Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

PasturesNew

Here are more cheese producers from round my way:
http://www.ccl-ltd.co.uk/
http://www.cornishcheese.co.uk/
http://www.lynherdairies.co.uk/yarg-cornish-cheese.html
http://www.alletdairygoats.co.uk/ - Cornish goats cheese producers
http://www.treveadorfarmdairy.co.uk/
http://www.whalesboroughcheese.co.uk/
http://www.davidstowcheddar.co.uk/

This shop sells 33 Cornish cheeses: http://www.lobbsfarmshop.com/search.asp?types=yes&type=Cheese+%3E+Cornish+Cheese

And this one beat those furreners:

"A little cheese from Cornwall has beaten off les grand fromages from France, Italy and even Switzerland to win the World Cheese Awards.
The Cornish Blue is the first British winner for a decade -- triumphing over two thousand other cheeses." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12085178 (video).


And I could find more if I really looked...

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

This is a cheese that's produced down my way - it's covered in nettles.

http://www.britishcheese.com/cornishyarg

I have had that, its good.


Here is what dh brought back (thanks for the fir censor viva)

Asiago (its good for melting, but otherwise i am not bothered)

Robiola (i love this fresh soft cheese, its certainly in my top ten cheeses, so he brought it back for me..he is not that fussed)

Morlacco (sort of sweet. Young)

Mozzarella in a treccia...like a plait.

Primo sale, this one is seasonal, its very frech and light, but, well, like the name says, salty

Gorgonzola, but its not a dolce, which is what he thought he was getting and which at its best is only really found there....

Marzolino, a sienese sheeps cheese, the rind is coated in tomato paste

Quartirolo lombardo, a bit like squacquerone ...if that helps....fresh but not sloppy, fh says a bit like a crescenza, if that helps too!

Bel pease....not the spread, but:rotfl:

I vecc, its a goats cheese, there is a fresh opne but this is the mature one. V. Strong.

Edit and a scamorza affumicata. Affectionatly known in our household as 'the butt plug'. I don't like smoked cheese.

SingleSue

I've never ever been in a Waitrose.....we didn't have one locally until about 2 months ago and even then, it's a nightmare drive into the centre of the next big town and no parking by the somewhat tiny store.

Really can't be bothered to do that (15 mile drive and horrendous traffic) and pay an astronomical amount for parking and then have to lug all the shopping 10 minutes back to the car just to visit Waitrose.

vivatifosi

Well I have to put a word in for Hertfordshire here. If you want an interesting cheese from Hertfordshire you could end up with a Wobbly Bottom:
http://www.wobblybottomfarm.co.uk/default.aspx

Though of all the products from Herts that both my family and DH's family swear by, this one (it pains me to say as a veggie) wins every time:
http://www.braughingsausage.com/
Known locally as Braughing bangers...

vivatifosi

Morlacco sounds nice lir. I once went to a farmhouse in the area north of Rome but just south of Tuscany (not sure what that part's called) and had a beautiful hard cheese with a sweetness and nuttiness of an emmenthal but with a more italian texture if that makes sense and a more full taste. You ate it sliced with honey and pine nuts and it was delicious, but I have no idea what it was, though they said it was common round there.

PasturesNew

SingleSue wrote: »

I've never ever been in a Waitrose.....we didn't have one locally until about 2 months ago and even then, it's a nightmare drive into the centre of the next big town and no parking by the somewhat tiny store.

Really can't be bothered to do that (15 mile drive and horrendous traffic) and pay an astronomical amount for parking and then have to lug all the shopping 10 minutes back to the car just to visit Waitrose.

That's because you're not posh like this lot... their housekeeper sends their chauffeur

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Morlacco sounds nice lir. I once went to a farmhouse in the area north of Rome but just south of Tuscany (not sure what that part's called) and had a beautiful hard cheese with a sweetness and nuttiness of an emmenthal but with a more italian texture if that makes sense and a more full taste. You ate it sliced with honey and pine nuts and it was delicious, but I have no idea what it was, though they said it was common round there.

Dh says thats normally sheeps cheese thing, but he can find out what cheese it was likely to be if you want

PasturesNew

Years ago, on two occasions I had a cheese fondue. Once was some office thing, I was temping and there were 3 women in the office and I can't remember why they got one in ... but I do remember that while heating it up the girl stirring it dropped her fag ash into it (big long bit too) ... so I only had a TINY taste of that one.

Next one was at a house party of a work colleague, he and his wife had just moved into their first house and it was delapidated and without carpets or furniture, but there was a table and a fondue - so I had some of that

Based on those two, limited, experiences, I love fondue .... but I've never mde one because it's an awful lot of making for just me to sit and eat (aka: billy no mates moment).

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's because you're not posh like this lot... their housekeeper sends their chauffeur

That would do for me. I could quite happily never go to a supermarket again.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Dh says thats normally sheeps cheese thing, but he can find out what cheese it was likely to be if you want

Please let him know that I think that's really kind, but I think he's just looking for an excuse to go tasting so I'd better decline;). It could have been a sheep's cheese, they had sheep on the farm. I like goats cheese, sheep's cheese, allsorts really except English blue cheese (I don't mind the sweet Italian blue cheeses but I'm not a great fan). ETA: oh and I really like smoked cheese...