Cheeses for Christmas, what's your favourite?

Being French and my husband Spanish, we are grand fans of international cheeses.

We do a 7 cheese variety and each one is different ..

1 French soft cheese, usually a Brie ..

1 Italian aged cow cheese such as Pecorino Romano or Pecorino del Emilia Romana. Or a fresh cheese such as Buratta from Puglia or Napoli Mozzarella di Bufala.

1 Spanish goat cheese with a Paprika rind from the La Vera Extremadura Autonomous Community or Galician Don Simon de La Costa Smoked cow cheese.

1 Aged Sheep cheese - usually Manchego from Albacete, Castilla La Mancha.

1 French semi tender such as Comté .. from the Savoie Region.

1 British Blue Stilton ..

1 Spanish Asturian Blue Picon with blue berries ..

They are served on a board with freshly baked Baguettes from the bakery warm temperature and fruits such as apples, blue berries, black berries and pithaya or mango are served on a separate board to accompany .. with cards indicating which cheese is which and a brief description and country affiliation.

We are grand fans of most cheeses except orange cheeses.

I love that soft cheese with tiny pineapple pieces, rolled in chopped nuts. Plain oatcakes seem to go best with it, as they don't mask the flavour with salt.

Oh that sounds delicious!
I'd love try it.

Shinamae

I’m simple soul..St Agur and a vintage cheddar…

Personally, I don’t have any chutney or pickles with my cheese. Just have it with a French stick.
I think pickles and chutney are so strong they detract from the flavour of the cheese..

Cambazola (can’t spell it)

I like the English blue Stilton and Brie. Also some of the Tasmanian cheeses are lovely, Mersey valley for one.

My favourite cheeses for Christmas are: White Stilton, Blue Stilton and Wensleydale with Cranberries.

Usedtobeblonde

If it were still available I would have added Lymeswold to my selection.
It was made for a very short time and then disappeared.
It was a good cheese.

I used to enjoy that too.
I am having a baked Camembert for my solo Christmas lunch, and also bought some Cambozola blue brie which I started on for lunch today! Luckily I anticipated being tempted so have another piece.

NonGrannyMoll

I love that soft cheese with tiny pineapple pieces, rolled in chopped nuts. Plain oatcakes seem to go best with it, as they don't mask the flavour with salt.

Caboc.

I once asked the cheesemonger in Oxford Covered Market if he had it. He hadn't. I don't think he had even heard of it, but he got me some!

Oh wait! Caboc doesn't have pineapple pieces. but it is a soft cheese rolled in oatmeal.

Baked Camembert is always a favourite with me, especially baked inside a walnut and apricot ring loaf.

I might have just decided what's for Christmas dinner.

I prefer British cheese at Christmas, in fact all the time, and we have so many delicious choices.
Cote Hill blue
Beauvale
Somerset Brie
Welsh goats cheese, and of course Stinking Bishop, and so many more.
The local cheese shop will do me nicely. Yum.

Plain cheshire cheese for me. It is what my dear dad always liked at Christmas.

Canadian Cheddar if I can get it.

I’m very fond of farmhouse Lancashire - Singleton’s for preference - and if I’m treating myself some Caerffili from the Caws Cenarth creamery in Wales. Hartington Blue from the Peak District, a nice cave aged Roquefort and some Cornish Yarg would round my cheeseboard off nicely.

kittylester

I like a good cheddar but it isn't the same with gf bread or biscuits.

I bought DH a cheese advent calendar which he is enjoying.

We are not far from Long Clawson so a Stilton usually figures over Christmas and the remains end up in a sauce with a steak.

DH likes Long Clawson Stilton.

nanna8

I like the English blue Stilton and Brie. Also some of the Tasmanian cheeses are lovely, Mersey valley for one.

Tasmanian cheeses are wonderful, we did a couple of cheese-tastings there, Bruny Island and Richmond I think.

I used to like Caerphilly cheese, whiter and more crumbly than Cheddar, quite tangy, but haven't seen it for a long time - what happened to it? Is it still made?

You can get it from The Welsh Cheese Ciompany, Allira, where else?
I have also seen it sold locally in the West Country but can’t remember where - probably one of our award winning farm shops.

Thank you, 25Avalon, I'll look in local farm shops too.

I’ve even had a Somerset Caerphilly, I think it’s Ducketts. Neals Yard sell it and The Newt Farm shop near Bruton in Somerset.

Somerset Brie for me and a Cheddar truckle too.

I used to love a blue Stilton but have gone off it in recent years sadly.

We have cheese and bread for Boxing Day tea.

25Avalon

I’ve even had a Somerset Caerphilly, I think it’s Ducketts. Neals Yard sell it and The Newt Farm shop near Bruton in Somerset.

Sacrilege!

It's like saying Cheddar doesn't come from Cheddar 😁 when we all know it does!

Love M/S cornish cruncher.
I also discovered in Tesco, Wensleydale with blueberries and white chocolate, that will never make it to Christmas 🎅

This is so interesting. 😋