Cheese - get this for your cheeseboard - it's so good 😋

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So good

I've found my people
Love st felicien, also blacksticks blue
Discovery this Christmas was an impulse purchase Tesco finest hickory smoked vintage cheddar, it's for people who like it when you feel the tang of a cheese in the joints of your jaw! Delicious.
Also got a lovely Lancashire cheese with smoked chillies from a local market, it was shaped like a cartoon bomb

I won't/don't but sometimes I feel the rind detracts from the actual cheese and prefer to have it not interfere

We're going to bring a cheese night tonight as a social at a friend's- i asked for permission to go off track. Have made mini cheesecakes and cheesecake brownies lol

(And will take some actual cheese)

These cheeses all sound delicious though!

Just wanted to post with new username changed on the 26th!

The link is inflammatory foods ; the top five are gluten, dairy, sugar, alcohol and coffee. All the good stuff basically.
My hands were throbbing too and couldn’t grasp a pen usefully or a needle, so a slow week. I’m also egg intolerant which is the biggest spanner to quick meals!

And brassicas are generally not inflammatory, never heard of cauliflower being a thing.

I won't/don't but sometimes I feel the rind detracts from the actual cheese and prefer to have it not interfere

This thread is my favourite thing all christmas, but I don't think that brie rind detracts from the actual cheese. As rinds go, it is among the most gentle and unobtrusive, just a slight and welcome change of texture.

never heard of cauliflower being a thing

Cauliflower is def a thing. Bought one today. As for its association with gout, this is revelatory for me, the biggest shock since my discovery that onions are poisonous to dogs.

Yes, the cauliflower thing has been debunked and doesn't contribute to an excess of uric acid.

Absolutely. Also eating cheese straight from the fridge is horrid. Cheese should be allowed to warm up a bit to appreciate the flavour. Sadly, restaurants haven't been allowed to do this for decades, so ambient cheese trolleys are no longer a (wonderful) thing.

You need to try a proper aged Gouda from a Dutch cheese shop. It'll be dark orange in colour, with salt crystals, a rich nutty flavour and you'll need a parer to slice it. I've broken more than one cheap knife. It's amazing over pasta!

Cheddar with ginger and cheddar with cranberries was a delicious addition to ours.

Yes!!! I had some black bomber today and polished off the vintage Red Leicester one recently. Amazing!

DH went out Xmas Eve and came back looking VERY furtive and pleased with himself . Christmas Day , he gave me a whole kilo of truffled Baron Bigod ( he visits the farm regularly for work and they put him one aside ).

I love that man

I love Baron Bigold. A lovely soft cheese, like a brie/Camembert, but with slightly stronger flavour. And they also do it with Truffles.

also adore the Norwegian Gjetost. A hard cheese with a caramel flavour.