I hope everyone is enjoying their long weekends, the lovely weather, and plenty of time outside!!! For this week's dosage of Marriage Monday's I thought I would do cheeses to top veggie burgers or for those of you non-vegetarians out there, cheeses for regular burgers -- otherwise known as fantastic melt able and pliable cheeses that exhibit unknown nuances when heated and melted.
Don't worry this will be a short post as I am sure all of you ladies and gents want to get out there and have fun or get in bed because you've had too much fun!
Contestant Number # 1: Ossau Iraty - The classic sheep girl next door, except this chick hails from the French Pyrenees, actually from two adjacent provinces, the Ossau Valley and the wooded Basque hills of Iraty -- already a cheese of contradictions! These sheep's milk rounds are aged for at least ninety days and deliver the quintessential sheep's milk tastes -- buttery, sweet, grassy, gooey, nuttiness all rolled into one cheese. A fantastic cheese on its own or paired with wines and plenty of foods!
Contestant Number # 2: Pecorino Tartufello - Mix the unctuous-ness of unpasteurized sheep's milk cheese with the richness and decadence of black truffles and you are left with Pecorino Tartufello. Looking to impress your cocktail party guests with an approachable yet somewhat "dressed up cheese," go with this option!
Contestant Number # 3: Smokey Blue - This contestant hails from the other side of the United States of America -- Oregon. Now don't get me wrong, Smokey certainly comes from a good creamery -- the Rogue creamery that manufactured the first blue cheese made on the west coast of America. Getting back to our matters at hand here, Smokey is actually smoked with hazelnuts for sixteen hours giving the cheese a nutty and of course smoked flavor to add on to the sweet, piquant, pliable qualities of the blue. Definitely a must try! However, certainly not for those who don't like blue or smoked flavors!
So which contestant do you think will win?
Stay tuned for the answers tomorrow morning!
Have a good night folks!
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