Capra Serenade

It could be said that I love cheese but this next cheese loves you back - how can you resist the delightful heart-shaped Serenade from Capra Cheese?


Cheese Maker: Capra
Cheese Name: Serenade
Location: 125 Tices Road, Mt Lookout


This has a double layer of ash - one surrounding the heart and the other straight through the center.


All cheese made by Capra uses organic goats' milk from their own free-range herd.


Much like their Velvet this has that same creamy, clean taste with the ash giving it another dimension. The flavour is quite distinct, I know my sister likened it to a blue cheese but I put it more towards a bitey vintage cheddar.

This cheese is now available at The Cheese Shop Deli at Prahran Market as well as the other places listed in my earlier post.

Originally published here

Hunter Valley Grape Vine Ashed Brie

The race that stops a nation has finally been run and won and hearty congratulations go to Viewed and its trainer Bart Cummings.

While the horses were racing we were happily nibbling on this:

Maker: Hunter Valley Cheese Company
Type: Grape Vine Ashed Brie
Location: Cnr Broke and McDonalds Road, Pokolbin, NSW
Web: Hunter Valley Cheese Company

When you see the words "grape vine ashed" you usually expect to see the ash on the outside. Since this is a Brie, the cheese is ashed and then left for the white mould to develop over it.



Having left this out of the fridge for a few hours and serving it close to its best before date, I've been well rewarded with this wonderful runny texture. There's a rich creamy flavour but the rind is surprising mild and very enjoyable to eat.



You could well be excused for treating it like a cheese fondue.

Originally published here