Today's Ten on Tuesday topic is: Your 10 Favorite Cheeses.
For as long as I can remember, I have been a cheese lover. If I didn't love it so very much, I could possibly consider becoming a vegan. But a) I don't really want to, and b) I love cheese too much to give it up easily.
Anyway, in no particular order, and as they came into my brain, here is my list:
1. Swiss cheese.
2. Cream cheese.
3. Cottage cheese and ricotta cheese. Different cheeses, but a similar category of cheese to me.
4. Cheddar cheese - particularly horseradish cheddar!
5. Sharp provolone - I like regular provolone, but given a choice, I'll take sharp.
6. Brie cheese. A few years back, a friend of mine sent us a 2-pound wheel of brie cheese for Christmas. Trust me, that's a LOT of brie. However, we made the sacrifice necessary and finished it ...
7. Blue cheese and gorgonzola cheese. Though they are different cheeses, I think of them as similar, and love them both.
8. Smoked gouda.
9. Mozzarella - especially those fresh mozzarella bites you can get at cheese shops!
10. Parmigiano Reggiano - this is my favorite cheese to put on the top of pasta.
So many more cheeses ... there are not many that I *don't* like, and my "favorite" changes pretty regularly!
What about you - are you a cheese fiend?
5 comments:
Oh my Lordy I love cheese. I am sadly known by staff in my last job that I've never met before because of my legendary love of smelly, stinky cheeses.
Some of my faves are:
pecorino tartufo - pecorino with a layer of the scrummiest black truffle
Brie de meaux - esp when runny
vintage cheddar - grand strong stuff, none of the woosey mild nonsense.
Emmental
Vintage gruyere
Dolcelatte
Parmesan
Mozzarella
Stilton or any other blue cheese and stronger the better
Mascarpone
I am really lucky as where I live there are two fabulous cheesemongers locally who do amazingly wonderful ordinary cheeses and fabulous special cheeses.
I forgot about ricotta! So make that two cheeses that I like - mozzarella and ricotta!
Oh yes, cheese fiend would describe me quite well. It is a food I'd never want to give up.
I like all those cheeses you list, but I think my favorite is cream cheese. I could eat that stuff with a spoon! Whenever I bake a cake, it MUST go with cream-cheese frosting or it doesn't get made. I could eat that stuff with a spoon, too (and often do!). I love brie almost any way, but especially baked in puff pastry, with a fruit & pecan sauce topping. Yum!!
I love all those cheeses, but my favorite is Fontina. I could live on broccoli and melted fontina!
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