They Already Decided Not To Trust You (Reblog)

Evil Cheeses (Chow)

I love cheese. Every kind of cheese, from the pungent aged Asiago I added to a vanilla-butter sauce for the lobster ravioli we had last night to the homely Kraft American slice (which melt well in scrambled eggs).

Or so I thought.

Here are some cheeses I will never seek to eat.

• Maggot cheese. You are apparently advised to wear protective eyewear while eating these cheese lest the cheese fly larvae injure you by jumping into your eye...although frankly that sounds preferable to undigested larvae boring holes in your intestine.
• Mimolette, a French cheese intentionally infested with cheese mites to gain flavor from their excrement, dander, and corpses. There are actually lots of variations of these mite cheeses across Europe, such as the German Spinnenkäse.

Mm. To take that taste out of my mouth, here are some recent things I've done with acceptable cheese...
Above is the vanilla-butter sauce with Asiago we had last night, topped with lobster ravioli and some fresh sage. It was fun cooking with a real vanilla bean, which I've never done before. The Baltic Red 4 year Asiago was the last bit from our cheese party.
This is a nice ricotta sauce we had just before NDM's trip to Rome.
Some fried buffalo mozzarella slices NDM prepared for me to use in a gnocchi dish a while ago.

Finally, with the last of the Shropshire blue from our cheese extravaganza I made a cauliflower and cheese soup similar to one I've made before but much, much more pungent.

Google Reader Now Useful (Reblog)

Well, the original rationalization for this blog (it's under the title right above) has been killed but dead by the Google folks. Google Reader now allows sharing items with an annotation.

Denning (Pets)

The days I really need a foot-muffler are coming to an end, but throughout winter and early spring Líle's denning behavior has kept my feet nice and toasty. By next winter, who knows if she'll still fit under there?

Boob Kitties

Check it out! This blog currently has the eighth hit on Google for the search "boob kitties", with Molten Chocolate Boob Cake. JTC was prescient in his comment.

And, um, no. There was no reason I was searching for "boob kitties". In fact, it wasn't even me. It was probably Scylla, who thinks Molpe is a bit of a boob. (It's the first definition!)