Artisan What?
Sep 12, 2008 general food, restaurants
If you love cheese (and I totally do) you know what Cowgirl Creamery is. You would also know it’s a bitch to get any in St. Louis unless you feel like ponying up some serious dough by paying as much to ship the wedges of perfection as you did for the wedges. I, personally, do not. Maybe I could afford it, but I can get plenty of rocking cheese locally without going to all that effort and I’m kind of lazy.
And so I was elated a few weeks ago to see that amongst Niche’s vastly expanded cheese selection was a Cowgirl Creamery cheese. Oddly, it was cottage cheese. I, at least, had never seen an artisan cottage cheese until that moment. I had to have it. I love cottage cheese. In fact, love really doesn’t scratch the surface of my enjoyment of the stuff. When I shop for it, I pick the containers up and shake them like others manhandle ripe fruit to see which one is freshest. Somewhere in that dairy cooler I know there is one specimen filled with so much milk-juice–and it’s invariably the sourest.
As for Cowgirl’s, sad to say, it did not treat this cheese-head right. With a tight curd it was incredibly dry and it lacked the sourness I long for. I suppose that might make it the perfect entryway for the cottage cheese haters amongst you.
Tags: cottage cheese, cowgirl creamery, Niche
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September 12th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
We sampled 3 kinds of cheese last weekend. The Maytag, the Goat, and something else. All were very good. Came with a tasty compote, some flavored nuts, crostinis and apple slices.
September 12th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
The Wine Merch has Mt. Tam on hand but has just recently sold out….should be getting another shipment in soon.
September 15th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
I heart cottage cheese too!