Cheese

[ollie989898]

Westcombe is the stuff I am thinking about, that little area is a maze of tiny villages.

 

[Princess Pooper]

Many thanks Princess Pooper for this link. Are they anywhere near you?

No, but I do like a Westcombe cheddar!

We are in Leicestershire and members of Long Clawson Dairy, which is where our milk goes. They produce mainly stilton cheese which is another PDO protected product (it is also trade-marked so no matter what happens to EU protection post-Brexit they can't touch the stilton rules).

King of Cheeses. !

They also make a nice, nutty aged red Leicester-type cheese called Rutland Red as well as lots of added value blended cheeses and flavoured white stilton.

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Good tip is to pad out your quality cheese with some lower end stuff.
Bit like drink the quality wine first.

For cheese on toast I go: 10% Mozzarella, 40% Tickler and 50% Something inferior like Cathedral City.

Grate it into a bowl, add spring onion and a squirt of your favourite hot sauce and bobs your auntie.

 

[ollie989898]

Good tip is to pad out your quality cheese with some lower end stuff.
Bit like drink the quality wine first.

For cheese on toast I go: 10% Mozzarella, 40% Tickler and 50% Something inferior like Cathedral City.

Grate it into a bowl, add spring onion and a squirt of your favourite hot sauce and bobs your auntie.

I would not buy Cathedral city. It is like rubber. Can't beat Wyke farms, usually on sale in the supermarket for the same money anyway.

 

[averageguy54]

I do believe I have seen Rutland Red on the shelf over here, I'll have to try. What is the trademarked name on your stilton? The grocer has several different names on stilton here.
I do like to try some other types because plain old cheddar gets a bit boring after a while and I do eat a fair amount of cheese. Less harmful than half a box of chocolate or a large bag of crisps.

 

[averageguy54]

Good tip is to pad out your quality cheese with some lower end stuff.
Bit like drink the quality wine first.

For cheese on toast I go: 10% Mozzarella, 40% Tickler and 50% Something inferior like Cathedral City.

Grate it into a bowl, add spring onion and a squirt of your favourite hot sauce and bobs your auntie.
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Sounds like a treat, I'll have to try this. also taking note of the name on the inferior brand. I think I may have seen that one as well.

 

[Hesstondriver]

what cheese do you guys put with chips and gravy on that dish poutine (sp) ? @averageguy54

 

[Two Tone]

There is another cave aged cheese producer I know of in this locality.

Now, do you really think that's a nice way to refer to @Henarar?

 

[averageguy54]

what cheese do you guys put with chips and gravy on that dish poutine (sp) ? @averageguy54

Authentic poutine is made with cheddar cheese curds, suitably drained of course. However a lot of places cheat and use mozerella or sometimea a blend of mozerella and parmesan. Hot chips and hot gravy over the curd and it all becomes a gooey delight with a splash on a little salt or ketchup (has to be Heinz) and you can hear your arteries clogging up as you eat.

 

[Henarar]

Now, do you really think that's a nice way to refer to @Henarar?

I was wondering why I had so many aches and pains, must be the damp

we had some wyke cave aged the other day I didn't think it was any better than their normal stuff

 

[Princess Pooper]

I do believe I have seen Rutland Red on the shelf over here, I'll have to try. What is the trademarked name on your stilton? The grocer has several different names on stilton here.
I do like to try some other types because plain old cheddar gets a bit boring after a while and I do eat a fair amount of cheese. Less harmful than half a box of chocolate or a large bag of crisps.

The dairy used to sell several brands, and used to export via a subsidary, but I think it's concentrated them down now to 'Clawson', plus a range marketed as 'Thomas Hoe Stevenson' (one of the founding farmers in 1911). https://www.clawson.co.uk/brands/.

 

[averageguy54]

The dairy used to sell several brands, and used to export via a subsidary, but I think it's concentrated them down now to 'Clawson', plus a range marketed as 'Thomas Hoe Stevenson' (one of the founding farmers in 1911). https://www.clawson.co.uk/brands/.

Okay, thanks. I'll take a look this week when I go to the grocers. I like to patronize smaller businesses instead of the Krafts and Saputos of the world. I find most of their cheeses ho-hum.
I was raised on Danish Blue, grandfather emigrated, and so when I buy it, I buy Danish made, the local stuff doesn't cut it.

 

[Yonlass]

This is as good as any cheddar I've tasted

Ocado

www.ocado.com

Made at Taw Valley Creamery

 

[averageguy54]

This is as good as any cheddar I've tasted

Ocado

www.ocado.com

Made at Taw Valley Creamery

Not a bad price really, that amount of local cheddar here would be 5.80. Another dairy to add to my list.

 

[Blaithin]

Where the heck do you find different cheeses @averageguy54? I’m happy if I can find boring old Cracker Barrel Monterey Jack to spice things up

Not that I’ve bothered to try and shop around to find a more artisan cheese store... that would involve more city time.

 

[Martyn]

I know we could buy tickler cheddar cheese when in canada a few years ago

 

[Hesstondriver]

Authentic poutine is made with cheddar cheese curds, suitably drained of course. However a lot of places cheat and use mozerella or sometimea a blend of mozerella and parmesan. Hot chips and hot gravy over the curd and it all becomes a gooey delight with a splash on a little salt or ketchup (has to be Heinz) and you can hear your arteries clogging up as you eat.

i like it when they put chicken on it too, ??

 

[averageguy54]

Where the heck do you find different cheeses @averageguy54? I’m happy if I can find boring old Cracker Barrel Monterey Jack to spice things up

Not that I’ve bothered to try and shop around to find a more artisan cheese store... that would involve more city time.

On CPP, My artisan cheese shop is the deli section at Superstore and/or Sobeys. I always take a wander through looking for those little stickers that say 30% or 50% off. That's how I try new cheeses. Most of the time I realize why it's 50% off and it's scratched off my to buy list. However this one is a good one, the rest I'll keep an eye out for.
Plain old Cracker Barrel is good, I've had my fair share of it for sure, but I prefer to buy the local cheeses if I can. For years I was able to get one from Sussex Cheese and Butter that I quite liked but it's not carried, on a regular basis anyway, at Superstore anymore. My grandfather used to ship to them years ago. Lately I 've been getting one from PEI, called Dairy Isle, it does taste different than Sussex Cheese. They're both priced similar to Kraft.

 

[Ball acre]

Sussex cheese! Keep an eye out for Royal Sussex, bound to be out soon.

 

[averageguy54]

I read tonight that Harry is having trouble using Sussex Royal so perhaps not.