Posted on 12/18/2007 11:51:25 AM PST by HungarianGypsy
Inspired by a conversation with my best friend I wish to talk about cheese. Yummy, yummy cheese (for those of us not lactose intolerant)! What are your favorite cheeses? What is your favorite recipe with cheese. This thread is all cheese, all the time.
I am the master of my own feta.
I just got an English cranberry-infused cheese at Sam’s (Crandell? Crandale? Westdale? Something like that) that is simply scrumptious!
Sometimes I order some pasta to put under it.
Mmmmm, yummmm!
Recipe, something the family has always called "ham loaf", but my ex used to call it cheese loaf. He thinks it has too much cheese in it, but from my POV there's no such thing as too much cheese. If I gave this recipe to you before & you haven't tried it yet, I don't wanna hear it.
Ingredients:
a loaf of french bread
about a pound or about 4 cups shredded cheddar (sharp, mild - take your pick)
a small can of chopped black olives. (if anyone in the family doesn't like black olives, don't tell them what the black things in the finished ham loaf are)
mayo or salad dressing (Miracle Whip)
a pound of sliced ham, cheap boiled stuff is fine
To make "filling":
Put shredded cheddar & chopped olives in large bowl & mix. Add mayo. You're looking to make it about the consistency of a stiff cookie dough & since different cheeses have different amounts of moisture, can't give you the exact amount of mayo you'll need to use.
Prepare bread:
Slice partially through the bread, leaving crust on the bottom intact. My bread slices are slightly fatter than commercially sliced bread.
To assemble:
Put about a good heaping teaspoon of cheese mixture between each slice. (the bread will begin to curl as you stuff it, so I usually cut the loaf in half or in thirds)
Stuff about a half a slice of ham in between each of bread slices. Ends of french bread are little, so you may only be able to stuff in a quarter of a slice. You don't have to get all of each of the slices of ham in between the bread. On the ends of the bread that aren't crust, put a full slice of ham over the "stuffing".
Put in a pan or on a cookie sheet. If you don't like messy clean up, but don't mind trying to peel crusty melted cheese off of aluminum foil, you can line your baking pan with foil. One way or the other, cover bread with foil. I remove the foil toward the end of baking.
Bake until cheese is melted & the edges of any ham that's sticking out of the bread is crisp. I've baked with high heat (450) & I've baked with low heat (350)... baking takes between half an hour and an hour.
To serve, pull off as many slices as you can get away with, without anyone who sees you calling you a pig.
Nuking leftovers is okay, but they can also be eaten cold. (been eating this all of my life, long before anyone had microwaves in their homes) Don't nuke instead of baking, cuz you'll end up with soggy bread instead of nice crispy bread.
I used to make this for scout pot lucks & always got phone calls asking me for the recipe. (How else do you think I know what I told you about people who don't like black olives?) If any of my instructions aren't clear, ask me. I was never given a recipe for it, but knew what it looked like before trying to make it myself.
When I was served a plate of fabulous food, in Greece,(late 70’s) I was introduced to feta. Fresh feta.
It was one of the best meals I’ve ever eaten.
I agree that some of the stuff they call feta is bad, but that’s just bad feta.
;-)
I want to be on the record on this one:
I like cheese.
Well ~~ I’ll give you my share until I can get to Greece and get the real thing! LOL!
You don’t have to go to the Olive Garden to get that, you can eat it at home!
Ah!! I LOVED cheese, but whaddaya know, I found out I was lactose intolerant just last month =’( Anyways, I have to say that cheesecake is the best ever, along with the cheese bread stuff you sometimes find as appetizers at Italian restaurants, or asiago cheese on my pasta. Oh, and also mac and cheese, grilled cheese, mozzarella sticks, and pizza. However, due to my often hilarious lack of cooking skills, I have no idea how to begin making any of these.
When I was in kindergarten, in 1950, I went to the afternoon session, following lunch with my Dad. He always came home for lunch and we would pig out on Rye Crisp, kipper snacks, and liederkranz cheese. Yum.
After the first week I came home from school with a note from the teacher: “What DO you feed this child?”
I must have smelled like a delicatessen. Great memory of that.
Deal!
Night, Sis.
*HUG*
My wife is pregnant and has been insisting cheese fondue almost every damn night for the last 2 weeks. But I love the stuff, so it’s not so bad.
The darn goat won’t stand still!!
From Unda Velveeta?
Nobody over 21 should be eating cheese. It affects their brains and makes them old.
It’s excrementally runny!
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