Day 982 : With Daylight Savings in full effect....

Spring ahead, fall backward hit me pretty hard this year -- suddenly it was dark out when my alarm went off at 6am but boy was it thrilling for it to be light out past 6pm making it feel like a proper premature springtime. So what to do in honor of New York City feeling like springtime and in celebration of Vermont Creamery's Wrinkles are Sexy month? How about making a bright green salad topped with crumbles of Bonne Bouche, the super star of Wrinkles are Sexy?

What's in today's green salad?

Baby Arugula
Baby Fennel
Spring Onion
Mediterranean Squash (the lighter, somewhat pastel green squash)
Sugar Snap Peas
Lemon
Bonne Bouche
EVOO
Salt
Pepper

Super easy to assemble, this celebration of the upcoming exciting bounty of Springtime will bring a smile to your face during the beginnings of March.

Start off by sauteing your Mediterranean squash with some diced up spring onion over low heat. While the squash is cooking, toss together your arugula, diced up baby fennel, and sugar snap peas. Toss with some EVOO and a squeeze of lemon, sprinkle with salt and pepper. After approximately ten minutes, combine the cooked squash with the remainder of your veggie and top with our Wrinkles Are Sexy Bonne Bouche and enjoy with a glass of bright and citrusy Gruner.

Cheers to Springtime!

Day 978 : Wrinkles are Sexy

Oh yes they most certainly are when they come in the form of geotricum rinded goat's milk cheeses from Vermont Butter and Cheese. What is Geotricum you might be wondering? It's a yeast that is added to goat's milk during the cheesemaking process. This yeast will cause a cheese's rind to wrinkle as it ages and my friends the more wrinkles, the better the cheese will taste!

Inspired by the age old geotricum style cheeses crafted in France, Vermont Butter and Cheese if you ask me crafts the best Geotricum rinded cheeses one can find in America. Vermont Butter and Cheese produces four fabulous Geo cheeses that have taken years of development, experimentation and perfection -- Bijou, Coupole, Cremont, and Bonne Bouche. Bonne Bouche is the cornerstone of their Geo cheese line. Released in 2001 to the marketplace, this hand ladled goat's milk disc that is aged with ash is decadent, luscious, creamy, crisp, grassy, citrusy, and wonderful. It is truly a cheese to dream of.

So this month, Vermont Creamery is giving away five Bonne Bouche prize packages in the month of March via their blog and Facebook page -- http://www.vermontcreamery.com/wrinkles-are-sexy-1?wtst=200.

How do you win?

By sharing your favorite recipe and / or pairing with Bonne Bouche so get inventive guys and win some of my favorite Vermont goat's milk cheeses!!!!

Along with Vermont Creamery's giveaway, Fromagical will be giving away one Bonne Bouche prize package as well. So write to us and tell us your favorite Bonne Bouche recipes and pairings and one lucky winner will receive an awesome Bonne Bouche Basket!

Day 752 : Wrinkles are Sexy - The Wonders of Bonne Bouche

Bonne Bouche yes that's French for a "good or mouthful/bite." But it is also the flagship geotrichum-rinded aged goat's milk cheese from Vermont Butter and Cheese. First released to the public in 2001, this cheese has gotten better with age -- not just its cave aging, but the creamery has worked very hard to perfect this little morsel of soft ash ripened goat's milk cheese. And if I do say so myself -- boy have they succeeded! It is outstanding. I'm not the only one who thinks so, the cheese won gold at last year's World Cheese Awards.

Think Loire Valley style ash ripened goat cheeses like Selles-sur-Cher, add in the terroir and specific tree ash of Vermont, the local farms' pasteurized goat's milk, the special touch of the Vermont Butter and Cheese creamery staff, and a little je ne sais quoi and you get Bonne Bouche. Tangy and chalky yet bright and citrusy with a nice milky smooth finish and piquant hints as the cheese ages.

The cheese is aged just long enough to develop its fabulous wrinkles which are the cornerstone of Vermont Butter and Cheese's March Facebook Campaign, giveaway and Whole Foods samplings in and around New York this month. So how do you win?

Step One: Like Vermont Butter and Cheese on Facebook

Step Two: Share your favorite photo, pairing concept, or serving tip for Bonne Bouche or something you find interesting about the cheese.

Step Three : Cross your fingers that you win the weekly random giveaway basket of this fabulous cheese. Vermont Butter and Cheese will be giving away one basket per week in the month of March.

So why wait around? It's time to enter the Wrinkles are Sexy campaign! I guarantee you will love Bonne Bouche!

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