From the monthly archives:

May 2009

Chef EJ Harvey is the owner of the SeaGrille Restaurant in Nantucket “where ALL the locals go for great fish and excellent seafood”. At the Nantucket Wine Festival EJ made a cooking demonstration on Sunday featuring our Bijou. http://www.theseagrille.com/

Spring Spinach, Strawberry and Bijou Salad

with poppy seed dressing

Ingredients:
Baby Spinach – 1 pkg.
Red onion – 1/2 thinly sliced
Bijou – 4 oz (2 cheeses)
In a large bowl, mix all the salad ingredients together.

Poppy Seed Dressing:

Red wine vinegar 8 fl oz
Mustard (optional) 2tsp
Minced shallots 1 Tbsp
Olive oil 24 fl oz
Salt as needed
Maple Syrup 2 tsp
Flat lead parsley 3 Tbsp

Method:
1 Combine vinegar, mustard, shallots, salt, pepper, and maple syrup. Gradually whisk in oil.
2 Stir in the herbs, and adjust the seasoning with salt, pepper and maple syrup if necessary.
3 Pour dressing over the salad ingredients. Toss and serve immediately.

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What a great event the 13th Annual Nantucket Wine Festival was. The cheese tasting seminar was a success — Valfino/Bonne Bouche and Cave Man Blue took the top honors from the crowd.

To see more pictures of the event check out our photos on flickr
www.flickr.com/photos/vermontcheese

Thursday night’s Opening Galla, was the kick-off of this weekend’s event. Karen made some wonderful cookies and was out of sweet goodness within 2 hours, so here is the recipe for the most famous cookies of the event:

Vermont Butter Pecan Icebox Cookies

Ingredients:
8 ounces Vermont Cultured Butter, Lightly Salted

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See you in Nantucket!

May 13, 2009

This weekend is the Nantucket Wine Festival and we have been invited to teach a seminar on cheese and wine. After multiple brainstorming sessions on the subject / angle / title of the seminar we came up with the idea to talk about Terroir and look at Europe’s old world cheese and US’s new world [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day

May 9, 2009

To all Mother, here is our gift idea from the creamery: Fresh buttery Scones & Flowers. Make sure to use our Vermont Cultured Butter lightly salted to make the perfect tasty scones. Chocolate and peanuts or Blueberry lemon zest. Joyeuses Fetes! For more pictures from our test kitchen, check our album on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/vermontcheese

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Vermont Cheesemakers Festival

May 5, 2009

Save the date!!!!!!

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