Ibby foodblogs

[Sundae]

No bashing from me.
1) my diet is currently appalling
2) I love seeing other people's food

I like goats cheese in small amounts - have to buy it from the deli counter rather than have half of it go in the bin. I'd find it too much in a bagel (a bit claggy) but am thinking of getting a tiny bit for Mum's blinis on Tuesday. She only wants smoked salmon & cream cheese, but it won't hurt to have some non-fishy ones. They're out of luck if they don't like cheese though

[Ibby]

Originally Posted by Sundae

2) I love seeing other people's food

I like goats cheese in small amounts ... Mum's blinis on Tuesday.... She only wants smoked salmon & cream cheese... They're out of luck if they don't like cheese though

my tumblr followers have been previously warned, through my use of the "#erika is obsessed with cheese" hashtag, that I take my cheese really seriously. I buy about a brick a week of Cabot 24-month Vintage Super Sharp Reserve Cheddar. Literally part of the reason I moved to Vermont is for GOOD CHEESE. so, I eat chèvre with water crackers, with a mild cheese to balance it on a bagel, on sourdough bread, yeah - but if you look how complicated my pizza cheeses are, you understand why I spend like half my monthly food budget on cheese. Good cheese make any shitty half-assed college meal taste like heaven.



ALSO: I would be super-interested in getting any other dwellars to give a one-week look at their diet - not for the same reason as me (to shame me into eating better) - but to figure out what different folks in different lifestyles do for their food. sort of an informal social poll. Start your own thread and maintain it for a week if you're willing - disclose anything from your favorite food of the week to everything you consume, there's no pressure. My rules for MY thread are, I post every MEAL and SNACK and one bottle/can of each DIFFERENT beer I drink each day for a week. Your rule can be whatever you want to say. I know that my diet is pretty stereotypical for the 21-year-old new-england liberal-arts pinko queer college student. But I bet Brits have no IDEA what "21-year-old new-england liberal-arts pinko queer college students" eat day-to-day - any more than I have any CLUE what british people my age eat (LOL FISH AND CHIPS AND CURRY RITE?!), let alone what other age brackets eat in different parts of the UK or the US.

If you want to set up anonymous accounts with your geographic region, i'm sure the mods would be happy not trying to "out" you. But I'm super curious who else wants to start a foodblog week. I think it will not only stimulate those of us doing so to think about what we eat, but I think it will help every Dwellar understand a little more about how other age groups, geographic groups, national groups, etc live their day-to-day lives.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Ibby

...Literally part of the reason I moved to Vermont is for GOOD CHEESE.

My family has been buying cheese from Crowley since my Mother was seven years old... she'll be 93 in December. We'd get a 33 lb wheel of cheddar and a 5 lb wheel of sage cheddar, then cut it up for the kin folk. The wheels dropped to 20 lbs in the mid 50s.

Then the government got all pissy about making cheese in the barn with wooden equipment, (flys are protein, man) so they shut down for a year or so then bought all stainless equipment and moved to a dedicated building down the road.

Their cheese was always wonderful and would sharpen up nicely in 4 or 5 months. Unfortunately the last catalog I got showed no wheels at all, only those damn bricks... you know, 8 or 10 oz with color coded wax. I suppose for the tourist trade and mail order it's a good move, but I don't think it tastes the same. But if you're out grooving on the leaves, and going near Healdville, you might stop and see if the store has wheels they'll cut you a piece of.

Oh, Mike Rowe made cheese with them on Dirty Jobs, too.