in general, as I am currently pregnant I wouldn't actually eat the brie right now. I'm not familiar with Pineapple Grove, but voted against it in case it has pineapple in. I am not a fan of Things in cheese, well not big things like fruit or nuts or chillis or peppers etc. Small flavouringy things can be v. nice though - I do like Y Fenni and sage derby.

[devalmont.livejournal.com]

I love the fact that there appear to be dozens of us who said exactly the same thing - "I would assume that Cheese would be a standard cheddar, but I would REBEL against the system and buy SUPER DOOPER cheddar!"

We're all dairy mavericks.

[devalmont.livejournal.com]

Oh, and because I am a crazed rebel of the cheese world, the cheese that I ate today was Wensleydale with Cranberries.

[fluffyarmadillo.livejournal.com]

No cheese today but can recommend. Chicken breast stuffed with brie and cranberry jelly cocktail stick up and wrap in foil and baked in in an oven and served in a port, cranberry and honey sauce and served with broccoli and new potatoes or gnochhi

[alison-lees.livejournal.com]

Yesterday we had pizza with whatever cheese comes on bought pizza (cheddar?) and I added some French goats' cheese. I have never seen this particular cheese before; John and Hannah bought it. The children liked it, it wasn't that bad, but very white (white cheese can be a bit off putting as it can look like lard), and I said 'that goat's cheese is nearly all gone' and John said 'that's okay, I don't like it' and I said 'it was on that pizza you ate!'

The other cheeses in our cheese box at the moment are stilton and something called 'stripy jack' which is five layers of English cheese (cheddar, double gloucester, lancashire, red leicester, cheshire, I think) and looks very pretty. The children like it because it's stripy.

When I was a kid, mother bought the mildest cheddar she could find and the blandest edam, and I thought I didn't like cheese. Then I tasted real cheese with flavour, and discovered I had been a victim of my mother's inability to cope with flavour.

Oh, and although 'English Brie' is something I'll happily eat and enjoy (and I answered it accordingly) it is also an abomination, in the same way that all those so-called Cheddars that don't come from the Cheddar area are abominations, and did you know England has more cheeses than France? I'm sure I remember right.

[gerald_duck]

Where I'm sitting it's 11:22am, so a little early to have eaten any cheese yet.

The last cheese I ate was Keen's Cheddar; the one before was Lincolnshire Poacher Special Reserve. I only really like hard, unsmoked, non-blue, cows'-milk cheeses, though that still gives me plenty of variety. (-8

So when I said English Brie was an abomination, it's probably worth noting that I also consider French Brie one.

Frankly, someone who wrote "cheese" on a shopping list would probably get phoned up for clarification of the amount of cheese as well as the type! If I absolutely had to default, 200g-500g of Canadian Vintage Cheddar (from the various supermarkets' finest/taste-the-difference ranges) is good value, tasty and a reasonably safe bet.

So what do you do if someone puts "meat" on the shopping list? :-p

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

So what do you do if someone puts "meat" on the shopping list? :-p

You write them a shopping list at some later point containing "food".

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

What cheese did you eat today?

nothing, since it's 8am. Yesterday I ate something called Monterey Jack with salsa in it.

[badriya.livejournal.com]

I love cheese, hard or soft kinds, but it is very high in Weightwatcher points, so I tend to have low fat cream cheese if any. Not today, but there is a low fat cheese here that comes in slices, it's white and a bit holey and mild and tastes milky and very good. Trouble is bluerose doesn't eat it, he likes strong cheddar, and it means I have to have the whole pack. It's hard not to pick a slice as I go past the fridge so I probably won't get it again.

[alison-lees.livejournal.com]

The sliced cheese you describe sounds like the stuff they sell in Ikea, but I don't know if it's low fat. It's very tasty though. The thing about cheese and fat to know is that if you get stronger cheese you can be satisfied with a smaller portion (and it takes less to make cheese sauce). Sounds obvious, now I've written it down.