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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Kasseri Cheese
A great cheese I tried today is Kasseri. It's made from unpasteurized sheep's milk and some goats milk may be added. The milk needs to be unpasteurized to develop it's distinctive rich flavour. It really packs a punch on flavour with real depth. Great on it's own with bread no meat needed I felt.
It looks very much like your regular cheeses from Woolies creamy gold in colour. It taste nothing like those bland cheeses. It becomes a little Oilly as the temperature rises but remains solid when grilled or fried.
Great cheese definitly worth a try.
It looks very much like your regular cheeses from Woolies creamy gold in colour. It taste nothing like those bland cheeses. It becomes a little Oilly as the temperature rises but remains solid when grilled or fried.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Deli Food Melbourne
My family have recently moved from Cairns North Queensland to Melbourne. The first thing that struck me as I walked down the main street of Carnegie where we live is the amount of different styles of food.
It took me over a month before walking into the deli in Carnegie. The variety of food on sale was like nothing I had experienced before. Cheeses, breads, deserts. I had no idea what nationality the people that run it were but I set about trying some of this food. It turns out that the owners are Greek. They were very welcoming and ready to share their knowledge of this food with me, not quite what I'm used to coming from Cairns North Queensland.
The first cheese I tried was KEFALOGRAVIERA Just 100grams about 3 slices. This cheese was fantastic packed with flavour my mouth waters now just describing it to you. Turns out it is a traditional Greek hard cheese, manufactured from Ewe's milk. Incidentally a ewe is a fully matured female sheep.
It was just great to have with bread and ham for lunch.
The other thing we tried was Halva. It looked like a big cake rippled with chocolate and studded with almonds.It was beautiful.It has a nutty sweet flavour that compliment each other 100% add to that chocolate and almonds and you have the perfect sweet. I purchased the smallest amount about 200grams which was cut off the cake with a knife and wrapped. Hava is made with sesame seed and honey as the main ingredient and all sorts of nuts added. This variety I also saw at the Victorian markets.It's made throughout the middle east, Macedonia and Greece.
Prepackaged halva is also available in chocolate, vanilla and peanum flavours.
I really can't believe I've lived 43 years in Australia and never seen or heard of this before. Melbourne should claim this version as their own and send every tourist home happy with a box.
I've seen tourists carry home boxes of chocolate macadamia nuts, macadamia nuts covered with cheap chocolate very unsatisfying.
It took me over a month before walking into the deli in Carnegie. The variety of food on sale was like nothing I had experienced before. Cheeses, breads, deserts. I had no idea what nationality the people that run it were but I set about trying some of this food. It turns out that the owners are Greek. They were very welcoming and ready to share their knowledge of this food with me, not quite what I'm used to coming from Cairns North Queensland.
The first cheese I tried was KEFALOGRAVIERA Just 100grams about 3 slices. This cheese was fantastic packed with flavour my mouth waters now just describing it to you. Turns out it is a traditional Greek hard cheese, manufactured from Ewe's milk. Incidentally a ewe is a fully matured female sheep.
It was just great to have with bread and ham for lunch.
The other thing we tried was Halva. It looked like a big cake rippled with chocolate and studded with almonds.It was beautiful.It has a nutty sweet flavour that compliment each other 100% add to that chocolate and almonds and you have the perfect sweet. I purchased the smallest amount about 200grams which was cut off the cake with a knife and wrapped. Hava is made with sesame seed and honey as the main ingredient and all sorts of nuts added. This variety I also saw at the Victorian markets.It's made throughout the middle east, Macedonia and Greece.
I've seen tourists carry home boxes of chocolate macadamia nuts, macadamia nuts covered with cheap chocolate very unsatisfying.
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