Where Should I Eat My Cheese?
I brought back a nice wedge of semi-soft cheese. It tastes great! That's why I bought it. But yesterday morning, I cut the cheese out of its vacuum sealed packaging and WHHOOOOAAA! It smelled like a dirty diaper!!! Holy cow (and goat)! The cheese was still good and fresh. It was just stinky. I don't remember any smell coming out of it at all, when I was in the cheesemonger's shop. The smell filled the kitchen with its stinkiness. The cheese tasted good still, but holy moly! I guess I don't have to tell you that the smell did not encourage me to put a piece of that cheese in my mouth.
The only explanation I have for why I bought dirty diaper cheese without KNOWING that it smelled terrible (but tastes good) is that the cheesemonger's shop smelled really bad. You smelled it as soon as you got in the door "like a punch in the face" as Jerry Seinfeld would say. (Hey, cheese is based upon mold and bacteria, so it shouldn't be shocking) My guess is that our senses had acclimated to the smell of the shop, so I didn't smell anything from that Gab Ietou.
Now, being the cheap person I am, in combination of being prissy about stinkiness, I have am in a predicament. I want to eat my cheese, because we paid for it and carted it back here to the states, AND it still tastes good once you get past the smell. However, do I get past the smell? My first thought is to sit on the front porch and eat it. That way, I'm not subjecting Corey and the "children" to it. But what does that do for me? So, maybe I need to eat it in a stinky setting? Where would that be? A cheesemonger's shop would be ideal, but Bako doesn't have any cheese shops. Eat at the county dump? How about a cigar bar? Cigars smell nasty. That could work. --and absolutely NO EATING in the bathroom!!! Nobody suggest that. You may as well suggest that a lady gives birth in a sixfoot grave.
I'll ask Jessica at Moo to suggest what to do about the cheese. Maybe that's why it goes will coffee or wine? Maybe the drinks somehow compensate for the stink?
posted by Jennifer McKenna @ 6/15/2009 08:01:00 AM
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Jessica's husband, Richard, said that I should eat something sweet with my cheese. That's why a lot of cheese platters include fruit. The sweetness of the fruit helps take the edge off the stink, and it cleanses the palette between cheeses. Dried or fresh fruit will work. Can throw some nuts in like almonds or pecans to break it up, too. I'll try some fruit and cheese with bread tonight :o)
Sunday night, Corey, Pudge, and I sat out on the porch and listened to the live music floating over from the Beale Park Ampitheatre. I brought out the cheese, fruit, and crackers. Once again, Pudge didn't want to get too close. Kinda' funny :o) Anyhow, this is what I found out: 1) fruit DOES clear the palette of any lingering cheese taste in your mouth. It's very refreshing! 2)what that means is that once you start eating stinky cheese, you should NOT eat the fruit until you are DONE with that particular cheese, because once you acclimate to the smell, the cheese is nice, but if you eat fruit and then go back to the stinky cheese, then you have to re-acclimate. It was a nice adventure in culinary dairyland, but I must say... I am no cheesemonger in the making. Can't get past stench :o)
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