Cheeses for Christmas, what's your favourite?

I would start with buying local so for me that would be White Stilton and Red Leicester. Then our usual, Double Gloucester and a brie. There is no need to buy French because Cricket St Thomas or similar is lovely. I would buy a couple more maybe a Wensleydale, or similar crumbly cheese. DH would want a blue cheese so that would be a Shropshire Blue or maybe more Stilton.

I will try to get some quince jelly and will serve with rich fruit cake. I've made an extra small Christmas cake to go with the cheese.

Port Salut. And posh goats cheese from Neal's Yard 🙂

We had a large piece of Montgomery's last year RosiesMaw2 and another is arriving for this Christmas too. One of my sons friends works for the Montgomery family.
So that's the Cheddar sorted, then some Brie and St Agur (for my OH) plus whatever my son picks up on his travels.

I will try to get some quince jelly
I've made it years ago, delicious and sharp but when I bought a pot it was disappointingly sweet.

Can you recommend one, please, Mamardoit?

I managed to get quince and pear and I'm sure it came from M&S. I've not found any other recently.

I've never made my own.

Mamardoit

I managed to get quince and pear and I'm sure it came from M&S. I've not found any other recently.

I've never made my own.

I've never made my own.
Don't even go there! 😁

I love cheese, when I was a child my Dad used to have Gorgonzola and I thought it was disgusting but now I like it. I particularly like a nice crumbly Lancashire cheese with cream crackers.

I made some quince jelly a few years ago Allira three jars of beautifully clear slightly tart jelly; what an out and out faff it was, took me ages!,

A nice crunchy mature cheddar, crumbly Lancashire, or haloumi fried until crunchy like bacon and eaten on a soft white roll with salad.

Just hard cheeses, no soft ones liked here.A mild cheddar, double Glos, Edam, Wensleydale with apricots and smoked cheddar.

Black bomber cheddar, Wensleydale with cranberries or apricots, a brie, Tintern chives ( from Wales) Edam, Emmental, . We love cheese in our house

It's so good to see that most of us Grans go for British cheeses.
I love a good Cheddar, Wensleydale and Stilton.
But I must admit that Chaource, now widely available, is a great soft cheese.
I do try to shop patriotically for all food.

Jaxjacky

I made some quince jelly a few years ago Allira three jars of beautifully clear slightly tart jelly; what an out and out faff it was, took me ages!,

I made the mistake of starting to make it when I needed to be somewhere in the afternoon. The quinces were from MIL's garden.

That must have been 45 years ago, never made any since.

I love all cheeses , but my favourite is a white crumbly Cheshire .

Sago

Oh one of my favourite subjects!

Sadly one of my favourite ever cheese Richard 111 Wensleydale is no longer made so I will start with a Kit Calvert Wensleydale, Snowdonia Black Bomber, Tunworth, Singletons Lancashire, strong Cornish Cheddar, Orkney Smoked Cheddar, Blacksticks Blue and finally just one French cheese Epoisses or if not available Delice de Bourgogne.

I could go on!

I love Fortnums chutney and usually get some in my Xmas stocking otherwise any nice dark chutney will do.

Carr’s biscuits always and some quality grapes, little sticks of celery or British pears in season.

I would purchase all the cheese from the Courtyard Dairy at Settle, they arrive in beautiful condition, even better if you live close enough to call in you can sample all their wonderful cheeses!

My DP got snowdonia black bomber for

Cheese for me has the moorish factor of chocolate, the latter is rarely in the house, but we are never without cheese. For Christmas I like my favourite cheeses which include, Stilton, Brie, Cambozola Manchego and Comte. Any of those would do. We always have a strong Cheddar in the fridge, generally some Brie and Double Gloucester, I've developed a taste for DG of late, and a hard Italian cheese, such as Pecorino for grating on pasta dishes. My granddaugher only likes her gluten free pasta with just grated cheese of that nature, nothing else, so always have both of those in the house ready for her visits.

Yarg!

Goats cheese Wensleydale with cranberries and baked camembert

Great to read other people's favourites. Just been won over by Northampton Blue and Northumberland Darling Blue (not expensive). Also like Parlick Fell sheep's cheese.

Wensleydale and cranberry all the eay!😋

escaped that looks like a really lovely mix and seems like good value too. If we had a Waitrose near us and didn't have a cheese order on the way I'd be tempted to go for that pack.

Sago Our order from the Courtyard Dairy arrives next week.

We found out about them because DD2 had been there a few times as she used to pass it on her way back from Cumbria in her last job.

I can't remember all that's arriving as we share it with DD2 so it's largish order but I know we have some Baron Bigod and a couple of blues plus some hard cheese.

We had a day out at the Courtyard Dairy in the summer and it was really lovely. We had to buy some nice wine from the shop in the complex to go with the cheese we'd bought :-)

As for chutney, DD1 makes some good one, this year we have Crab Apple Butter a Courgette Chutney and I think an Onion Jam from her in our Christmas stocking so looking forward to the cheese and bits.

So that bit of Christmas is sorted, not a lot else is sorted but cheese, chutneys and biscuits are organised.

It has to be Stilton but I also love Wensleydale, Cheshire and Cheddar. They make great cheeses in the UK now. No need to go French for something special. Whatever cheeses you choose I hope that you all have a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

A nice simple extra mature Cheddar or a decent Cheshire is enough for me.

Tasty Lancashire. Isle of mull unpasteurised cheddar. Manche go. Compte. And a quality artisan wensleydale. I like morris ons melba thins and water biscuits with mine, plus butter of course!

Always water biscuits for me too but I like Lancashire with Nairns Super seeded oatcakes. They seem to bring out the flavour somehow.