wensleydale cheese

bonar

bought two lumps of wensleydale one with cranberries and one with apricots, problem is dont taste that great, any ideas what I could do with them, can you cook wensleydale?

BitterAndTwisted

Yep, nearly all hard cheeses can be cooked. I can't think of one that can't. I bet either of those would made lovely cheese-on-toast if you can't think of a good recipe or no-one on here does for you. I'm thinking walnuts. Not that that's any help

bonar

yep nice on toast problem is bought cheese from costco so LARGE chunks, any other ideas anyone?

bigsmoke

I find that wensleydale melts a bit 'funny', stays sort of lumpy, which reminds me of feta.

I could be totally wrong, but would it work in filo parcels with stuff like spinach? Crumbled over the top of a caramelised onion quiche? It's quite tart isn't it so might even work with sweet squash as a filling?

lisa26_2

And you could chop it into chuncks and freeze some so you don't have to use it all at once.

scottishminnie

I've used wensleydale with both cranberries and apricots to stuff chicken on many occasions.

Slit open a chicken breast (not right through, make a little pocket) and stuff in the cheese, sliced or crumbled. Wrap the chicken breast in a slice of bacon (optional) and if required pop a cocktail stick through to hold it together. Make a stock using chicken stock cube and some white wine if you have it. Pop in a casserole dish, cover with the stock and cook at about 180c for 45 minutes or so.

You can thicken the juice if you like once it's cooked.