With today’s Cheesy Christmas choice, Picodon, LaBoxFromage treated us to something that we hadn’t had to date… a cheese made from goat’s milk.
Timo was looking forward to tasting his first goat cheese as, generally speaking, that’s his favourite. In this case however, using the word ‘treated’ is being generous… so much so that Timo would’t let it pass his lips…
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Today’s cheese tasting began with a slight dilemma … trying to distinguish between the stickers for cheeses ‘6’ and ‘9’, which, trust me… looked exactly the same.
It’s for this reason that you won’t see a still-wrapped photo of today’s cheese. In the end, there was only one way to find out for sure….
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I’ve been wanting to do a post that bends just a little closer to what traditional posts had been like, prior to the Life in Lockdown posts, and different from the Cheesy Christmas posts.
So… indulge me if you will as I just talk a bit, generally speaking:
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If ever there was a wintry cheese… today’s Cheesy Christmas sample would definitely be it.
Again, we were already somewhat familiar with today’s cheese as it’s not the first time it’s graced our pallet. Typically, anytime we’ve had it, it’s been in a well-known dish from the Alps… ‘tartiflette‘, combining potatoes, onions, lardons (small, cooked pieces of ham or bacon) and of course… Reblochon.
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OK folks, it’s Cheesy day 4, and things just got serious… we cut into our first blue cheese.
Well, I say ‘we’, but Timo didn’t even go there…
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Today was a dim, damp, and cold day typical of Winter days in France. The perfect weather for growing moss. I teasingly refer to this season as ‘moss-growing season’ because by February, it will be all over gates, concrete entrances and any garden furniture that didn’t get put inside.
It was also Day 3 of a Cheesy Christmas….
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It’s Day 35 of lockdown … and Day 2 of a Cheesy Christmas.
Today’s cheese is one that we’ve purchased before at the local grocery store, so it wasn’t as much of a discovery as yesterday’s Coeur de Pomm.
I’ll tell you about it, but let me also relay a few cheese-tasting tips from the booklet that accompanied our cheeses…
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If you know my wife, you’ll know that…
She. Loves. Cheese.
So this year, I got her a gift that she’ll get to enjoy for the 24 days leading up to Christmas, (unlike most gifts that you only really enjoy after the big day) … an advent calendar of French cheeses. Today was cheese #1…
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Inspiration for today’s Travel Tuesday post came from a rather unlikely spot… it was a trip we took last year to the aerospace capital of France and also the nearest city with an Italian consular presence.
It was the trip we took to Toulouse to renew (and in my case apply for) our Italian passports….
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Since it’s lockdown and there are four of us at home this week, we all spent a large part of today in our personal sound bubbles.
Ever heard that term before?
I heard it for the first time in a TEDTalk by Julian Treasure, entitled: 5 Ways to Listen Better (If you’ve got 7.5 minutes, I recommend it). He says that we retreat into personal sound bubbles when we insert headphones, to take refuge from an overly noisy world.
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