Cheese - which of you spend a lot of dosh each week on cheese and what do you get?

[DarthVader]

I am interested to know what cheesaholics are getting these days

Port Salut, Boursin, Mature Cheddar.

Bugger you I'm going to have to have chesse and biscuits now!

i am on the reblochon myself

Yorkshire Blue, Stichelton (if I get the chance), something nice and goaty, something soft (maybe a pie d'angelous or chaource) and something dutch.

A tad poncy me thinks but then again I spent two years working in a cheese shop in London so maybe I can be let off. Didn't know there were other cheeseaholics out there, I could live on the bloody stuff!

I make special trips to France for cheese, such is my addiction

When in the UK I used to buy a lovely mature cheddar at the farmers market. And Cornish blue. A french cheese shop opened in Exeter for nearly a year and stocked really great tomme de savoie and roquefort.

Here in Italy I live on gorgonzola, pecorino and taleggio (though it's difficult to get a nice one nowadays)

Sage Derby, Cheshire, Feta, Leerdammer, Mature Cheddar, Parmesan.

We go to the Nantwich cheese festival every year and eat everything in sight.

One day I would like to buy a small farm in Ireland and make my own cheese just like my granny used to!!

Cheddar. Parmesan. Manchega. And Philadelphia to spread on bagels.

And in my last shop, I bought some Halloumi on impulse. Haven't eaten any yet.

well i love cheese but am poor

and scared of getting fat

but i like chaource

and reblouchon

and i see i am not the onlhy one

i dont like made up cheese like stuff ewith fruit ion

I love Asda English Goat's cheese - its like cheddar and only £1.68, way cheaper than anywhere else. And Ossau Iraty which is sheeps cheese. Yum.
If anyone knows where you can get smoked goat or sheep cheese pls tell me - I really miss it!

If it wasn't so fattening I would have a fridge devoted to cheese. But as I want to look fab in my bikini on holiday this year, the only cheese I have allowed past my lips recently is of the cottage variety .

However I adore obscure indiviual spectacularly fragrant varieties, stilton, gorgonzola and a good extra strong cheddar.

my fave at the moment is Yarg(the one with the nettles)
feta,haloumi,parmesan and arse clenchingly strong cheddar for DD1

m&s do a lovely mature ched called cornish crunch. really salty and crumbly and lush.

i love full-fat cottage cheese as well, though, our local dairy sells little yog pots full of the creamiest. absolutely perfect size for a snack.

NKF
haloumi is wonderful, I slice it up, chuck some olive oil and herbs on,leave to stand for a few minutes then grill of dry fry it with some cherry toms -slap it between two slices of your favourite bread, the best cheese toastie in the world

...love all cheese, however mouldy and smelly it might appear.

At least, I had always believed this to be the case.

....then I visited a cheese shop in Bath, and bought a large (and prohibitively expensive) wedge of Stinking Bishop. I carried this precious cargo home, and spread the pungent goo on fresh baguette. Then took a hungry, salacious bite...

...before running, gagging, to the wheelie bin, heaving copiously.

WARNING: do NOT buy this noxious substance. I believe it to be a complex joke, played upon the cheese loving public by a cruel and vindictive dairyman...

I LOOOOVE cheese, and could happily eat it for every meal.

At the moment in my fridge I have:
Philadelphia - it's my weakness
gouda with cuminseeds- great for cutting into chunks and adding to salads
manchego semi curado - delicious as aperitif
mature cheddar
parmesan - gone a bit old and stale, so only for grating now
San Simon - a nice smoked cheese from Galicia

cathederal city mature cheese is loved by all in our house and the price is good too

we like quite a strong cheese but at the price. Lately sainsburys/tescos have had Cathedral city extra mature/pilgrims choice extra mature/seriously strong cheddar on 2 for 1 or 2 for £4 offers, so have stocked up over the last few weeks and have about 8 packs in the fridge - they've all got really long dates like end august.

I would spend a fortune on cheese every week but I would only eat it

I restrict myself to only one or two trips to the cheese shop a month

Currently I am favouring

Ardi Gasna
Doddington (though the last lot not that great)
Burgundy Marc washed Chambertin

My fave cheddar is Mull of Kintyre from waitrose - I prefer it to all the poncey ones

My mum brought me a huge livarot from france yesterday

Mainly cheddar. Because I cook with it and the children eat it as a snack all the time. And feta for salad. Stilton often too. Not much else really. I love all cheese but I get into a rut with what I buy.

My personal fave is St Agur

love stinking Bishop!

Dh eats Pyrenee and Comte by the truckle load - apologise if spelt wrongly - nearest I get to exciting foreign cheese is a mini babybel, or the chedder with pickled onions in or the one with garlic and herbs that you get at our local deli - none of that foreign muck for me!

DH once ate some smoked cheese and I spent the next hour asking everyone in the house if they had trod in dog shit - the smell was so awful I was gagging whilst checking their shoes!! It was DHs breathe so smoked cheese (or dog shit cheese as I call it) is now banned in our house.

God, I love cheese and would spend inordinate amounts of money on it given the opportunity. Currently in my fridge, there is sadly only parmesan, mature cheddar and taleggio, mainly for cooking purposes.

In my ideal fridge, however, I would absolutely have a balance of eating cheeses including:

• a rich oozing Vacherin Mont d'or (actually, not in the fridge at all, but sat on the side and trying to escape from its box)

• a fresh pert, but hard nosed Comte

• a sharp crumbling and very slightly bitterly aromatic Cornish Yarg

• an intensely pungent and fragrant Bleu d'Auvergne (probably angling for a fight with the Vacherin)

All accompanied with a large glass of very cold Meursault and some plain, unadorned wheat crackers.

I will now go and lie down and whimper quietly.