Roquefort is Innocent!

[amateur51]

Any chance of getting some Roquefort on Ebay....??....I'm about to look....
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...I8eFhQeYuIDgAw I think I'm going to have to venture out to the cheese shop....

No Roquefort on Ebay....but various Roquefort themed pottery....inc a very nice Roquefort Xmas tree decoration....for the person who wishes to homage fromage no doubt....

Putting Roquefort into Amaaazon gives....Valdeon Picos De Europa blue cheese

https://www.frenchclick.co.uk/p-3644...0-mg-125g.aspx

They sell a quarter of a whole cheese too

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

is there a French recipe [or at least a Robert carrier one] with melting Roquefort dripping over a filet mignon? ah google me so there is.... i am off to the shops fro me lunch ...

[MrGongGong]

So what sort of cheese is best for hiding a horse ?


(apologies if i've asked before )

[jean]

Looking at the British Cheese website I'm surprised to find Edam and Gouda up among the worst offenders for salt content...

I'm surprised to find them there at all!

[Anna]

On the salt table on that website, what's interesting is that Philadephia is at the bottom of the list, after cottage cheese, at 288mgs BUT the medium fat Philadelphia is 344mgs and the low fat 438mgs. So, people choose the low fat for health reasons but get over half as much more salt!!
Top offenders after Roquefort and Feta are processed cheese slices, followed by Danish Blue then Edam, Gouda, Blue Stilton, Parmesan, Cheddar.

[french frank]

So what sort of cheese is best for hiding a horse ?

Brie?

[vinteuil]

So what sort of cheese is best for hiding a horse ?

... well, it should certainly be done caerphilly

[MrGongGong]

... well, it should certainly be done caerphilly

mascarpone


I'll get my coat .............

[handsomefortune]

i have no idea why posh cheeses are getting such attention, when it's obviously cheaply made, over processed foods that are riddled with revolting and unhealthy substitutes.

So, people choose the low fat for health reasons but get over half as much more salt!!

anna! we've all learnt to totally freak out at the word 'fat' seemingly, meanwhile forgetting salt and sugar?

perhaps others heard r4 news earlier in the week, and a piece about 'man boobs'? r4 invited a plastic surgeon to effectively promote the various psychological threats arising for men with this physical shape. i noticed that minimal exposure was given to common sense about salt/sug in processed food and the importance of physical exercise, just a brief soundbite from a rather gruff member of the public was deemed to suffice by r4!! though perhaps honesty, a sense of perspective is no longer considered an important part of the equation? the razzamatazz of plastic surgery might follow an over dose of roquefort as the new, better, brighter, 'healthy'?

good luck with your nhs health check up btw french frank, we should probably all book an appointment whilst the nhs is still there! the thought of health insurance playing a part in factual info for victims...i mean patients, is enough to bring on similar symptoms to a triple overdose of roquefort eaten every day, all day, all year round!! (though a fat chance of anyone being able to afford that, or bupa... eh)! evidently, cheese experts aren't always worth their salt....that'd one of my 'diet messages' if i was ever invited to r4 news studios.... maybe i'd supply an additive warning that practically anyone can 'do' plastic surgery, it's just a question of lying convincingly combined with a real knack for making others feel very insecure about themselves....rather than unhealthy professionals!

[clive heath]

As this is the nearest thing to a Cheese Thread,
at Giddings, the Wine shop belonging to Wadworths in Devizes, for some cheese from their deli. Two new ones to us;
Vignotte "Vignotte is a high (75%) milk-fat ("Triple cream") cow's milk French cheese in a powdery white, bloomy skin of mold.It tastes like an intense version of Brie. Extra heavy cream is added to the cheese during manufacture. A traditional wheel of Vignotte is smaller and shaped higher than the familiar flat wheel of Brie.
Vignotte is so fatty it can make a white wine taste sour and metallic. Any cracker used should be utterly bland.
It is a table cheese and is suitable for grilling too." quoted from "French Delicatessen"

Snowdonia Matured Cheddar, excellent. On their site they call it "Little Black Bomber" and it does indeed arrive wrapped in a black plastic-ish covering.

It turns out that the Wadworths beer "Corvus" encountered recently in a Pub of the same name ("The Raven", in Poulshot) is a Guiness look-and-taste-alike. I suppose the clue is in the name!

[Simon]

Roquefort? A treat?

I had some once - well, it got into my mouth for a few seconds before I spat the foul, rancid stuff out.

Someone had used it in a quiche instead of the normal, decent, nicely flavoursome mature cheddar that I was expecting to be there.

I like many cheeses, including the wonderful parmigiano as mentioned above and including many strong ones - but not the ones that taste as if you've got a mouthful of battery acid.

That said, can anything from across the channel be better than a farm-made, organic, traditional Wensleydale, with Cox's apples and celery, wholemeal spelt breadrolls and a pint of something good in the real ale line?

[Nick Armstrong]

Roquefort? A treat?

I had some once - well, it got into my mouth for a few seonds before I spat the foul, rancid stuff out.

Someone had used it in a quiche instead of the normal, decent, nicely flavoursome mature cheddar that I was expecting to be there.

I like many cheeses, including the wonderful parmigiano as mentioned above and including many strong ones - but not the ones that taste as if you've got a mouthful of battery acid.

That said, can anything from across the channel be better than a farm-made, organic, traditional Wensleydale, with Cox's apples and celery, wholemeal spelt breadrolls and a pint of something good in the real ale line?

[Beef Oven]

Mr GG told me about a special edition Cracker Barrel that's due out next month. He knows his cheese, so it's gonna be good. Watch out for it. I think it's Canadian, I might be wrong.

[Simon]

Brie?

Cor, ff. Very good!

[teamsaint]

Mr GG told me about a special edition Cracker Barrel that's due out next month. He knows his cheese, so it's gonna be good. Watch out for it. I think it's Canadian, I might be wrong.

I heard about that, I think Robbie Coltrane is the new "face of Cracker Barrell".