The Christmas cheese thread

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What are you having?

I picked up some Gouda with fenugreek (the best cheese ever), some Gouda with black truffle and some brie.

It's my Christmas Eve tradition. I'll be indulging with some crackers and olives tomorrow evening, while I watch a Christmas movie. And wine obviously.

Lancashire cheddar
truffle Baron bigod
calvados camembert
Shropshire Blue

cant wait !

if you’re a cheese lover try cheese and honey sandwiches at some point

My people!!

Every year, we have Cheese-mas in the days leading up to Christmas Day, which is basically a dinner of cheese, some cold meats and a lot of relishes.

We got a proper cheese advent calendar this year as a treat, so we have about 15 cheeses left to choose from 🤓🧀 as well as a full boneless serrano ham 🍖

now, what’s everyone drinking with it?!

I'm not sure if it's possible to go overboard cheese wise, but I've given it a shot.

For example I appear to have three bries (2 x baron bigod and an ordinary one), and at least 13 other types.

That excludes the cheddar, halloumi and philadelphia that usually resides in the fridge.

This is my our Christmas cheese selection (excluding the feta/marscapone/soft cheese etc that we're cooking with and the standard cheddar for the cheese and pineapple hedgehog). I'd completely forgotten about the brie with truffles :( And I didn't manage to get the usual half wheel of Blacksticks Blue. Still we have plenty :) I love cheese )

Can I come to yours? Black sticks blue is the cheese of gods!

We have the trio of Boursin too. V excited by this.

Ooh love cheese, my favourite indulgence

I have

Stilton
Wensleydale and Cranberry
Barkham blue
Somerset goat
Somerset Brie
Double gloucester
Sharpham rustic
Glastonbury clanger
Cream cheese with herbs and garlic

Devon fire chutney, quince jelly and caramelised onion chutney
Grapes, celery, apple, crackers, rye bread, melba toasts.

Also smoked salmon, charcuterie

This is mine plus some Old Amsterdam and a red wine marinated cheese from tesco. Can’t wait!

After reading this thread...I don't think I got enough cheese 😭😭😅!!
Some of these sound amazing !

But can I ask you cheese experts a question please

DS is the main cheese lover and I bought him a different one.
Epoisses .

I have only just realised the date on it .
It says 24/12..

DS is coming the 27 th .

Will it still be ok ?

What an amazing thread,

My daughter and I love cheese so when she comes up for late Christmas I'm going to find a couple of the suggestions on here.

Oooo cheese, Gromit?
This year we have

Cropwell Bishop Stilton
Boursin
Cambozola (which I adore)
Poitou-Charentes Goats' Cheese
Extra mature cheddar
Philadelphia
Wensleydale and sour cherries
I think I got a camembert too but can't remember where in the fridge I stuffed it.

I was going to get some Taleggio but forgot like a twit and I'm not going back out again!

Truffle Brie
Cornish Cruncher
Stilton

I'm going to grab some more tomorrow. Ideally a Brillat Savarin and a Gruyère. Maybe a Dolcelatte.

Oh and DH has some Spanish truffled sheep's cheese in his stocking that o hope he shares!

My favourite selection posted. Have a prize 🏆

I'm the only cheese eater in the house. I've gone for:

Wensleydale
Roquefort
Blacksticks Blue
A '7' strength Cheddar

I also have some very strong pickled onions, some pickled chilli cauliflower, medjool dates and some Miller's toasts. And grapes.

Ooh, and rhubarb, apple ginger chutney!

A nice runny Brie
Roquefort (my favourite)
Smelly Stilton
Wensleydale and cranberry, in the shape of a star, no less.
A strong Cheddar
Something a bit like Boursin from Lidl
Got some fig chutney and various biscuits, plus some caviar, olives, grapes and salad stuff to go with it all.
Yum.

Our cheeseboard this year is:

Isle of Mull cheddar
Comte
Gorgonzola
Goat's cheese
Epoisses

Truffle honey, chilli jam and caramelised onion chutney for accompaniments plus baguette and grapes.

@bizzey your Epoisses will be absolutely fine. Leave it out for a few hours before you want to eat it and it smells stronger than it tastes. It's amazing!

I have far, far too much cheese. I honestly didn’t think that was a thing, but I’ve proven it so this year.

Cornish Yarg.

Ohh @ThreeRingCircus ...thank you.!

I recently discovered smoked Red Leicester in Morrison's and really liked it so I bought some of that, also some smoked Shropshire Red (I love smoked cheese that isn't the processed German cheese), Manchego and a nice mature Cheddar (I would have bought vintage but the DCs prefer a less sharp/salty cheddar)

I have no idea.

Dh did the shopping and the cheese is in the fridge in the garage. Dh and I both love cheese, so there'll be enough to feed twice the number of parties in the house. He knows I love foreign cheeses as well as British, and goats' and sheep's milk cheeses as well as cows', so I expect quite a range of hard and semi-soft cheeses.

I rather like the mystery and anticipation 😁

Me to DH: Do you think we have enough cheese?
DH: The whole fucking top shelf of the fridge is rammed with cheese, so yes.

I brought back some particularly stinky farm cheese from Hungary and the smell hits you in the face when you open the fridge.

Here’s ours. I’m slightly regretting the lack of goat, and I’d have liked an Epoisses but really can’t cope with it in the fridge.

I've started a Cambozola already and got Coastal Bite cheddar, camembert and montagnolo blue in the fridge