Cheese Log

2023 Cheese Log

Brie de Meaux
Roquefort
Comté
Bleu d’Auvergne
Ossau-Iraty
Saint-Felicien
Morbier
Saint-Marcellin
Fourme d’Ambert
Mimolet
Colummiers
Crottin de Chavignol

Tommes are cheeses from the French Alps Tomme de Savoie
Tomme de Brebis - a tomme with milk from sheep; this has become one of my favorite cheeses (I have about forty-two favorite cheeses, I think).
Tomme des Fleurs - a tomme with tiny wildflowers (fleurs) in the rind.

Chaource
Cantal
Salers
Bleu de Auvergne

2021 Cheese Log

Beaufort
Brie de Meaux
Brie de Columniers
Brie au truffles (brie with a layer of truffle in it - wow!)
Brie de Melun
Bleu de Roncq
Bleu d’Auvergne
Bleu de Laqueuille
Camembert
Port Salut
Chaussee aux moines
Crottin de Chauvignol (A chèvre that comes in little wheels about 2 inches in diameter. It is sold in different ages, from a month or so old to a year old; it gets smaller, drier and more flavorful as it ages.)
St. Nectaire
Mimolette (French version of gouda)
Morbier
Ossau-Iraty
Roquefort
Tommes de Fleurs
Tommes des Deux Lait
Tommes de Brebis
Cantal
Vieux cantal (aged)
Comté
Tomyère
Couer Hedinois (chevre)
Fleur de Fruges
Brebis Basque Nature
Chaource
St. Felicien
Fourme d’Ambert
Chèvre Fermier la Fourrière

More chevres than we can shake a cheese knife at.

And probably a dozen cheeses whose names I didn’t get or don’t remember. There are a lot of cheeses here!

2018 Cheese Log

St. Nectaire
Gabaron (garlic and pepper - best if everyone present has some)
Brebis
Fourme d’Ambert
Bleu d’Auvergne
Bleu de Laqueuille
Roquefort
Cantal Vielle
Brie de Meaux
Brie de Melun
Brie de Nangis
Brie de Montereau
Appenzal aux Fleur
Montagne Bethmale Vache
Morbier
Epoisse
Comté
Beaufort
Guyere
Le Régal de Bourgogne aux raisins
Crottin de Chauvignol

2016 Cheese Log

Through June 20:
Bleu de Laqueuille
Salers
St. Nectaire
Tommes de Brebi
St. Felicien
Mimolette
Crottin de Chavignol
Fourme d’ambert
Brie de Meaux
Comté
…and a few others I didn’t record

2015 Cheese Log

As you might imagine, many will be repeats - particularly the first ones - as we have been waiting two years to taste our favorites again.

A note or two about cheeses here. First, the typical cheese assortment for a meal will have a cured cheese (hard, like cantal or comté), a blue (such as fourme d’ambert or roquefort), a chevre (goat cheese) and a creamy cheese (brie or camembert, for example). We try to have that assortment for every dinner, and because there are many cheeses that fall into each category, we can try different cheeses all the time. Except…we have favorites and we keep returning to them.

Second, although in the U.S. we talk about and serve cheese and crackers, the French never serve cheese with crackers. It’s cheese and bread, period.

With that said, here’s a kind of running log of cheeses we’re having. I know I’ve missed some, because when you’re at someone’s house for dinner and they serve five or six different cheeses, it’s hard to remember them all. I will point out, though, that we haven’t yet found a cheese we don’t like.

5/17 - Not bad for two days here...

Petit Gaugry (a Epoisse-like cheese; the fromagerie did not have Epoisse, but this is made by a cheese-maker who also makes an Epoisse, and it’s very close. And stinky. And delicious.)
Roquefort-Papillon (There are different types of roquefort; this is one of them.)
Comté
Fourme d’Ambert (a blue cheese from the Auvergne region)
Saint-Nectaire
Livarot

6/6 We've added...

Saint-Marcellin - went right to the top of the favorites list
Cantal
Two different roqueforts
Cavignol - six crottins of differing age. The oldest was stinky! And tasty.
Brebis
Brie de Melun
Brie de Meaux
Coulommieres - from the brie region, but not quite a brie

6/16...

Roquefort Verniere
Salers
Tomme de Savoie
(I want to point out that these are the new cheeses we’ve tried. We keep buying the others because we like them. A lot. Generally, we have five or six cheeses floating around here.)

6/19

Abondance
Tomme de Bauges

7/1

Ossau-Iraty (has become my favorite of the cured cheeses)
Pont Leveque
Camembert

Well, I’ve kind of not kept this up day-by-day. Here are a few more recent cheeses:

Bleu de Saint-Augur
Tomme de Montagne

2013 Cheese Log

I’ll try to keep a log of the cheeses we’ve had.
Tomme de Montagne
Tomme de Savoie
Fourme d’Ambert
Fourme de Montbrison
Bleu de Auvergne
Bleu (generic)
Cantal
Comte
Chaumes
Port Salut
Livarot
Saint Nectaire
Pont l’Eveque
Reblochon
Morbier
Muenster
Epoisses
Epoisses a la bas
Columierres
Sousmaintain
Brie (we’re in the middle of brie country)
Brie de Montereau
Brie de Meaux
Brie de Melun
Brie de Nangis
Chevre - several different types, including four types of Chavignol
Charbol
Ossau-Iraty (Basque sheeps’ milk cheese)
Brebís

There have been more; I just can’t remember the ones before I started keeping track.

Favorites:
Hard to say, really, but in no order, we really like:
Brie, especially Brie de Nangis
Fourme d’Ambert. You can get this in varying levels of sharpness; we like it as sharp as possible
Morbier. A soft cheese with a thin layer of ash in the middle.
Cantal. Our favorite of the cured cheeses.