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Post by Moose on Mar 21, 2016 22:23:52 GMT
Oh the wonderfulness Love the flavour. I like sheep's cheese too. More flavourful than most cow's.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Mar 22, 2016 21:57:23 GMT
Hate the stuff. One of only two foods I don't eat.
On the other hand, I adore and love sheep's cheese.
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Post by Moose on Mar 22, 2016 21:58:39 GMT
Sheep's cheese has a nice salty consistency though does not cook well.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Mar 23, 2016 5:24:21 GMT
The national dish of Slovakia uses sheep cheese, it's not cooked but is added to the hot potato gnocci type things and it's so delicious. Mmmmm could add that to the good but unhealthy food list. It also has speck in it.
Haloumi is nice for cooking. It does have a little goat in it, but as long as I get a variety that is mostly not goat it's fine.
There was one goat cheese which I did enjoy and it was from a local dairy, almost like a ricotta, basically didn't have goat flavour at all. It was really nice on fruit bread.
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Post by JoeP on Mar 23, 2016 10:19:49 GMT
I keep thinking this is the thread about the goat's Facebook imposter. Which is a very cheesy thing.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 23, 2016 17:18:37 GMT
Yes, cheesy indeed. But I believe in cheeses. Swimmer and I took a 'barging through Langedoc' tour and had regular evening meals from local grocery and dairy product. In France, the "fromage" is an entire course of at least two meals a day. We were inundated with tastes of the local cheeses, soft and hard, fresh and aged. I developed a distinct preference for the Basque aged sheep milk cheese, Etorki. Yum. When I think of 'goat cheese', I generally think of chevre, one of the great soft cheeses. It is much lower in milkfats than standard bovine milk soft cheese (like Philly cream cheese spread). A cracker with a coin of chevre, a coin of tomato, and a fresh basil leaf is a really decent horse duver.
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Post by jayme on Mar 23, 2016 23:20:50 GMT
What?! Is WG lactating?
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 24, 2016 17:01:36 GMT
*sigh* Learn the difference: 'Billy' ~ 'Nanny` In my case, I sometimes insist upon 'William'. And those of us of the cisgender male persuasion do not lactate. And London...in London they also do not lack Tate.
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Post by Moose on Mar 24, 2016 19:30:48 GMT
*ducks all the flying puns*
I've never got the measure of haloumi. I gathered you were supposed to grill it so, after an unsatisfactory taste of it 'raw' I did. But I can't say that I was blown over. And it's hideously expensive - I only bought it cos it was on offer
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Post by juju on Mar 29, 2016 22:04:20 GMT
Hate the stuff. One of only two foods I don't eat. On the other hand, I adore and love sheep's cheese. This, exactly. I hate goats cheese, it smells like wee. But sheeps cheese is fine - I like feta very much.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 8:43:43 GMT
I'm not sure I have ever eaten goats cheese, but I think I would prefer sheeps cheese as well.
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Post by Moose on Apr 5, 2016 19:42:13 GMT
Goat's has a very distinctive flavour - not like wee but something I can't easily describe. It's nice and creamy too but it's not 'mild'
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Post by raspberrybullets on Apr 5, 2016 20:37:59 GMT
To me it has a flavour like lamb. They both have a similar smell, pungency and taste.
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Post by juju on Apr 6, 2016 9:06:10 GMT
To me it has a flavour like lamb. They both have a similar smell, pungency and taste. Like wee. Even when I ate meat I never ate lamb, for that reason. But oddly I still like feta, and absolutely love halloumi. I think because they are very salty.
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 6, 2016 14:30:46 GMT
To me it has a flavour like lamb. They both have a similar smell, pungency and taste. Like wee. Even when I ate meat I never ate lamb, for that reason. But oddly I still like feta, and absolutely love halloumi. I think because they are very salty. Heh...It took me forever to get used to feta. And I love Med foods. Feta, to me, has an 'acrid' taste, like vomit. I generally avoid it, but it has nothing to do with wee.
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Post by Moose on Apr 9, 2016 20:03:15 GMT
I love feta.. can eat it all by itself. Lovely and salty.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Apr 12, 2016 9:55:29 GMT
I love feta and haloumi as well. Yum!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2016 0:32:12 GMT
Feta is ok, but I've never been a big fan of it. I have never had Halloumi. I keep thinking of "Harzer Roller " now which is a popular cheese in Germany and among the few things that would make me throw up. :-( Does that exist elsewhere?
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Post by JoeP on Apr 13, 2016 9:27:53 GMT
I hadn't heard of it before. The first search result was for Harz Roller ... a kind of canary ... I don't think you meant that. The cheese looks normal enough, it would depend on the taste.
You should definitely not look up Casu Marzu, which is a Sicilian cheese with live things in it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2016 12:57:51 GMT
Eww. Cheese with live things in it sounds revolting.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Apr 18, 2016 11:07:15 GMT
Yeah, that is one cheese I'm not keen to try.
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Post by Moose on Apr 20, 2016 1:09:19 GMT
Is that the one with maggots in it? I'd give it a try. As far as I know they take the maggots out before it's eaten though. It's supposed to mature the flavour or something.
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Post by raspberrybullets on May 1, 2016 0:31:28 GMT
If they take the maggots out maybe I'd try it. I thought they kept them in. But you'd want to be sure they had got them all out.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2016 10:46:22 GMT
If they keep the maggots in, do you have to eat those with the cheese?
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Post by Moose on May 2, 2016 20:54:46 GMT
I am fairly sure that they do take them out (but hey, if they left the odd one it would just be extra protein right? ).
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2016 21:56:21 GMT
I think I'm a bit fussy about how I have my protein.
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Post by Moose on May 3, 2016 22:44:54 GMT
how do you prefer it?
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Post by JoeP on May 4, 2016 10:04:01 GMT
Not wriggling.
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