Port Salut and Beyond

My favorite food is cheese.  It can be spreadable, sliceable, or gratable. It comes in so many different flavors and goes great with so many things.  So, for my birthday I decided to have a cheese testing session with my family.

First we had Port Salut.  It is a pale yellowish,white and is a spreadable cheese. I ate it on a baguette. Next we had Camembert.  It is a whiteish color and has a nutty taste.  It is a soft cheese that I had with a baguette and some apricot jam.  Tierno is a soft cheese with an oaky taste.  It has just a touch of sharpness and is white.  I ate this on a pita crisp.  Semicurado is a darkish white and is semi-soft.  It has a salty sharp taste and I ate it with a pita crisp.  Next I had Curado.  It was hard and chunky with an oaky flavor.  It was bone white and I ate it on a whole wheat cracker.  Queso manchego is bone white, semi-hard, and oaky.  I ate this on a whole wheat cracker.  Slightly salty flavored cheese is Manchego.  This is bone white and the texture is like a chunky cream.  I had this with a rustic baguette and quince paste (quince is a fruit, you have to try it.)

I love cheese!  There is always a new kind try and they go on sandwiches, pasta and so many other things!

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A Delicious Winter

So far I have had a delicious winter.  My first treat I made was dark chocolate, white chocolate and peppermint chocolates.  Then me and my mom made orange, pistachio chocolate dipped biscotti, chocolate chunk, peppermint cookies, and glittering lemon sandwich cookies.  We are also making cinnamon rolls and brioche.  On top of that, there is still advent candy to be eaten and Santa is sure to fill my stocking with treats.  My taste buds must be in paradise.

Peppermint Chocolates

Get some silicone cupcake holders and cover bottom thinly with crushed peppermint chips.  Melt white choc0late and add some mint exract to the white chocolate until it is minty enough to your liking.  Then pour white chocolate in the cupcake holders half way. Stick in the fridge until they are set and slightly hard.  While they are in the fridge melt some dark chocolate.  When set, take out white chocolate and pour dark chocolate over.  Stick in fridge again and take out when dark chocolate is slightly hardened.  You are now free to eat!

Chocolate Chunk Peppermint Cookies

Take your favorite chocolate chip recipe and add cocoa powder and crushed peppermint chips!

Happy, But Sad

One of my favorite places to relax, eat a treat and talk with my family is Fruttia. I love their deicious  frozen yogurt and fresh fruit. When you hear frozen yogurt you may be thinking of that stuff at Sweet Tomatoes (that stuff isn’t frozen yogurt, no matter what they say.) No, this frozen yogurt has a tangy, yet sweet taste. And a lucky bonus, fresh fruit, which adds more flavor. I just can’t stop craving the delicious taste of frozen yogurt and to savor the creaminess melting in your mouth.

By now, your mouth must be watering, mine is just by writing this article. Brace yourselves. Fruttia closed down. Luckily, there are thousands of other places left like the Red Mango and Lunaberry. Of course there are other frozen treats too. My personal favorite is gelato, but that is a topic for another day. Farewell Fruttia! Toodloo!