I love cheese. Seriously, I don't know what I would do if I were lactose intolerant. The quality of my life would be significantly reduced if I weren't able to eat cheese anymore. I love ordering a good cheese plate when I'm out to eat, and I'm always disappointed if it comes to the table with, like, Bleu, Gouda and Goat cheese. Seriously!? Do you KNOW how many good cheese exist and you give me a wedge of Gouda?
In the spirit of Cheeses (pun intended) here's some delicious pictures I found on From Me To You - a favorite blog of mine.
A few hints for your dinner party (or just a great evening in with friends or a lovaaaa)
Serve around 4 different kinds of cheese on a wooden cutting board with a swipe of jam across for dipping. Find some great crackers, sweet crackers compliment bitter cheese, sallty crackers compliment sweet cheese. When you get your wine, bring a list of the cheeses you'll be serving and the flavors in them. The somalier should be able to tell you what wines will best compliment your fromage.
And it's always nice to start with something light... Maybe prosecco, a bowl of cherries and a good salami. Then introduce your cheese with labels secured onto toothpicks. For small additions, add bowls of honey still in the comb, varied chutneys and pestos, and some quince paste. Don't worry about not having a main course-- Never underestimate the ability one has to fill up on cheese and crackers.
Throw on a great movie like French Kiss or Amelie, but mute it and play the film's soundtrack as background music. If you have a porch or patio and the weather is welcoming you can always string up some white lights, and if there's an autumn chill, start a fire-pit!
With this many good cheese in the world, there's not good reason not to share them with friends.
Xo BJG
hey Joy!! nice blog entry ! i'm french so i know how cheese is good and how many various kinds exists!! and in france we love to eat it in a raclette (a melted cheese with potatoes and delicatessen meat!!) or in a tartiflette with a melted reblochon with potatoes and oignons and diced bacon) it's amazing in winter in front of the fireplace!! but the best is a piece of cheese with a piece of bread!! just delicious!! when you'll come to france in february you should taste some of them many cheeses!! our shops are full of good cheeses!! can't wait to meet you at the convention by the way :))
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YUM! Love the idea of French film on mute with soundtrack playing. Sweet.
ReplyDeleteI sooooo love cheese too, would have it with everything that I eat if I could. This blog has put me in the mood for a cheese & wine party, away to plan it, thanks Joy :)
ReplyDeleteCheese of Minas Gerais - Brazil, has eaten? They are the best!
ReplyDeleteJoy, I'm sure somehow, you're from Europe, I'd say you're from Savoie or maybe Alpes-Maritime...
ReplyDeleteThank you for the tips, as a French living in Belgium, I forgot all those good things. Mince, j'ai envie de fromage maintenant ! ;)
We love cheese too here in Germany :) My favs are french ones like "Bonbel" and "Géramont". Do you know these? I'm a real "Camembert-Girl" ;)
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I love cheese too! Unfortunately I can no longer have dairy :( Im breast feeding and baby doesn't react well too it. I am patiently waiting til the day I can indulge again!
ReplyDeleteHi Joy, I'm a HUGE fan of your acting, Singing,etc....I love cheese too :) But I don't have a wide taste for it like you do. Loved your blog about the girl with the temper btw lol!
ReplyDeleteLove and blessings!!
p.s. it would pretty much make my bday coming up if you would read and or follow my blog http://handi-capable.blogspot.com/
Can I just have a cheese plate for lunch? Would that we weird?
ReplyDeleteIf I couldn't eat cheese, my crackers would feel naked. And not the sexy kind of naked. The insecure naked where they just want to hide under a blanket.
And then I'd have to try to take my crackers through self-esteem workshops to say that "you're still beautiful and tasty without cheese! You are not abandoned!" And eventually they would reach a point of self actualization and would be proud of their "cracker-ness" but that's a lot of effort for a cracker.
What were we talking about again? Oh right, cheese....
mmmm...
Cheese to me is like a bell for the Pavlovian dog... Lol! (not as much slobber though) As a cheese lover, you probably know about Murray's Cheese in ny http://www.murrayscheese.com/
ReplyDeleteI really love that you are getting your readers intrested in seeing French Kiss! This has been my favorite movie for years and years and I think that everyone should see it and dream of having a crazy adventure with a handsome frenchmen! Oui!
ReplyDeleteWell, that was something new we learnt about you!
ReplyDeleteThe best cheeses are in France! Haha
ReplyDeleteI LOVE cheeses! I love your blog, Joy!
When will you propose us three things cool? :) xo
Have you tried the Cougar Gold cheese from Washington State University? Sooo good and rich!
ReplyDeleteYou live in Washington now, you MUST try Cougar Gold. It's the best thing that will ever come out of the Palouse!
ReplyDeleteHey Joy !
ReplyDeleteI'm from France, and more specifically from Savoie (Savoy) ... Do you know about Tomme de Savoie ? Beaufort ? Reblochon ? Raclette et fondue ? Yep, that's all coming from where I live :) So, let's just say that I love this post, and feel prood that a great woman like you enjoys such simple things (and good things ...) coming from my region !
Lot of love from France, to you and your family !
- Claire.
Hey Joy! I have recently started following your blog and am very much enjoying it.
ReplyDeleteI´m a cheese lover as well and since we are on the topic of food I would love to know about your personal secrets on nutrition, exercise and keeping healthy. I am recently starting a new nutrition plan beacause of health issues and would like to know your opinion on these important subject matters as you have a beautiful figure and seem really healthy.
Looking forward to your response!
Have a nice week!
I got back in July from 6 months in France. Lately I have been really missing it. This post brought me back there. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteHow do you feel about Brie cheese...? ;)
ReplyDeleteLOL! I love cheese too! Can do without meat, but never cheese. Have you ever tried any Greek cheeses? Obviously feta, but there is also Kasserie, Kefalogravera and Manouri(which is actually Cyprian). All very good! Growing up in my family, we always had cheese at our dinner table everynight of the week. Each meal always ended with a big chunk of crusty bread and a hunk of cheese, so good!!!
ReplyDeleteLove you and love your blog!
Grrr this is the third time that I try to comment it, bref!
ReplyDeleteI undersant you so much! the french girl that I am has been raised in cheese! Yes! My father gave me my first slice of Camembert when I was 6 months old and I loved it since this moment.
If I may suggest some cheese it will be the Roquefort, who looks to Bleu but it's so much tastier, goat cheese, sheep's cheese and especially Etorki( which come from the south west of France and generally eat with a black cherry jam, WONDERFUL!) and the Rocamadour. Of course, with one with a wonderful french bread...bien sur! Oh I almost forgot the Comté from jura, with a glass of "Bourgogne Aligoté" (white wine)
Others suggestions, the Raclette and the Fondue Savoyarde, which are cheese recipe... DELICIEUX
And not French but Italian, and I'm sure that you'll know it? Parmegianno reggiano!
I really think that I have to stop myself right now or I will write you a novel!
I hope you'll have the occasion to taste some of them during your stay in France in February!
xO
CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE!! A long love story. If you give me a piece of bread with cheese and a glass of wine, I would the happiest girl in the whole world. Gouda, Camembert, Raclette (I'm veggie so instead of meat, I eat salmon). Fondue with vegetables, Brie, Comté...
ReplyDeleteI'm french. Cheese is a part of our culture. Most of us love having cheese at the end of their meal or during the day.Really good thing.
xo
I'm a French girl, I am very suprised (in a good way) to read that some American people like french cheese and don't call it sticky, stinking cheese! I'm a cheese lover :)
ReplyDeleteSounds so delicious, unlucky for me I am lactose intolerant devastating I know!
ReplyDeleteI very much enjoyed this blog. I am a huge cheese lover myself and always on the prowl to find a new cheese to try. I actually used to have a wonderful cheese shop by my house and would go there all the time with my mom. Sadly it is closed now, I'm going to have to find a new place. Thank you for sharing this blog with us. Now I want to to and have a cheese and wine tasting party with all my friends..lol.
ReplyDeleteOH MY! Day after I discovered more about you & I like it.
ReplyDeleteI loved cheese, actually I do love it but in the last 6 months I'm learning how to live without it (lactose intolerant!! - 32 years old and I won it)
Can you tell us about Maria??
Miss to know your life as a mom.
xoxo
Carol - brazilian fan!
One qick thing.... you are just so dang adorable :P :) What can I say either then I just love it. :) I was actually having that conservation weeks ago, I think I'd fall over without cheese. When I was younger, I use walk to soly get out american cheese fold it in half and said that I am making a cheese doughnut. I was(am) a strange child LOL. I loved and still love my cheese, so umm yea I'd be in trouble if I couldn't have it anymore. I was seriously salivating reading this LOL. Anyway, Love you!
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Shawnna Lynn Mitchell
Hmm...I was diagnosed with lactose intolerance in February this year. Figures! Prior to that I could easily devour a Brie in one sitting. Though I can still savor a vintage slice without any repercussions and anything else is at my own risk. I miss eating as much or as little as I please!
ReplyDeleteI love your blog (: So incredibly real and super cute, thank you for that. I just wish i could put you in my pocket! My favorite thing paired with cheese is a fig. Yummy! And I just came across Arsenic and Old Lace on Netflix. Youre right, so weird. But I enjoy this so much, thank you for sharing Joy! :D
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