Beijing Cheese
At the local supermarket in Beijing there is only one type of cheese that we like. It is called “Beijing Cheese”.
It seems that people don’t eat that much cheese in Beijing, or in all of China for that matter. Cheese is pretty much served only in Western restaurants and fast-food places.
Beijing Cheese is delicious, though. It tastes like white cheddar blended with a few other cheeses. It is bold enough for our tastes, but not too strong.
We add a few slices of it to our bowls of pasta, and we use it in grilled cheese sandwiches. It tastes wonderful melted.
The creamy white color of Beijing Cheese is beautiful. Life in Beijing isn’t bad at all when you have Beijing Cheese!
Macaroni and Cheese with Cottage Cheese
Yesterday, Sloan and I made a box of macaroni and cheese into a bowl of macaroni of cheese. It was no ordinary macaroni and cheese, though, so don’t stop reading.
Sloan had bought a lot of cottage cheese, without realizing that his roommate had also bought a lot of cottage cheese. Determined to use it up, and knowing that a single box of macaroni alone would not be enough to fill our stomachs, he suggested that we add it to the macaroni and cheese.
He also found a bag of romano cheese in the refrigerator. We decided to add some of that too, for good luck and good taste.
I agreed to his experiments happily but suggested that we use the ‘white cheddar’ variety of mac & cheese rather than the ‘real aged wisconsin cheddar’ variety. I feared that the cottage cheese would seem too white in an orange bowl of macaroni.
The macaroni and cheese turned out to be very nice. It was very creamy and cheesy. We ate it happily, with two forks and a single bowl.
Cheese Loves Me
I was at the grocery store the other day, in the cheese section, of course. Remember how I bought a wedge of brie? That was the day.
As I was leaning over the cheese display, I noticed that some of the cheeses were jumping! I had no idea why, but I thought it was cute, so I didn’t report it.
A wedge of Coeur de Lion Le Brie jumped high enough to brush my cheek with a kiss. What a nice cheese! I just had to buy it, because it loved me. And so I bought it.
Coeur de Lion Le Brie
I haven’t been buying cheeses lately. But today I gave in and bought a beautiful wedge of Coeur de Lion Le Brie.
It was on sale for $7.99/lb (normally it costs $8.99/lb). The wedge I bought was $5.57.
I was considering buying a piece of Havarti instead, because it melts so nicely. I was looking at the prices - $4.49 for a little block of Havarti, versus $5.57 for a superwedge of Brie. The superwedge was clearly the winner, for its largeness.
It was packed on April 18, 2005, and its “sell by” date is May 2, 2005. That leaves me over 12 days to eat it. I think it won’t be a problem at all.