Exotic Cheeses, Every Day All The Time

My favorite kind of day is one that includes many different kinds of cheeses. Luckily, Kate and I are of a similar mind on this front!

We started the day at Absinthe in Hayes Valley - lovely lovely lovely as always!

Kate the villainess

Faced with an entire menu of beautiful brunch goodness, we decide on cocktails and cheese with a side of Peach Brown Sugar pancakes. Of course. Because that's how we roll.

Abbaye de Belloc cheese with white-wine apricot preserves

 We also had a tasty Hudson Valley domestic Camembert with apple slices and toasted walnuts, AND (my favorite of the three) a magnificent Cana de Oveja from Lorenzo Abellan’s Farm, Murcia, Spain with fig compote.

Of course, not ones to do anything halfway, we made the pilgrimage to Cowgirl Creamery in Point Reyes in search of more cheeses - stinky, bloomy, delicious, the lot of it. (Also, what is this place? I want to go to there.)

And we came away with some LOOT:

• Garrotxa Spanish Goat Milk Cheese
• Casatica di Bufula (water buffalo milk cheese, amazing with Food Should Taste Good multigrain chips)
• Fiore Sardo (sheep's milk hard cheese, fantastic with Cowgirl Creamery membrillo)
• Cypress Grove Humboldt Fog (of course)
• Cowgirl Creamery Wagon Wheel

What an amazingly fabulous and cheese-filled day. Separate post coming about what we made for dinner...

Love! D