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Gorgeous photos @Maggie8K - tell us about the cheese!

You certainly get around - looks fabulous and I am a great fan of cheese.

I love cheese too!
Here are some photos of my explorations today after dropping the dog back home. There are places that dogs can’t visit here. Churches obviously, unless invited for a special service, some hotels and bars aren’t pet friendly either. Hospitals aren’t keen.
Generally cafes, with the Al fresco dimension, allow them though. They’d lose a lot of custom otherwise, I think.
Very popular are churros which is a deep fried batter mix served with sugar and thick chocolate! The Churreria is the place to buy them freshly made.
Sugar rush? More like full throttle!





The cafe had a large selection of cheeses for sale, like so:

I asked the lady how Lithuanians typically eat it and she said they pair it with desserts/baked goods, chocolates and coffee. I had it with tea and a chocolate covered date and some kind of truffle-cookie, as well as apple butter made with Calvados (French brandy). Yum!

Meanwhile, some Swedes and Finns have chunks of cheese in their coffee. Then they eat the coffee-infused cheese.

I like your version best! But basically cheese is always a great food! I mix it with fruits or fruit jam and it usually complements.

Never heard of it so had to look it up. No, Swedish people (nor Finnish, I guess) do not put cheese chunks into their coffee. However, the older generation of the indigenous Sami people living in Lapland used to. This tradition is no longer practiced by younger Samis and has practically died out.

Note: Whether any of us individually heard of X or not doesn’t have any relevance to whether it’s a thing.

This one’s for @Twitcher :two_hearts::raising_hands:t3::türkiye:


#gardendecsrevisited :wink:

Any full ones hanging around? :tumbler_glass:

We need a stand alone food & drink thread.
I love fruit cake with cheese and my grandparents served cheese with apple pie.
Much as I love cheese I don’t think I could bring myself to put it in coffee.

Hmmm. Cheese just might make the fruit cake palatable.

Whereas brandy I find goes safely with everything! Forget the cheese!

I was 11 years in Sourh America and never got offered this combo. I would certainly be up for trying it. Coffee can be somewhat bitter and cheese would give my palate something new to think about. I’d assume it would curdle but I’d hate to think I was missing out all those years! Cheese tasting coffee mornings anyone?

Not for me thank you. I will stick to brandy with my coffee.

We always had plain Christmas cake with cheese when Iived in Yorkshire. Here in Gloucestershire people look at me as if I’m mad when I tell them this!

My aunt and uncle used to run a restaurant in San Francisco that served a lot of old-timers and they offered apple pie with a slice of cheese or a la mode.

I’ve seen the occasional restaurant do that as well.

Personally, if a restaurant offers a cheese plate, I’ll always get that.

Sounds like it’s not Latin America at large:

Anyhow, nowadays some tea and coffee places in many countries offer “cheese foam” as a topping. Probably a similar appeal.

Personally, I have enjoyed cheese foam, but not enough to routinely add it at extra cost.

Speaking of food, I was just in Tallinn, Estonia, and a friend wanted to try a meal from the 15th century, so we did. Some parts were tasty, but I’m glad that food has evolved. :joy:

In another part of Tallinn, I lucked into some tasty dumplings while rushing to make a tour. The nice young woman who took my order recommended them and I was surprised when the dish arrived. It was a topping of bread cooked over a bowl. She sawed the top open and pinned it back with the knife, so I could eat the mini dumplings in a rich mushroom soup. Yum!

Hi @Maggie8K when you visited Dziugas, the cheese shop, did you spot the two mice on the statue of the round of cheese outside the shop? :cheese_wedge::mouse:

Also, we discovered a great Peruvian fusion restaurant called Pachamama in Vilnius, the food was absolutely divine! It is located in a historic building at Gedimino pr. 9, Vilnius. It was the best Peruvian food we have sampled outside of Peru and I definitely recommend a visit if you have time. :slightly_smiling_face: