Blue Cheese

[j_halo7]

For lunch today, I made baked sweet potatoes with leeks and blue cheese, recipe courtesy of Hui Ling (duckholme). She had suggested the recipe after looking at my 101 list. In my list, one of the task is to eat blue cheese and another is to cook or bake 5 items with sweet potatoes so this recipe would let me kill 2 birds with 1 stone.

I've not eaten a lot of

Comments

[duckholme]

Looks good ^_^ heheh practice makes perfect. Try smoked cheese next it's quite good.

[j_halo7]

Thanks. :) It's easy enough so I'm more than willing to try it again. ^^

[solipsisticrian]

In the few times I've come across blue cheese lately, my thoughts turn to Yamapi and how he failed versus Aragaki Yui at Kuwazugirai. Wanna try ricotta, or cottage cheese? :)

[j_halo7]

Oh yeah, Yamapi and blue cheese. XD I'll have to taste a strong blue cheese for myself to see if it's that bad. :P

I'll be using ricotta next in an eggplant gratin! Is it edible on its own? I'll taste it by itself if it is edible as it is. As for cottage cheese, how can I use it? Eat with bread or bake or cook with it? Any suggestions on how to use cottage cheese?

my suggestion for cottage cheese

[atommickbrane]

Throw it in the bin - blerrghhhhh!

Re: my suggestion for cottage cheese

[j_halo7]

Hahaha! Is cottage cheese really that bad? Now I must taste it for myself. :P

CHEESE

[atommickbrane]

Danish blue is a bit bland I think - I prefer a nice Stilton, or Roquefort, or Gorgonzola. None of those will blow your head off but they will be far more rounded and tasty. I don't think I'd serve them with sweet potatoes, that seems a quite unusual mix for a blue cheese. Blue cheese is sometimes crumbled up with roast vegetables in salad quite nicely.... a Danish Blue would go well melted into a pasta sauce with some cream and some wilted spinach and lots of black pepper! It's rich, but good when it's cold and dark (ok, it may not be cold and dark where YOU are :)).

I am afraid I can't bring myself to think of Edam as 'gourmet' :)

What about a good cheddar? Lancashire cheddar is a personal favourite, but I am from Lancashire so I guess I *have* to think that.

Or there's the soft cheeses, a brie or a camembert... ooh OR grilled halloumi! Or sag paneer curry!

What cheese can you easily get, is probably an easier question to ask!

Re: CHEESE

[j_halo7]

I have no idea if Edam would be counted as gourmet since I'm new so anything besides Kraft cheese would be gourmet to me. :P

Thanks for all your suggestions! I'll look at what's available in the supermarket and try those first. I generally love dairy products so I'm excited to try cheese.

Is it possible for you to type up a recipe for the pasta sauce with cream for the blue cheese? I still have leftover Danish blue cheese but I err have never made pasta sauce from scratch before so I have no idea how to go about incorporating the cheese into pasta sauce. Just a simple one without specific measurements would be fine with me.

Re: CHEESE

[atommickbrane]

Someone's already typed it up, how lucky! The recipes are americanised but you can convert easily enough. I cut down on the cream quite a lot. All you really do is melt the cheese - there's no complicated stages for this at all.

Re: CHEESE

[j_halo7]

Thanks!