Cheese lifestyle, reviews and recommendations
Flavoured cheeses are divisive. We have found this to be true over years of cheese nights. Some, like Chilli-flavoured cheeses, have caused arguments over the years and remain the only cheeses to score both 0 and 10 in the same… Continue reading "Double Gloucester with Onion & Chives (Lidl Valley Spire)"
I cannot deny I bought this simply because it was termed “a cheese ingot”. I am never one to turn down cheese marketed in the same terms as gold bullion; once again, I was not disappointed. This cheese appeared in… Continue reading "Coastal Bite Ingot Truckle (Tesco Finest)"
Goat’s Milk Gouda is a non-standard twist on the Dutch classic Gouda, made with goat’s milk instead of the usual cow’s milk. It is a hard, whitish-yellow cheese with a waxy rind. Phil and Pez ate this cheese at an… Continue reading "Goat’s Milk Gouda (Marks and Spencer)"
There are many things to celebrate at Christmas. While the evenings may be dark; the world convulsed with relentless geopolitical upheaval; lockdowns and restrictions keeping friends and family apart, there is at least a lone star hanging above the horizon:… Continue reading "The Twelve Days of Cheesemas"
When we started preparing the more in-depth and regularly scheduled cheese reviews for the website, prior to my first shopping trip, I took the opportunity to look back at my cheese scores over the years and try and identify cheeses… Continue reading "Ossau-Iraty (Marks and Spencer)"
Christmas is a wonderful time of year for cheese and the expanded selection on offer at Lidl prompted a mini-cheese night with the family featuring 6 of the cheeses you can pick up right now! We start this series of… Continue reading "Gruyere (Lidl ‘Deluxe’ Reserve)"
Lincolnshire Poacher is a hard, Cheddar-like English cheese. The texture is firm, brittle and crumbly, the colour golden-yellow, and the rind complex and variegated. It is an unpasteurised cow’s milk cheese. The packaging warns against consumption by those with weakened… Continue reading "Lincolnshire Poacher (Marks & Spencer)"
What does it mean, to be a cheese? The dairy pantheon is extraordinarily diverse and admits a striking variety of flavours, textures, shapes and experiences. It is on the face of it as bizarre and wonderful to me that a… Continue reading "Burrata (Galbani)"
Despite what the name may suggest to those such as me who are uneducated in the French Language, this is not in fact a French version of a popular carbonated beverage, but is instead a particularly delightful variety of cheese… Continue reading "Doux de Montagne (Marks and Spencer)"
Cheddar really is the workhorse of the cheese world. A family favourite for its versatility, solid value for money and pleasant middle-of-the-road taste. Another ace up its sleeve is the vast array of varieties in which this humble cheese can… Continue reading "Cheddar (Lidl ‘Deluxe’ Vintage Somerset Crunchy)"