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Trekkie|1413456490|3767842 said:Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese!!!!!!!!!
OMG, I am obsessed with the stuff! My tastes are quite tame (plebeian?) compared to most of yours, but I love, love, love good cheese!
When I lived in Greece I gained 5kg (12lbs) aaaaaaall because of cheese! My ex is Greek so we ate Greek style every day. His friend/cousin/whatever produced some of the BEST feta I have had in my life! I also had a lot of really good halloumi, kefalotyri and metsovone to name a few... I must be honest, Greek cheese tastes best in Greece and I haven't been able to find anything nearly as good locally.
I LOVE Stilton but detest brie and camembert. I'm told they're acquired tastes so who knows maybe one day I'll turn into a grownup.
Out here we mostly buy mature cheddar and gouda (boring ). DH can't stand blue cheese - he usually makes me eat it out in the garden and makes me brush my teeth the moment I enter the house. His idea of "daring" is to buy Boerenkaas - a South African version of Gouda .
Should any of you ever end up in South Africa, I would strongly encourage you to do a cheese and wine tour through the Cape Winelands. Essentially you just drive from Cape Town towards the mountains, stopping off at wine farms as you go. You pay around $2 and are given three or four quarter/half filled glasses, and move on to the next farm to repeat the process. Some wine farms provide pairings - for instance, a sample of their $50 port with an imported chocolate truffle or they offer cheese samples to show which wine goes best with which cheese.
We did it in February this year with my sister and her partner who visited from the UK. They loved it, but by the third wine farm they were swimming! My DH was at school with many of these wine farmers, so wherever we went we had extras and bottles thrust upon us! Eventually we stopped off somewhere (can't even remember where) and had something to eat so they could soak up the alcohol.
The scenery is amazing, the wines are cheap and the cheese is good!
Taken at Simonsig
Taken at Muratie. This is without a doubt one of the weirdest places I have ever been, but has a beautiful story. The wine farm was founded by a German soldier who was given a land grant by the then governor of the Cape Colony. He fell in love with a slave woman, and would trek three days by foot from Stellenbosch to Cape Town so he could see her. Their love affair was illegal so had to be kept a secret. After 14 years together she was finally baptised, and therefore no longer a slave, and he was able to fetch her and their three children and take them home.
And a gratuitous winelands shot :
Trekkie, that sounds A M A Z I N G!!!