No Wensleydale, Gromit?

[caddyman]

Damn you, Wallace and Gromit, damn you.¹

I have just spent £26 on cheese. A nice big chunk of sentient Stilton, a decent size piece of Berkswell and a nicely mature single Cooleeney. But there is no Stinking Bishop, it has suddenly become harder to buy than a pork pie in Mecca. Until three months ago, no-one had ever heard of the bloody stuff; other than me and a bunch of Catholic priests who would buy it as a joke present for the bishop (the cheese emporium lies about a half way between the cathedral and the bishop’s residence), practically no-one knew of its existence. The rather sad looking cheese vendor (a man in a bowler hat and a butcher’s smock) informed me that he had ordered ten and had none delivered.

Such is the power of plasticine film stars.

I have bought instead, a cheese by the name of Vacherin Mont d’Or which I am informed is both runny and smelly². So runny in fact, that it is served with a spoon.

I am led to understand that some people wrap it in tin foil, douse in wine and bake it for 10 minutes. This apparently makes it into something like a fondue but with none of the usual hassles.

My furry cardio-vascular system and I are intrigued by the prospect.


¹But not really, of course.
²I am hopefully confident that it is actually a cheese with that description.

Comments

[pax-draconis.livejournal.com]

The board of the Royal Turoneirosophical Society salute you, Admiral. We look forward to a seminar on your forthcoming expedition into five-dimensional space, with slides, cultures and colour diagrams.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Sir, you shall have it.

Once I have rebored my arteries.

[ysharros.livejournal.com]

Vacherin is yummy.

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

An archaeologist's curse on you. Now I want cheese.

I am not at all sure that is a good idea...

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Ah, Miss Furtle.

Cheese is always a good idea. It is the secret ingedient; there is not a foodstuff on the planet that cannot be improved by the addition of cheese.

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

I maintain that tea does not need cheese added. Well, not to the liquid, anyhow; I suppose tea alongside cheese is acceptable.

And chocolate. Chocolate-coated cheese. No. Just no.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

You must not think of cheese as just cheddar and stilton etc.

There are many mild, creamy cheeses out there. If they can use them to make cheese cake, then they can be used with chocolate.

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

Ah, but when you restrict it to a foodstuff on its own -- such as chocolate -- then I maintain that even something of the order of Mascarpone would not necessarily work.

On the other hand, it could be fun trying. Hmm, have both mascarpone and chocolate in kitchen...

[pax-draconis.livejournal.com]

Chocolate-coated cheese

I say unto you mascarpone and chocolate whip.

Cheese is puissant.

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

mmmm cheese.

Quick anecdote:
There was a really nice goat's cheese we used to get in France - 'Fromage au Cindres'.
Unfortunately for several years we'd misheard the name and kept asking for 'Ashtray Cheese' instead.

Luckily they never gave us what we asked for.

[keith-london.livejournal.com]

" harder to buy than a pork pie in Mecca" LOL It's harder still to buy a halal pork pie in Mecca!

[oldnick.livejournal.com]

Berkswell - sounds interesting (and local). What's it like?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

It's a nice hard sheep's cheese. Similar texture to fresh parmesan, but not nearly as strong, and not smelly. Has a hint of apple in the flavour.

[romney.livejournal.com]

I think I might have a small tub of Quince Cheese in the Fridge...

...well it's the right colour to be Q.C. so I'll bring it along. Whatever it is.

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

Neal Street, or somewhere else?

I was in the dairy one month ago; they still had Stinking Bishop then, but W&G had only just opened. If you are there, you need to try the Montogery Chedder.

Vacherin is interesting - Pasturerised or not?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Neal St is hard to get to at lunchtime from Victoria, but there's a cheese emporium in Lower Tachbrook St in Pimlico, only 10 minutes walk from the office.

It doesn't have the rustic charm of the neal St establishment, but feels more like a proper dairy.

As for the Vacherin, let us mere say that it is a bacteria playground...

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

mmmm....

(And it's "Montgomery" - help from a cat typing earlier)

[pipsytip.livejournal.com]

we love colleney and stinking bishop its like hens teeth round here too!