Jester2000
04-04-2009, 00:28
. . .but my PCT hike made me fall in love with cheese all over again. At the Canadian border I actually got down on one knee and proposed to cheese.
Some of my thoughts on cheese, compiled from previous threads:
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Originally Posted by Jester2000
CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE!!!!!!!!!!!
I loves me some cheese. Largest block you can carry out of town without causing stress fractures, say I.
Bigger lasts longer! Harder is better!
Cheese does not go bad!
Melty/Oily? Recombines at night!
Moldy oldy? Cut that part off and keep chomping!
One Pound blocks! Eaten like candy bars!
Bonus feature: no poopin' 'til the next time you hit town. . .
Cheese, baby! Sounds gouda to me!
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Originally Posted by Jester2000
I have yet to meet a cheese I haven't liked immediately, struck up a long, meaningful conversation with, and developed a deep, abiding relationship with.
Cow, goat, sheep, cat, out of a can, on a nacho, with my breakfast, between my toes, on pasta, on stuffing, on Donner, on Blitzen!
With cheese!
Con queso!
Avec frommage!
Ag tigh cais!
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Originally Posted by Jester2000
The only reason to cut cheese with a knife is if you're sharing it with someone, which is what I was thinking of in my post regarding what one needs a knife for. Unless you want to do a whole Lady and the Tramp thing, but with a big block of Sharp Vermont Cheddar. My god that's romantic.
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Originally Posted by Jester2000
See, this is excellent advice, and I see where he's going with it, so I'll continue the thought. You're going to want to bring a lot of cheese with you. I mean A LOT. Studies have shown that while lack of sunlight will eventually drive you insane, lack of cheese will make you incredibly unhappy, to the point that you will drive everyone else insane.
But you've gotta get on a schedule. Say you're going out for a week. You want seven days worth of cheese, but not the SAME cheese. You want at least seven different kinds of cheese, and you want to eat them in ascending order of hardness.
So maybe you bring a huge thing of crumbly feta with you for a salad topping on day 1, with maybe some goat cheese for lunch. Then you move on to your mozzarella ball on day two. A really big mozzarella ball, and you eat the whole thing by itself, like you're eating a snowball.
You get the point, so I won't belabor it. You end up on the last couple of days with some sharp Vermont cheddar and then a block of parm. I do recommend also carrying a can of grated parm to put on top of every other meal you eat.
The cheese will last, as long as you eat it in the right order! You'll hike like you have wings! You'll stay toasty warm at night! You won't poop the whole time you're out there!
Good luck, and enjoy the cheese!
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Originally Posted by Jester2000
Combine cheese with everything. Anything. I can't stress it enough. CHEESE.
And don't just limit yourself to "flavoring food" with it. Flavor everything with it. Flavor your joys and sorrows with it. Flavor your Flav with it. Flavor your life with it!
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Originally Posted by Jester2000
I live in a world of cheese, all of it there for the taking. Cheese hanging from the trees, cheese raining from the sky. A world where cheese is an accepted form of currency, an appetizer, a meal, a way of life, an acceptable thing to wear to a formal occasion. Where you can love cheese as you wish, and it doesn't accuse you of being codependent.
A world of possibilities, all of them shot through with cheese.
Quote:Originally Posted by Jester2000
I have done my hajj to Vermont. I have bowed before an alter of delicious sharp cheddar, and then eaten it. I didn't have to go to the bathroom for four days.
Award winning?
Soul winning!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jester2000
I have been to the monument to cheese along the AT in Cheshire! I have leaned against it, filled with thoughts of cheese! I have gone to the post office across the street, taken a picture, and been drawn magnetically back to "the Big Cheese Monument." Intending to stay in town for a moment, I stayed for what felt a lifetime.
Then I went to the convenience store on the way out of town, and bought some cheese.
What's your favorite cheese? Any good recipes? Any good stories?
Some of my thoughts on cheese, compiled from previous threads:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jester2000
CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE!!!!!!!!!!!
I loves me some cheese. Largest block you can carry out of town without causing stress fractures, say I.
Bigger lasts longer! Harder is better!
Cheese does not go bad!
Melty/Oily? Recombines at night!
Moldy oldy? Cut that part off and keep chomping!
One Pound blocks! Eaten like candy bars!
Bonus feature: no poopin' 'til the next time you hit town. . .
Cheese, baby! Sounds gouda to me!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jester2000
I have yet to meet a cheese I haven't liked immediately, struck up a long, meaningful conversation with, and developed a deep, abiding relationship with.
Cow, goat, sheep, cat, out of a can, on a nacho, with my breakfast, between my toes, on pasta, on stuffing, on Donner, on Blitzen!
With cheese!
Con queso!
Avec frommage!
Ag tigh cais!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jester2000
The only reason to cut cheese with a knife is if you're sharing it with someone, which is what I was thinking of in my post regarding what one needs a knife for. Unless you want to do a whole Lady and the Tramp thing, but with a big block of Sharp Vermont Cheddar. My god that's romantic.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jester2000
See, this is excellent advice, and I see where he's going with it, so I'll continue the thought. You're going to want to bring a lot of cheese with you. I mean A LOT. Studies have shown that while lack of sunlight will eventually drive you insane, lack of cheese will make you incredibly unhappy, to the point that you will drive everyone else insane.
But you've gotta get on a schedule. Say you're going out for a week. You want seven days worth of cheese, but not the SAME cheese. You want at least seven different kinds of cheese, and you want to eat them in ascending order of hardness.
So maybe you bring a huge thing of crumbly feta with you for a salad topping on day 1, with maybe some goat cheese for lunch. Then you move on to your mozzarella ball on day two. A really big mozzarella ball, and you eat the whole thing by itself, like you're eating a snowball.
You get the point, so I won't belabor it. You end up on the last couple of days with some sharp Vermont cheddar and then a block of parm. I do recommend also carrying a can of grated parm to put on top of every other meal you eat.
The cheese will last, as long as you eat it in the right order! You'll hike like you have wings! You'll stay toasty warm at night! You won't poop the whole time you're out there!
Good luck, and enjoy the cheese!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jester2000
Combine cheese with everything. Anything. I can't stress it enough. CHEESE.
And don't just limit yourself to "flavoring food" with it. Flavor everything with it. Flavor your joys and sorrows with it. Flavor your Flav with it. Flavor your life with it!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jester2000
I live in a world of cheese, all of it there for the taking. Cheese hanging from the trees, cheese raining from the sky. A world where cheese is an accepted form of currency, an appetizer, a meal, a way of life, an acceptable thing to wear to a formal occasion. Where you can love cheese as you wish, and it doesn't accuse you of being codependent.
A world of possibilities, all of them shot through with cheese.
Quote:Originally Posted by Jester2000
I have done my hajj to Vermont. I have bowed before an alter of delicious sharp cheddar, and then eaten it. I didn't have to go to the bathroom for four days.
Award winning?
Soul winning!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jester2000
I have been to the monument to cheese along the AT in Cheshire! I have leaned against it, filled with thoughts of cheese! I have gone to the post office across the street, taken a picture, and been drawn magnetically back to "the Big Cheese Monument." Intending to stay in town for a moment, I stayed for what felt a lifetime.
Then I went to the convenience store on the way out of town, and bought some cheese.
What's your favorite cheese? Any good recipes? Any good stories?