Cheese house

Imagine the most adorably decorated gingerbread house, but with all savory ingredients. That’s it! A charcuterie chalet is like a savory cheese board house, all dressed up for the winter holiday! Pretzel windows, salami-tiled roof top, and all of it dusted with parmesan cheese, it’s so darn cute. Who wouldn’t love this?!

The holidays are filled with snowmen, cookies and, of course, gingerbread houses. At The Kitchen, we like to do things a little differently, so this year we're making a savory version of this holiday classic--it's The Kitchen's Cheese and Cracker House.

Brandy-washed epoisses, balsamic vinegar-bathed pecorinos, and some 100 other cheeses ripen beneath Bleecker Street in Murray’s five cheese caves. Each season brings new house-made inventions, like the C Local, a sheep’s milk blend washed with Brooklyn Brewery’s Local 2. Murray’s two-hour “Mystery of the Caves” classes (various weeknights, see website for schedule; $75) let visitors tour the cellars, study affinage, and taste select cave-aged specimens. Short ventures underground are also…

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Beautiful illustrations of various French cheeses as featured in Cook's Illustrated magazine/March & April 2007 issue. Here's to give you a little idea of what they are... Bleu des Basques Brebis - is an artisan sheep’s milk blue cheese made in the Pyrenées mountains, a region of the French Basque country (near the border of Portugal.) These verdant hills here are full of the wildflowers and fresh grass that give the milk its complexity, subtlety, and lightness. Crottin de Champcol - This is…

“Are we in Val d’Orcia or Crete Senesi?” I asked. “Nether” Fabio replied. “Instead we are located in an area between the two.” A place without a name but of one that dubbed “the bermuda triangle paradise” within Tuscany’s most suggestive landscapes. And paradise it was. Imagine an ancient stone farmhouse nestled in a plot of well-curated […]

The tradition of making gingerbread houses started in the 1800's. Seems like a little bit of an outdated tradition doesn't it? I think 2020 is the perfect

If you’ve never been to Eastern Europe, you might not be familiar with the Slavic squat, but we’ll be happy to educate you today, pandas. Because Slavic countries have not only gifted the world with delicious borscht, gorgeous pottery and impressive wood carving, they’ve also provided us with plenty of entertainment online!