Individuality is what makes each one of us special and unique; having choices to match every taste is what we hope for, and fortunately you will have more choices than you can imagine in the types of cheese available. There are hundreds of types of cheese available from all over the world, and if you are a cheese lover you will delight in the huge variety of tastes and textures that are available to tempt your palate and tantalize your taste buds.

Some Famous Types of Cheese

Cheese is made from milk that derives from different types of animals including cows, sheep and goats. While the milk is the base of the product, the method in which it is prepared and aged is what makes each type get its unique taste and individuality. For example, the wine cheese is fermented, aged and processed in various shapes and caskets with different flavors in order to create a unique and special type of cheese.

Some famous types of cheeses include Brie, mozzarella, cheddar, Provencal, Swiss, camembert, parmesan, mascarpone, blue cheese, gorgonzola, Roquefort, Stilton and Gouda, but this long list is far from exhaustive. Each type of cheese is dedicated to a particular type of use; for example, Mascarpone is used for making sweets like tiramisu and parmesan is primarily used for pasta dishes.

Making the Most of your Cheese

In order to make the most of the types of cheese available, you may need to taste and learn a bit about them and place them in categories of sharp, moderate and medium. Most types of cheese can be used to accompany wine as well as a platter of crackers and fruits. Cheese also makes a great gift when added to a basket that contains a bottle of wine, crackers and some fresh grapes or apples.

Most supermarkets stock a large variety of cheeses in the dairy case for you choose from, but you may also want to visit the delicatessen section where you can find the finer types of cheese for special occasions and sheer enjoyment.

Helpful Tip

To learn more about the types of cheese available around the world, you can search online or refer to specialized books on this subject that will provide you with plenty of information. You may also want to research how to pair cheese correctly with food dishes or wines in order to make use of its full flavors. Cheese can also be made at home, and those techniques can also be found online or in books, depending on the type of milk you want to use. 

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One of the best tasting breakfast recipes for the fall months is sweet potato biscuits. We also love to serve
them at parties; making a mini version, cut with a cutter about a inch diameter and putting country ham on them.
If you were from where we’re from, you would be putting Smithfield country ham on them, truly one of the best, is not
the best hams in the world. Regardless, we hope you will try these sweet potato biscuits.

Sweet Potato Biscuit Recipe

2 cups sweet potato - cooked and mashed

4 cups self-rising flour

1 stick butter - melted

1/2 tea baking soda

1/2 tea baking powder

1 1/4 cups buttermilk

3 Tablespoons sugar

Mix sweet potatoes, butter and milk until well blended. Stir in flour, baking
soda and sugar. Shape into a ball and knead 8-10 times on well floured board.
Roll out 3/4-1 inch thick and cut with 2″ biscuit cutter. Bake on a greased baking pan in a preheated
400 degree oven 15-20 minutes until very lightly browned. Fill with some good Smithfield ham and you are good to go!

Makes about 15.

Note: I like to roughly mash the sweet potatoes instead of smoothly to get little flecks of sweet potato that you can
see in the finished biscuits.

If you need a fast and easy secret for low fat cheese biscuits, get low fat bisquick and a low fat cheddar cheese.
Hide the box. It isn’t as good as fresh but few people will guess your secret.

Almost everyone that likes biscuits loves cheese biscuits. For a great biscuit recipe: visit our recipe-of-the-week
Cheese Biscuit Recipe

Enjoy it and be sure to let us know what you think. We love to hear from people.

Peggy Bloodworth left a job as a sales VP in a high tech company entertaining clients around the world for a personal chef and catering business
where she is chef for swank party givers in Research Triangle Park, NC. More party ideas, recipes, menus and pictures can be
found on her website swank website. She maintains a large garden and vineyard. Menus are well
researched, recipes are mostly original and the ingredients are fresh, organic and more frequently than not, from her garden.

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You can make soup from about anything. If you’re not in a hurry you start from scratch using meat to make a broth and then adding vegetables and what ever else that suits your fancy, but you will have to wait for your soup. That’s how we kids use to make it over a bonfire in our back yard when I was a kid.

You can make soup using fresh meat, chicken or beef broth from a can, and adding canned vegetables. You can cream your soup by adding creamed soups. This is much faster.

But the fastest way is the way I made Quick Frozen Veggie Chicken Cheese Soup today.

I was hungry having spent the morning in Twin Falls and skipping breakfast.

Usually when we go to Twin we have lunch there, but I went early because my dentist had an opening. After the dentist visit I went to JC Penny to pick up some shirts I ordered from their catalog and then went to the local “we-don’t-take-credit-cards” store to buy cake mix so that I can bake that cake every Sunday morning for my thirteen Idaho grandkids.

The “we-don’t-take-credit-cards store” is WinCo Foods. They don’t take credit or debit cards because they would have to raise their prices. I go to the bank to get cash before I go there because I seldom write checks.

A young mother with two babes told me where to find what I needed so I got out of there eventually.

My wife looked three years older when I got back to the pickup.

I was gone too long, but she didn’t complain.

She said that she should have gone into the store with me.

I guess if she had gone with me, we would have gotten out of there for about $150 instead of the $62 I spent. Each of us has his/her own idea about what should go into the cart.

By the time I got the stuff to make cakes, it was still too early to go to lunch, so I went home.

Of course, when I got home it was time for lunch. I messed around on the computer for a couple of hours and all of a sudden I had to get out into the kitchen and make something quick.

I didn’t want to starve to death.

I had been thinking about a new soup. My two small freezers are crammed full of stuff we aren’t using fast enough and I have little enough room for pizzas and ice-cream sandwiches.

The main problem is frozen vegetables. We keep forgetting that we bough them “last time.”

Well, I made the soup and my wife said it was good so I’m going to give you the recipe right now before you go somewhere else.

Recipe

Canned chicken or beef or what have you got in that can?

Frozen farm vegetables

Frozen cauliflower

Canned whole mushrooms or what have you

Grated cheese

2 cans of cream of something soup (mushroom, broccoli, celery, etc.)

1 can of chicken noodle soup

1 can of chicken broth

paprika if you can stand it

meat and poultry seasoning

salt

pepper

Procedure

Get the chicken broth a boilin’.

Add the meat.

Add the frozen vegetables and cauliflower (yes, I know it too is a vegetable).

The vegetables well cook quickly. Add the canned creamed and chicken noodle soups and mushrooms.

Stir until it looks nice. Add the cheese. Stir again.

Don’t forget to season it with the paprika, salt, pepper, meat and chicken seasoning, or what have you.

Serving

Did you make a salad?

Oh, well.

Got any juice to drink?

Well, water is okay.

Want toast or biscuits?

Fresh out!

Okay, let’s eat!

John T. Jones, Ph.D. (tjbooks@hotmail.com, a retired VP of R&D for Lenox China, is author of detective & western novels, nonfiction (business, scientific, engineering, humor), poetry, etc. Former editor of Ceramic Industry Magazine. He is Executive Representative of IWS sellers of Tyler Hicks wealth-success books and kits. He also sells TopFlight flagpoles. He calls himself “Taylor Jones, the hack writer.”

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