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The kids and I have had it with fast food.....we only had some about ten times a year.....but we cannot even stomach that anymore. 
ON a whim one day last year...we grabbed yummy, organic bakery bread, various cheeses, humus, olives and whatever and had ourselves a little picnic.
It was SO good.......we have been doing it ever since.
But, there are so many cheeses to choose from.....
I was wondering.........what do you love the most? What recommendations can you share?
Thank you!
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I like brie and camembert
the smoked gouda is much better than plain gouda
I'll have to check when I'm at the store again but there's a really good irish cheese..
medium to sharp cheddar is always good
and havarti is so yummy.. plain or with dill or with caraway
the cheddar with port can be good too
Oh and the horseradish cheddar.. yumm.. I would have some fruit (sliced apples or such) along with the bread and cheese with that one.. the sweet would go so well with the spicy.
I love bread and cheese as a meal.. with wine when it's feasible 
I found a great economic lunch when I was in college was going to the on campus deli where you paid by weight.. I'd get one of their harder sandwich rolls with just cheese on it.. pay about $1 for it.. then eat it open face with a layer of cheese on it.. yummy and easy.
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Would that be DUBLINER Cheese, Jodie?
Our friend introduced this cheese to us.....and we enjoyed some on our last picnic. MMM good!
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oh yes.. that's it.. The same company has others (we looked them up online.. Kerrygold) that look fun to try as well. But the Dubliner was the one we've had.
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Oh where do I even BEGIN? I am passionate about cheese. I don't think I have *ever* given it up for any period in my life!
The above mentioned are all great. I'll add a big favorite over here, lately: Manchego. Oh yum. I just cut off a chunk and eat it. So good with olives and hummus and pita!
We also love Cambozola, which is like a cross between a Brie and a Blue Cheese, on crackers or sourdough chunks.
Both of these I have been able to find at Costco.
I love good Parmesan, Asiago or hard cheeses and will eat them plain, sliced, or in a chunk. And they go with everything. I will grate it over any bread, vegetable, meat, soup, or practically any savory item.
Another yummy Parmesan-type cheese is the Mexican Cotija (good over soups or in salad or any Mexican food). Or the very salty Greek Mizithra. Harder and saltier than Feta. They are both good crumbled over hummus or bean dips on pita chips.
My kids' favorite is Smoked Gouda from Trader Joe's. I also suggest going there if you can and trying a new cheese. They have many unique types. Not too expensive to try. Irish cheeses, English Cheddars, many types of brie, many types of nutty Swisses like Emmenthaler and Gruyere, or Fontina, which are so good in Fondue with wine.
One of the best Sharp Cheddar cheeses of all time is, in my opinion, the Cracker Barrel Extra Sharp (in the red wrapper). It makes the best homemade macaroni and cheese!
You can see I love CHEESE---and thank heavens I am not lactose-intolerant.....YET!
Enjoy....yummers. 
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I love all the cheeses already mentioned and will add...
Wensleydale - we've had it with dried apricots, oh sooooooooooooo yummy
we really like all chevre - plain, savory (garlic and herbs) and sweet (dried cranberries)
feta is fab
About the only cheeses that I'm not fond of are the blue cheeses and other super-powerful cheeses...which makes me think of a quirky book called,
The Old Man Who Loved Cheese.
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A quick lunch that everyone loves here: munster cheese melted under the broiler on bread (any kind of bread will do). Munster has this really nice buttery taste. I sprinkle a little salt and garlic powder on first. Yum!
Also, Tillamook has excellent cheese. Very smooth for a cheddar. We like the sharp cheddar baby loaves that can be found at Costco.
Enjoy!
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I personally have never met a cheese I didn't like.
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To all of the above I'll add one more....
buffalo milk mozzarella.
It comes closest to the only real Filipino cheese in existence, "kesong puti", which is a fresh cheese made from water buffalos' (carabao's) milk.
current fave cheese-and-___ combination:
savory taralli, pecorino toscano, and gancia spumante
grilled kasseri (greek sheep's milk cheese)
also gouda or edam on fresh baked brioche.
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Gruyère! I once visited the village in Switzerland, toured the dairy where the cheese is made, and ate lots of the cheese. Here's a link to the village with a picture of the beautiful castle.
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I love brie as well & cream cheese . I even like a nice blue cheese in small bits , it has a nice bite .
My dh loves havarti . Oh I love love grilled swiss cheese sandwiches with salsa ! I discovered those while prego with #5
our youngest is like I was as a child no cheese kid . Except for mozza on pizza .Some of us are quite sensative to dairy as well . Our older ds loves all cheese . He loves a sandwich grilled with cheese meat & saurkraut . He also likes this smoked cheese & gouda(sp ? ) very much .
Cheese with fruit is so so good. My mum always made us & now her grandchildren cheese & honey sandwich 
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My 16yo ds's favorite is Fontina, but we're finding that not all Fontina's are alike. He makes awesome pizza for us every weekend and he says the secret is that he mixes some fontina with the mozzerella.
We can't have much dairy here. A little seems fine, but if we start eating it regulary, like daily, everyone develops sinus problems. We do the pizza once a week but the other cheese we eat are all "special" cheeses for lack of a better word.
The drawer in our fridge used to be filled with huge blocks of cheddar, colby or co-jack, but now that is replaced with smaller packages of Fontina, goats milk, feta, and currently, Port Salut. Gone are the days of slicing off a slab of co-jack!  We've learned that for us it's better, and even more enjoyable, to eat a small amount of one of these stronger cheeses with crackers, or apple slices, or wine for my dh and I.
And Chari, we did the same thing once when we were traveling. The weather was beautiful, so instead of stopping for fast food we ran into a big grocery store that had a great deli and bought cheeses, good bread and a veggie tray. The kids still talk about that! We're headed on a trip soon and I'm going to remember this thread to make our meal times on the road a bit more special than "happy meals" and "quarter pounders"
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lapazfarm wrote:
I personally have never met a cheese I didn't like.
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lapazfarm wrote:
I personally have never met a cheese I didn't like.
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Yes!
Why am I getting to the conversation so late? I do believe that this thread will go down in 4Real history as *the best EVER*. I am a cheesehead!
Being part-Greek, I have a special place in my tummy (heart), for all things Goat!
My favorites include:
Mizithra
Feta
Kaseri
Kefalotiri
Graviera
Ladotyri
...my goodness. If I make it Greece someday, I will surely spend my time at the farmer's market, or a sheep/goat farm, taste-testing all the varieties.
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We often do the same thing for lunches out - go to the supermarket or Trader Joe's and grab some bread and cheese, etc.. Better than anything we could get at the fast food places.
One of our favorites is munster cheese (or monster as we like to call it) on oat bread - or 7 grain type bread - with lettuce. Mmmmmmm ...
Monterey Jack and Colby also make for great sandwiches, but we tend to have these on crackers.
ETA: How could I have forgotten one of our all time favorites? Fresh mozzarella with good Italian or French bread! Add some fresh fruit for dessert. Costco sells Polly-O fresh mozzarella balls for about 3 or 4 dollars a pound - really good deal! Makes for fun finger food too.
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Chris V wrote:
lapazfarm wrote:
I personally have never met a cheese I didn't like.
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Yes!
Why am I getting to the conversation so late? I do believe that this thread will go down in 4Real history as *the best EVER*. I am a cheesehead!
Being part-Greek, I have a special place in my tummy (heart), for all things Goat!
My favorites include:
Mizithra
Feta
Kaseri
Kefalotiri
Graviera
Ladotyri
...my goodness. If I make it Greece someday, I will surely spend my time at the farmer's market, or a sheep/goat farm, taste-testing all the varieties.
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I know this is TOTALLY and completely off-subject, but Chris were you raised at all Greek Orthodox or are you a cradle Catholic....just curious! You can tell me to mind my own business, too. You know your Greek cheeses, that's for sure!
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Nina Murphy wrote:
I know this is TOTALLY and completely off-subject, but Chris were you raised at all Greek Orthodox or are you a cradle Catholic....just curious! You can tell me to mind my own business, too. You know your Greek cheeses, that's for sure!
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...Both! Well, sort of . My Dad is Greek Orthodox and my Mom is Catholic. We were raised in the Catholic Church, so I'm a cradle Catholic. However, my Dad's family (very large and wonderful - all 14 of them!) had a rich, rich cultural influence on our family. I cannot get enough of the authentic Greek cuisine - so delicious! Though we didn't practice Greek Orthodox, we did observe the Greek - Easter celebration, as well as our Catholic traditions as well.
I don't mind you asking one bit Nina! I love talking about my family. My parents. Their parents. Such tremendous people they were, and are.
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Oh wow.
A good provolone.
Chevre! Esp on good crackers...yummm. With herbs? Oh me oh my...
Mozzarella--fresh, it is the BOMB! (and it is actually pretty easy to make at home, too).
Colby, smoked gouda...I'm not too big on the really soft cheeses, or the blued/moldy ones...lol.
I want to get into making it myself one of these days, assuming our cow is pregnant, and we can ever get to milk her (she's a fence jumper, and boy, am I going to have my hands full with HER and a calf!!).
Anyway, those'd be my picks. Nothing fancy (goes back to those German and English roots I think, lol). Give my a slab of bread, a slab of meat, and some decent hard cheese, and I'm a happy peasant!
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juststartn wrote:
Mozzarella--fresh, it is the BOMB! (and it is actually pretty easy to make at home, too).
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I've never even thought about trying to make it at home - what an awesome idea!!! Any recipes???
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Uhh...my dad worked in a cheese factory...I've even toured it!
My dd's imaginary friend (when she was 3) was named Cheesehead...
My fave cheeses:
Mozzarella di bufala (see Stef's comment!)
Any good, sharp cheddar
Gruyere
Feta
Gouda
Parmigiano-Reggiano
And, if you've never tried raclette, have I got a new winter meal for you!!!
Raclette is a cheese that has a very strong odor, but a milder taste. You melt it and pour the melted cheese over potatoes and add griddle-cooked meats and veggies...wow. We own a raclette grill; specialty cooking shops sell them. Raclette is very popular in Europe (my cousin, living in Amsterdam, introduced us to it; our German friends have a raclette grill, too.)
Without the grill, you could boil potatoes, saute kielbasa slices, shrimp, onions, green peppers, etc. in a pan, melt the raclette cheese in the microwave and put everything together - potatoes, meat, veggies and cheese on top.
Raclette got its start as an apres-ski meal; the cheese was melted on stones heated in a fire.
We buy our raclette at the military commissary or at Trader Joe's. The cheese is strong - don't make this meal the night before Mr. Importantperson comes over for Sunday brunch.
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