Um, so I love this cheese which is made by Cypress Grove Chevre in Arcata, California. You should visit their website actually, as they have a great story about the history of the company and how the founder, Mary Keehn, got started in the business of making goat’s cheese. But I digress. I first tried [...]
A hard little cheese this one, and I mean literally. This super bright orange cheese (colored with anatto), is hard, dry, flaky and well up there on the salt scale. It has a strong, pungent salty flavor with a bitter, yet pleasant earthy undertone. While I enjoyed this cheese, I’m not certain it belongs on [...]
If I hadn’t looked at the label, I would have sworn this was a goats milk cheese as I took a bite (the label said cows milk). And in fact, it is goat cheese because during my research, I discovered that Patacabra means “goat’s leg”. This has taught me to not trust every label at the cheesemongers! [...]