Cheese

I know that I often can’t resist writing about old favorites. I also tell the same jokes and stories over and over again. I like wonderful, old, familiar things. But today is a new day and Dancing Cow Menuet is a new cheese for me. Menuet is made from raw cow’s milk, un-cooled, from only a single milking, and it’s aged at least five months in the Cellars at Jasper Hill. Menuet reminds me a bit of an English cheddar; it’s got that hearty earthy quality, but it’s not as crumbly or sharp.

Look what their website says:

Our family farm is a pasture-based dairy with seasonal milk production and cows outside. We use no pesticides, herbicides or petroleum based fertilizers on our fields. We make hay from our own fields, milk our own cows and spread their manure as rich, dark compost. The cows graze on sweet clover, dandelion, trefoil and a variety of grasses from May thru December. During the grazing season the cows spend their days and nights outside, on pasture, and occasionally take a break on hot and humid summers days in the cool shade of the barn.

I bet all their cows are named after favorite children’s books. Personally, if I had a cow, hell yeah I’d name it The Great Glass Elevator.

…Maybe this is why no matter how many times I demand a cow for my birthday, nobody gives me one….