Cantenaar is a sharp, tart, hard cheese that has the added benefit of about 40% less fat than a lot of cheeses. This cheese has a lot of flavor! I have a tough time finding it in my city, but buy several pieces when I am back in Toronto. If you have them vacuum sealed it will keep for months. IMO this cheese is perfect with a really hoppy IPA. I'm eating some as we speak with a Tree Hophead Double IPA. Superb!SteelbackGuy wrote:BooBoo wrote:I absolutely love cheese with beer and there is always four or five different cheeses on the go whenever I host a tasting.
Cantenaar is one of my all time favs.
Pray tell about the Cantenaar.........
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- markaberrant
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Was able to get the French Muenster this morning, as well as some raw cow milk cave aged gruyere. Gonna see how these taste with a couple of schwarzbiers (Paddock Wood Black Cat and Kloster Badebier) as an appetizer, and then move onto a main course of grilled salmon marinated in a maple soy sauce.
Try Muenster for grilled cheese. Awesome stuff.
Try Muenster for grilled cheese. Awesome stuff.
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Ok so I have a massive slab of Parmigiano-Reggiano (which is made with RAW COW'S MILK BTW) that I am working through tonight. One sliver at a time. Absolutely divine!
Sid, this also works with the Hophead.
Sid, this also works with the Hophead.
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Yeah, that was really GREAT place. I sampled a lot of stuff from there!SteelbackGuy wrote: Ohh they are legal. You can get raw milk goat cheddar, raw milk mozerella, raw milk anything really....all at SMith's Cheeses in the market here in London.
Here's my new local:
http://www.carmelisgoatcheese.com/order.php
I gotta find someone with cows now... ;D
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Belgian wrote:Parmigiano Reggiano (thin wedges as a snack)
Cheddar (3 YO bulk from St Lawrence or sometimes Irish Cheddar.)
Maybe some Asiago.
Sometimes Isle of Mull (thought too freaking costly now.)
<---- Interested in Isle of Mull!!!
I tell ya, that Reggiano is like crack!
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It is a cloth-wrapped 'farmhouse' cheese with dark pungent seams running through it. So depending who made it, the ripeness and the cut it is always a little different.SteelbackGuy wrote:
<---- Interested in Isle of Mull!!!
There's also some rare breed of cow they use for part of the milk.
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Y'all talkin' 'bout cheese?
Well let me tell you.... a real good, real nice, real good cheese shop in the middle of no-where is "Local Dairy Products" out of Ingersol, that guy knows his fine cheeses! Real artisnal stuff. Here is an article on his company.
http://www.ontariocheese.org/press/ont_ ... -05-30.php
I can find a few of his products, like the paneer, at the Covent Garden in London.
Additionally, whenever I find myself in Toronto, you go down to Cheese Magic, and Global Cheese at Baldwin St. & Kensington Ave. Those guys will take care of all your cheese needs! Huge free samples of any cheese you point at, and all the info and background on anything they sell in the store. I once asked them for a cheese that tasted like butter, they had two! I forget the names but I'll be damned if I couldn't tell i was eating cheese or butter that's how good it was.
Check 'em out!
Well let me tell you.... a real good, real nice, real good cheese shop in the middle of no-where is "Local Dairy Products" out of Ingersol, that guy knows his fine cheeses! Real artisnal stuff. Here is an article on his company.
http://www.ontariocheese.org/press/ont_ ... -05-30.php
I can find a few of his products, like the paneer, at the Covent Garden in London.
Additionally, whenever I find myself in Toronto, you go down to Cheese Magic, and Global Cheese at Baldwin St. & Kensington Ave. Those guys will take care of all your cheese needs! Huge free samples of any cheese you point at, and all the info and background on anything they sell in the store. I once asked them for a cheese that tasted like butter, they had two! I forget the names but I'll be damned if I couldn't tell i was eating cheese or butter that's how good it was.
Check 'em out!
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