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I thought I have seen this posted before but cannot find it! Any hoo let's post up some good cheeses, ones paired up with food, drink or stand alone eating cheeses! For me the grilled cheese sandwich is one of my most favorite foods and for this I really like good old fashion run of the mill chedder cheese.

I've recently been eating Jarlsburg cheese and like it very much. Sort of like swiss cheese but slightly milder I think. Good with crackers and summer sausage. Not the most flavorfull of melting cheeses so I do not recommend melting or a cooking type cheese. Good and delicious as is I would say a good ale would be best with this cheese say a Grolsh or a Rolling Rock:)
 
I'm partial to very sharp salty aged white cheddars. I think black diamond is one of the brands I get. I love to drizzle it honey. Very good on a cracker, too.

For anyone who has not had fresh Parmesan, you're missing out. That powdery stuff in the can is sawdust. I didn't even know Parmesan could melt until I got the real stuff.

Parmesano-Reggiano is good to, but a little stronger. I'd sooner shred it lightly onto a salad than dose my pasta with it.

Don't care for Romano. Smells too much like feet to me.

A good blue cheese is very enjoyable. I don't care for Roquefort. Maybe I didn't get a good brand, but it tasted really chemical-like to me. Not good.

Not a fan of Brie, but like the Roquefort, I might have got a bad brand. It was like soft plastic with a taste that reminded me of dishsoap. I'm going to try again though, since the rest of the world seems to go apeshit for the stuff.

Not a fan of swiss, but Jarlsberg is enjoyable.

Manchego is good, but I'd consider it more of a cooking cheese.

Fresh mozzarella is great, especially if you can get the stuff that comes packed in whey.

Marscapone cheese is divine. Everyone should try this. Think of cream cheese texture, with the taste of slightly sweet butter. Oh gods, it's good.
 
I'm not much of a cheese eater, Mostly plastic cheese toasted sandwiches but recently I was at a friends place for dinner and she gave me some King Island triple cream Brie on crackers with the nice bottle of shiraz we were drinking it all went down a treat and I will be having that cheese again.
 
Mascarpone is pretty good, theres a great dessert made with mascarpone and blackberriesand then warmed in the oven YUM! I also love Brie.
 
It's Parmigiano-Reggiano .Made here it's very young .Grated is awful. Imported is 2 years old but that's ok. The real stuff is 3-5 years old !! Like a cheddar and some others the aging increases flavor and you get more complex flavors. An aged cheese will hold it's flavor when used in cooking a young cheese won't !!...Another good Italian cheese is Asiago.
 
Triple cream brie from Trader Joe's with a baguette and some bosc pears. Brie and dried salami sandwich on french bread.
 
I'm a Smoked Gouda lover. Good with anything IMO. I also like Smoked Goat cheese (Feta?) we have a friend that sends us some now and then, very nice.

Anyone have a favorite Smoked Gouda that might be available to purchase intrastate?

I haven't ventured into the Bries yet.
 
My favorite by far is bleu cheese, especially with a slightly crunchy texture. I eat it by itself with a pinot noir or merlot cleanser.

as for cheese with other food, nothing beats a rare hamburger with smoked swiss.
 
Favourites:
Roquefort #1.
Most smelly washed rind cheeses (there's a small place making one up north from me Fromage du Nord - wonderful, family hate the smell but I love it).
Gouda with cumin but even better a local maker is doing gouda with fenugreek seeds in it. Fabulous.
Never met a goat cheese I didn't like.
Halloumi with mint in it - grilled. Mmmm.
 
I like the farmer's cheese from Sweden called Bondost ?sp. I eat it on top of rye

crispbread spread with Kalles Brand codfish roe. I know it sounds really fancy, but I'm

told by my Swedish friends that it is a common meal/snack over there for breakfast or

between meals.
 
Yikes! Velveeta shouldn't even be mentioned in a cheese thread. It is a yellowish plastic cheese-like food substitute. We moved an old refrigerator out when I was a kid and found an old slice of Velveeta behind/under it. No telling how long it had been back there but it was shrunk a little and hardened. Not a hint of mold anywhere. Buzz Aldrin could have took that stuff to the moon and planted the flagpole in it. :eek:

My favorite (affordable) slice type cheese for grilled cheese sandwiches is the Sam's Choice Deli Deluxe American Cheese. It is comparable to Kraft's Deli Deluxe American Cheese at a WAY lesser price. Melts good and (unlike Velveeta) it is real cheese. :D

My favorite (expensive) slice type cheese is Land-O-Lakes white American. Good stuff but way overpriced.
 
How did you know my weakness!!!
Being Italian/American - Parmesano Reggiano, a fistfull of Tustan bread with a nice Northern Italian white will do me just fine thank you!
 
I raise goats.

Here are some cheeses I made:

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I raise goats.

Here are some cheeses I made:

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In the pic is fresh chevre in olive oil and garlic. Some Feta I made. An aged chevre you can see the rind on it and a fresh chive, black pepper garlic cheese ball coated with roasted sesame and I think the other is a fresh chevre with oregano on it.
 
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