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About cheeses - what are your favourites? How do you like to eat them?

Marianne72

I love cheese, soft or hard, except for gorgonzola! I am puzzled why mozzarella is used for pizza as it doesn't taste of anything [unless anyone can recommend a particular make?]. My favourite is vintage cheddar on toast with Branston small chunk pickle, or a simple flavouring like tumeric or vinegar. Also, a ploughmans with a large baked potato, home-made coleslaw [chopped radish, grated carrot & onion with Heinz Seriously Good mayo], crusty bread and a glass of lager. 

  • I disliked all strongly smelling cheese until my 20s (and tomatoes, ham and anything with fat.)

    Doux de Montagne is my favourite.

  • For me it’s normally a strong Cheddar or occasionally a Stilton, I like to make up my own ploughman’s with my favourite chutney, I normally blender the chutney so there is no chunks. Mild Cheddar is futile and should be banned, it’s similar to plastic. Camembert warmed and melted in the oven and then eaten with breadsticks is quite nice.

  • I like a variety of cheeses. Seeing mention of mozzarella took me back to childhood when for a treat we had the packs of triangular portions of soft cheese and that's when I first came across gruyère. I have since enjoyed the actual cheese. I like blue cheeses too.

    When I was young if we went out for a meal I often had cheese board, so I could try different cheeses. I sometimes buy edam for a change, but as it's now mainly me who eats cheese I tend to stick to cheddar. I do wish at Christmas they did more variety of small portions. 

    I enjoy eating cheese with apple and used to like cheese and pineapple on sticks when at a party, never sausages.

  • Ossau Iraty with rosemary crackers, grapes and quince jelly. 

  • I dislike cheddar or any description and use red leicester for cooking. For eating I love all sorts: crowdie, soft goat's cheese, soft blue cheese, wensleydale, cheshire - oh, too many to mention! When I lived on the border of Herefordshire and south Wales, we had a wonderful cheesewright near us (Charles Martell) and our local deli sold his Stinking Bishop. Later, it became famous through Wallace & Grommit (so I was told) and he appeared on the BBC's farming programme, where he was asked whether he'd make more now it was famous? He said he couldn't as his factory was small. He was asked if he'd put his prices up, in that case and he said no, he wouldn't. He'd continue to stock the places he always had and, if there was anything left over, it could go to the new customers. Heart