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Freeze This Cheese

September 24, 2024 janet@janetfletcher.com
Blue cheese grated on salad

People often ask me whether they can freeze cheese. “Sure,” I reply. “But it won’t be the same when it thaws.” Putting cheese in the freezer is almost never a good idea—it alters the texture—although I can think of a couple of exceptions. If you like to stockpile Parmigiano Reggiano rinds for making broth or enhancing a pot of beans, by all means keep your collection in the freezer (although the rinds will also be fine in the fridge). But with the onset of autumn, I’m reminded of a little trick with frozen cheese that I learned from celebrity chef Michael Chiarello.

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Tags freezing cheese, Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese, Point Reyes Original Blue, Michael Chiarello, radicchio, fall salads, autumn salads
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Cheese O’Clock Returns!

October 23, 2023 janet@janetfletcher.com
Jane Fletcher & Laura Werlin

Gather your cheese-loving friends and family and join my cheese pal Laura Werlin and me for the return of Cheese O’Clock, our popular Zoom-based tasting series. Laura and I reuniting on Thursday, November 30, for one night only, with two delightful guests, some favorite cheeses…and bubbles!

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Tags Cheese O’Clock, World Central Kitchen, Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese, Domaine Carneros
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Oozy Does It

October 25, 2022 janet@janetfletcher.com

With November around the corner, we’re entering the ooey-gooey season. Fall is prime time for those unctuous, bark-wrapped cheeses that spread like buttercream frosting, and this year we have a new one to celebrate. It took more than three years to get this beauty through R&D. Turns out the style presents all sorts of hurdles.

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In From: U.S., Milk: Cow Tags Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese, California cheese, American cheese, bark-wrapped cheese, spruce bark, Quinta, bloomy-rind cheese
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Top-Value Cheeses for Tight Times

May 24, 2022 janet@janetfletcher.com
Cheese board with great-value cheeses

Left to right: Piave Vecchio, Taleggio, La Dama Sagrada, Point Reyes Toma, Bleu d’Auvergne

Seems like everything’s going up but the stock market. My neighborhood bakery just hiked the price of my favorite loaf by 33 percent. Ouch. That’s serious inflation. Cheese is hardly immune, and the stresses in the grain market guarantee more sticker shock to come. We cheese lovers just have to shop smarter. The values are out there. I’ve rounded up a few well-priced favorites for these inflationary times. There aren’t many cheeses that make me think “Is that all?” when I see what I’ve spent, but these dozen do.

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In Milk: Cow, Milk: Goat, Milk: Sheep Tags inflation, cheese prices, Trader Joe’s, feta, Beecher’s Flagship, Bleu d’Auvergne, Fourme d’Ambert, Bleu 1924, Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese, Point Reyes Original Blue, Caña de Cabra, Caña de Oveja, La Dama Sagrada, Matos St. George, Piave, Red Witch, Roth Grand Cru, Taleggio, Vella Dry Jack, Vella Mezzo Secco
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Cheese for the Win

June 11, 2020 janet@janetfletcher.com
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Everyone I talk to seems at loose ends right now. What’s the right thing to think, say, feel, do when your country is experiencing an emotional earthquake? Cheese seems trivial, perhaps, but to dairy farmers and cheesemakers it is not. It’s a livelihood. It’s the future for their land, their livestock, their families.

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In From: U.S. Tags Victory Cheese, World Central Kitchen, igourmet, Beehive Cheese, Jasper Hill Farm, FireFly Farm, Tulip Tree Creamery, Haystack Mountain Cheese, Valley Ford Cheese, Spring Brook Farm, Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese, Central Coast Creamery, Vella Cheese Company, Shepherd’s Way Farms, LaClare Family Farm, Shooting Star Creamery, Milton Creamery, Goat Lady Dairy, Sweet Grass Dairy, Capriole Goat Cheese, Meadow Creek Dairy, 5 Spoke Creamery, Cascadia Creamery, Marieke Gouda, Grafton Village, Face Rock Creamery, Pennyroyal Farm, Maytag Blue, Nicasio Valley Cheese
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