Murray's Mimolette. I took this photo for the color, not the rind. Would you call this cheddar color if it were fabric for a quilt?
Comte 18 Month. . . .
Humboldt Fog Pepper Remix. Does the rind make you think of nougat? Or frosting?
Murray Aged Mancheg. Almost a basket weave!
Murray's Caveman Blue. A net?
Murray's Dansk . . . . A different kind of net.
Rosemary and Olive
Some kind of Blue Cheese....
Unknown.... Another basket weave.
Wensleydale with Cranberries. I love that dark maroon coating. Is it wax?
Comtesse Brugge Gouda. What a beautiful decorative doily on the cover of this cheese.
And chocolate! This is the bottom of a Ferrero Rondnoir dark chocolate. Lovely texture! Almost quilt-like.
Now I'm off to quilt. I hope you're having a good weekend.
--Nancy.
I love this post! You have such an eye for detail. Where were these fabulous cheeses? Did you try any of them? I do love cheese like these, I guess it is inherited. My ancestors were brought to America from Switzerland to be cheese makers for Kraft, late 1800s.
ReplyDeleteI would def call that first cheese color ''cheddar''!
Thank you, Lizzy. Digital cameras foster my love of details. Being able to take a clear photo, then enlarge it--wow! These photos weren't enlarged and cropped. They are just as I took them.
DeleteThese cheeses were at a Kroger store (a grocery store in every community in our area) in their specialty foods section. This particular store had a larger than usual selection of cheeses. They had one wheel that had been cut into quarters. It was almost 20# and cost over $400.00. Specialty cheeses for sure!
That's interesting that your family came from Switzerland to work for Kraft. It's great you know that history.
Mmm...cheese! Did you know there is chocolate cheese? I didn't much care for it, but the dairy farm at Michigan State has (had? pre-pandemic) a store where they sell (sold?!) ice cream and cheeses made from their dairy. Chocolate cheese was a "specialty."
ReplyDeleteNo, I didn't know that there is a chocolate cheese, Katie. As much as I love pure chocolate, I'm not sure if I'd like chocolate cheese or not. I never like cheese when I was a child, except Velveeta, but I've grown to enjoy some cheeses as an adult.
DeleteWhile I guess we would call that first one cheddar, it also looks like ripe pumpkin or butternut squash flesh! Any way you look at it, it just says "fall" and wonderful aromas wafting from a warm country kitchen.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't thought of it, Pat, but, for sure, that cheese looks like pumpkin or squash and just in time for fall. If it weren't so warm here I would have already made pumpkin pie by now.
DeleteI enjoy shopping Whole Foods cheese section--so many varieties and so much to take in
ReplyDeleteThe same for me, Samplings. I always enjoy their displays of cheese and I especially like their box of $5.00 or under small pieces. Just enough to try a cheese and decide whether we like it. Or, enough to stave off hunger until we get home.
DeleteThose ARE all interesting textures! If that first one were fabric, yes, I'd call it cheddar - the Civil War cheddar for sure.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Susan. When I get to a fabric store and think about cheddar fabric, I'm always not quite sure. I should take a block of cheese--or this photo--and compare.
DeleteI don't think I have ever looked so closely at cheese casings. Fascinating stuff.
ReplyDeleteYes, I would call that cheddar if it was a fabric color!
Thank you, and LOL. I'm not much of a fan of browsing at the grocery store but my daughter likes to look around. When I go with her, I have to occupy myself somehow. I'm not sure I've ever looked so closely at cheese casings before, either, Janet.
DeleteI suppose cheddar fabric has a slight range, just as the color of cheddar cheese has, but if I ever intend to buy cheddar fabric, I should probably take a cheese sample.
The color of that first cheese is so intensely orange. I love it! Cheddar is in the eye of the beholder and we all see things differently. I've seen two quilts lately that orange, not cheddar, is used as the background color instead of something soft and neutral. It's intriguing to me because I think it's such an unusual choice. One of them is at the end of Bonnie Hunter's post today. The other was a Double Wedding Ring quilt. Seeing them is making head spin with ideas. Seeing all those wonderful varieties of cheese makes me hungry. We're big cheese eaters over here.
ReplyDeleteYou're so right, Robin, that everyone sees color differently. My husband will occasionally comment about some orange color when we're driving somewhere, but I see red. I'm not a big fan of most oranges. I think orange is an unusual choice for backgrounds in quilts. I do like the orange in the one on Bonnie Hunter's post, though. It leans just slightly, almost toward red (as opposed to yellow).
Deletemy family loves word games for humor. That is why I had to buy some Oregonzola cheese when we visited Medford, OR this summer. It is their version of gorgonzola. I had to share some of this deliciousness with my siblings later when I visited with them. And it is delicious! It is a variation of a blue cheese with interesting things in it. Love your various cheeses you took pictures of. That is quite the collection of cheeses at that particular store.
ReplyDeleteThanks, QuiltGranma. Oregonzola is a fun twist on garbanzo. So glad you like the Oregonzola cheese.
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