Food & simple pleasure Saturdays 09 Jun 2007 06:00 am
Saturday Simple pleasure….
White Stilton Cheese with Apricots.
And it’s certainly awesome with mango in it as well.
Classified a “dessert” cheese, this stuff is heavenly nectar. Smooth, creamy, with a gentle tang (not scary like normal Stilton). My eyes automatically close and I sigh involuntarily when this stuff hits my tongue. It’s sublime.
I don’t get it on Saturdays. In fact, I don’t get it at all since our TMM, insane gas prices, and the sudden weed-like growth of our children. It went on the back burner along with wine and organic chocolate. But not too long ago a friend brought some to a pot-luck; I tell you it took total restraint to not steal the entire thing and hide under the table cloth or lock myself in with it in an unused office! It was a blessing that most of the potluck partakers were a little afraid of it and so didn’t touch it. Think I’m exaggerating?? Give it a shot. Go on, I dare ya. Buy some and just TRY to eat it unaffected. It’s the kind of cheese that will make you marvel at creation and the wealth of goodies the earth gives to us. It’s the kind of cheese that will inspire you to abandon all plastic and cardboard food offerings.
It will blow. your. mind. And it’s just….so…simple. 
on 09 Jun 2007 at 9:19 am 1.Queenofthehill said …
That has to be good. I actually like the “scary Stilton”!
on 09 Jun 2007 at 11:47 am 2.Sarah said …
Where do you get it? Sounds so yummy!
on 09 Jun 2007 at 3:11 pm 3.Kyra said …
If only I had known the monster I’d let loose.
You can buy it at Food City up in the front usually by their deli department with their better cheeses.
I don’t know if Tia has found her own supplier. Perhaps a guy on the street, she drives up in the middle of the night in an unmarked car, cash in hand, baseball cap on head, nondescript clothes…mumbles under her breath, “Yeah, bag of the Stilton with Apricots..25 grams.”
And some grimey guy pulls a block out from under a raincoat along with a cheese slicer, chops off a slab, wraps it in freezer paper, while smoking a doober and pockets the cash. Then there is that knowing look and nod that says that says you won’t betray your supplier.
Somehow this is just the vision that popped into my brain.