AT FIRST there were dozens. Then there were just four. And for a brief time, it looked as if there would be only three. Indeed, it's been a struggle for southern Colorado to hang onto its goat dairies, which sprang up when Italian immigrants who came to work in the region's mines in the early 1900s. In their heyday, 30 to 40 dairies supplied them with Italian-style goat cheese -- a hard cheese and a soft ricotta, both very different in taste and texture from the more familiar French chevre.
Amid the canapes and delicate phyllo fingers hosts feel obligated to conjure during the holidays, a cheese platter may seem like a cop- out. After all, you didn't make it. But a well constructed cheese board is a sure way to please your guests and show off your food savvy. Start by not getting carried away. Choose a variety of cheeses that offer contrasting tastes, textures and colors. For instance, try a soft goat cheese, a hard sheep's milk cheese, a semi-soft washed-rind cheese and a creamy blue.
Rotary Cheese Grater. Ask any cheesehead and he or she will tell you this type of grater is tops for quickly and efficiently getting cheese onto pasta and casseroles. Easily handles hard cheeses, like Parmesan, as well as softer cheeses, like cheddar. It can also grate chocolate and nuts. Look for one that is of very sturdy construction; the rotary motion can be stressful on some models made with lightweight plastic. Cost is around $15 to $20. You can find the rotary grater at Sur La Table, Williams-Sonoma and Target. Microplane: Whereas the rotary grater cranks the cheese out, the microplane has it falling like fine snow. Originally designed from a plane used in wood working, this is a very handy tool for finely grating cheese and chocolate, zesting an orange or lemon and shredding fre...
Alessandra Trompeo, center, creates soft cheese inside her converted garage, or "cheese cave," using fresh milk from the Chapel Hill Creamery. Trompeo's soft cheese in curd form, left, before being pressed into rolls and aged in a cooler inside Trompeo's home business, La Casa del Formaggi, right. She started the business in June 2007. PHOTOS BY DEREK ANDERSON Among the cheeses Trompeo regularly makes are il Duca, made in the style of Toma, an Italian semi-hard cow's milk cheese; and the Duchessa, similar to a Raschera, another soft cow cheese with complex salty and "green" notes. She also makes a Gorgonzola-like blue cheese and a casera cheese. Knowing how to make the cheese and when it's "done" is a fine dance between precise science and a precise palate. "To make cheese, you need to ...
I make cheese. It's sort of like a party trick because it seems to awe and amaze people sometimes when they come over and I serve homemade cheeses, but it's the most functional and self-sufficient party trick ever created. Sometimes, I'm even awed and amazed myself that I make cheese. I never saw anyone make cheese in my whole life. Until a few years ago, it never even occurred to me that real people just like me could make cheese at home. All kinds of cheeses, from cream cheese and other soft cheeses to hard cheeses like Romano and cheddar.
...Choose four cheeses--one blue cheese, one soft-ripened cheese like brie or camembert, one hard ch...
If you'll be ringing in the New Year tomorrow night or celebrating during the Rose Bowl game Friday, you'll need some easy, stylish appetizers or snacks. We've rounded up several of our favorites, many of them no-hassle. Mix and match to suit the festivities. If there's not much time to cook, pick up items at delis, specialty markets, gourmet shops or warehouse clubs such as an assortment of interesting cheeses, tapenades, pates, cured meats, cooked shrimp, salsas, dips, stuffed olives and marinated mushrooms along with breads and chips. Supplement with a few, fast homemade savories that can be made in advance.
...For instance, try a soft goat cheese, a hard sheep's milk cheese, a semi-so...
For some of us, pistachios are simply that guilty, in-front-of- the-TV pleasure, leaving our fingers sore from cracking shells, the floor in front of us littered with shell halves. Slide Show
...2 tablespoons cream cheese or soft goat cheese. 1 cup hard cheese, cubed (pic...
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Today, members of St. Joseph of Optina Russian Orthodox Church will gather at 2 p.m. in their church's dining room in Virginia Beach. They will feast on lamb and paska, a sweet dish made with a soft, white cheese and decorated with the Russian letters, "X.B," meaning Christ is risen. They will have kulich, a traditional bread, and vodka, the staple beverage, and hard-boiled eggs of all decoration and color, but definitely red, dyed to symbo-lize the blood of Christ.
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