Day Three Hundred and Eighty Four : Looking forward to Springtime

It's the last day of February -- no more snow coming down, yes it is still technically winter, but it sure isn't as cold as it has been. Today's weather repertoire of rain, gray-ness, and slightly better temperatures signaled to me that Spring was on the horizon. It was the sort of day that makes you feel like you've been transplanted from New York to London. So I thought we should have a cheese that is full of sunshine and brightness today, hinting towards Springtime. What cheese would that be?

Hailing from the Golden State with warmer temperatures and plenty of sunshine, this young cheese follows in the footsteps of yesterday's "Social Network" cheese pick -- Fresh chevre from Cypress Grove Creamery in California. Known as Purple Haze, it is a four ounce disk of young tangy goat's milk paste infused with lavender and fennel pollen -- full of herbaceous and vegetal notes. This is a cheese that feels alive, full of pep and spunk -- to me it signals mornings of birds chirping, blue skies, sunshine and leaves sprouting on the trees.

Want to fast forward to springtime? Go grab a wheel of Purple Haze and a nice bottle of white wine and put the cold, dreary, snowy, winter behind you!

                                                               Image courtesy of www.cypressgrovechevre.com