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Espresso Stout Braised Short Ribs over Point Reyes Blue Grits
If this blog post title didn't grab you, we simply cannot be friends. The very makeup of all my relationships is based on a mutual love for cheesy grits. All of these flavors are just wowza. The...
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Cheesy Turnip and Potato Soup
Draping ugly sheets over plants in your front yard sure does work up an appetite. This hearty winter soup will make you feel warm and cozy on a cold day. You should break out your immersion blender...
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Close-up on this Week's Plate: Green Hill
When we decided to expand our selection beyond Texas, one of the first cheeses we sought out was Green Hill Camembert. Seven years later, it's become a reliable good friend. Whenever we need a cheese...
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Winter Quiche with Redneck Cheddar
I love quiche for several reasons. For starters, you can put anything your little heart desires in a quiche. You can go crustless and vegan or rich and decadent. It's an opportunity to use your...
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Tasting Plate Close Up: Latte Da Gouda
Latte Da Gouda from Flower Mound, TXAnne Jones of Latte Da Dairy is the kind of cheesemaker who makes cheese because it enables her to have goats. A retired veterinarian, Jones applies her expertise...
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Roasted Radish and Truffle Crostini
Sottocenere is a cheese we love so much that we named a cat after it. This truffle laced, ash rind cheese makes an appearance on this yummy snack. Radishes in the raw are peppery and slightly bitter....
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Tasting Plate Close Up: Eagle Mountain's Tomme de Hood
When the Dairymaids visited Eagle Mountain Cheese in Granbury last spring, they came back with a new experimental cheese. It was Eagle Mountain's first tomme and it was delicious. Beneath a pretty...
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Curry Queso
In the weeks building up to Super Bowl Sunday, I receive an unusual amount of phone calls from my dad. We have very important discussions regarding game day menu, Super Bowl trivia (which I suck at)...
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Close Up on this Week's Tasting Plate: Bellwether Farms Pepato
Photo Courtesy of Bellwether FarmsWhenever we have Pepato on the tasting plate we marvel at it. One of us always ends up declaring, "this is one of my favorite cheeses." Usually, it's me. An aged raw...
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Creamy Cauliflower Mash
It was bitter sweet when farmer David stopped selling his veggies at the farmers markets. Utility Research Garden is now focusing on delivering their farm shares directly to families and local chefs....
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Cheese Plate Close Up: Barely Buzzed
Playful, striking, and delicious, Barely Buzzed belongs on your Valentine's Day cheese board. Barely Buzzed starts out like any other cheddar at Beehive Cheese Company in Utah. After a day, however,...
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Sweet & Savory Sarvecchio Cookies
Dear dudes,Please spare your sweet girlfriend the typical store bought card or lame, long stem chocolate covered strawberries. No loving woman should endure an awkward and overly crowded dinner....
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Spicy Texan Soyrizo Flatbread
There's a saying that young kids use today. I believe it goes something like "aint nobody got time for that". It has become a widely understood mantra, because life is in fact busy. Don't feel bad if...
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Tasting Plate Close Up: Little Mountain
When we visited Roelli Cheese last summer in Shullsburg, Wisconsin, Chris Roelli gave us a taste of one of his newest cheeses, Little Mountain. Rich, nutty, and smooth, it was one of the few cheeses I...
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The Dairy Mary
In honor of the tiki gods, we're featuring a tasty libation for the fellow cheese snob. I don't claim to be a mixologist, but I have paid my dues behind a bar (and on a bar stool). I have poured...
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Tasting Plate Close Up: Little Boy Blue
Sheep's milk and blue belong together. The bright fruity flavors that tend to come forward in sheep's blues are unique and wonderful. No surprise that the first blue, Roquefort, was a sheep's milk...
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Tasting Plate Close Up: Pure Luck Chevre
photo by Kerrisa TreanorDairymaid life during kidding season can be a little sad. Not only are we deprived of Pure Luck, but we have to give the same disappointing report to customers all day long:...
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Pure Luck Chevre Blueberry Marmalade Muffins
Pure Luck Chevre is back! Is it just me or did the kidding season seem to last extra long this year? At any rate, I'm happy to be faced with a different predicament: how to enjoy this wonderful cheese....
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Tasting Plate Close Up: Rogue Smokey Blue
Oregon grows 99% of America's hazelnut crop. The first commercial hazelnut trees were planted there a little over 100 years ago. Blue cheese is also an Oregon staple thanks to the Rogue Creamery, which...
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Colby Beet Burger
As a cook and a cheese monger, I live by one simple rule: every ingredient matters. Sand Creek Farm is one of our beloved Texas cheese makers that share this principle. They take special care with...
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