Cheese!

Purple Haze rocks...I don't care for goat cheese in general, but it was tasty. I got it for SWMBO 'cuz it just was just so "her." Fave color: Purple. Last name: "Hayes" and she loves goat cheese. Total win.

Got a hunk o' Chimay Grand Cru at the same time. Nummy.

Agreed with the Cambozola...it was my gateway drug to blues

Some people are like slinkies....not really useful for anything, but you can't help but to smile when you see them tumbling down a flight of stairs.

Tonight I had a nice slice of King Island Roaring Forties Blue. Quite tasty!

My first love, where to begin?

Bleu D'Auvergne- a classic French laid back blue

Epoisses- A delectable pungent (o.k. one of the stinkiest) washed rind, cow- enjoy with friends...

La Tur- I believe this was mentioned earlier (?) but well worth repeating- a taste sensation, creamy layered flavors with (Cow, goat and sheep milk) had a similar one from same area & perhaps same maker in Italy but with just goat/cow and it paled to this beauty.

Please visitYou were once wild here. Don't let them tame you. Isadora DuncanAbstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Ambrose Bierce

Cambozola is our cheese of choice for most events.
Our love affair began many years ago .... we would go wine-tasting in the Yakima Valley or Oregon, and picnic lunch would consist of cambozola, sour-dough bread, summer sausage, pickled asparagus, and of course wine.
Need a cheese-eating emoticon!

I find it always good to have someplace you can go into and know there will be somebody to chat with and find out what new/interesting cheeses might have arrived.

I'm also fortunate in that the Thriftway near me has a wonderful cheese selection, perhaps even more then are at the cheesemongers, just nobody handy to chat with. I regularly stop in and just see what soft/stinky cheeses they might have handy.

My biggest problem, is that the names of the cheeses are so "uncommon", that it's hard for me to remember from one visit to the next which one I've had. I need to start keeping notes :->

(would have deleted a lot, but.... Stupid tablet...)

Humbolt fog is an excellent cheese. Frankly, I lucked out. I was a cheese madman before I moved to 'cheese country USA'. Q

"Here's to the corkscrew - a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit, the treasury of laughter, the front door of fellowship, and the gate of pleasant folly." - W.E.P. French

One of my favorite local cheesemakers did their own version of the Fog, and it seems like I bought a round and ate it all myself. Luckily the mister doesn't like cheeses with blue flavors...more for me!

If you want a rather strange cheese, Trader Joe's has a cheddar with dark chocolate.
Two flavors I love by themselves, but the combination is very odd. You'll probably love it or hate it, or be like me and change your mind between loving it and hating it each time.

"Rogue River blue cheese is wrapped in grape leaves that have been macerated in pear brandy. Its forward, well-aged flavor tastes of brandy, fruit and burnt cream. A creamy, crunchy-smooth texture conjures specks of rock candy dissolving like divinity. The antique linen-hued paste features random tôile-styled patterns of green blue veins and the rind is gracefully imprinted by its grape leaf wrapping. The flavors of our signature terroir include hints of sweet pine, wild ripened berries, hazelnuts, morels and pears."