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Recipes with CheeseA Cheese Lover's Thanksgiving

A Cheese Lover's Thanksgiving

Murray’s Thanksgiving cheese board We love the traditional Thanksgiving meal as much as anyone, but this year, we feel like shaking it up a bit. Maybe it has to do with the way our lives have be...

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Bob's Fromage Caprese

Bob Albers Bob Albers is a retired electronics engineer who has traveled all around the world, and now lives in Mandeville, Louisiana (24 miles north of New Orleans). We interviewed him in 2016,...

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Pub Cheese Variations

A lot of you are do-it-yourselfers who make your own cheese and beer and, well, just about everything else. This is a perfect way to combine your skills. It’s also a perfect way to combine your f...

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Fun with Cheese Crackers!

We try to give you informative articles in this blog but sometimes we just have to share our silly ideas! We thought of this activity for the holidays but realized it would be a good hostess gift...

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Cheesy Cauliflower

This is a good “Keto friendly” recipe for vegetarians – high fat and low carb. It can be the main course or a side dish and you can replace the cauliflower with broccoli if you wish. We found i...

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The Great Pimento Cheese Revival

Our recipes are usually what you would call “traditional,” but this one is downright “retro.” And yet, we have been seeing it everywhere lately, so we think we might just be on the cutting edge o...

GoatsStrawberry bruschetta

Strawberry and Goat Cheese Bruschetta

I found this recipe when I was looking for a dish to take to an outdoor, socially distanced pandemic meeting. I needed something where I could separate it on the platter so people would not have t...

Recipes with CheeseCheese risotto

How to Make Cheese Risotto on the Fly with What You Have

Image Credit: (Pxhere) Kathryn Cotton is a freelance writer with a sweet tooth and an obsession for cheese. She likes to cook and bake during her spare time. We’re delighted that she decided to...

Recipes with CheeseChevre cheese

Marinating Chevre

Here in New England, spring is “baby goat season” and we typically have an abundance of goat’s milk. It’s a great time to make marinated chevre. Of course, if you don’t happen to have any goat m...

Recipes with CheeseDumplings

Easy Cheesy Biscuits/Dumplings

We’re not sure why it is that, on the web, these are called dumplings instead of biscuits. It could be simply that in England, they are called dumplings and here in the U.S. they are called biscu...

Recipes with CheeseCheese and chipotle potato soup

Cheesy Chipotle Potato Soup

This is a basic recipe for a very simple and very yummy soup. We derived it from several different recipes online, so we have included many options in a second version below. We used one ingredi...

Recipes with Cheeseparmesan fried zucchini

Parmesan Zucchini Fries (Keto Friendly)

Keto is a low-carb, high fat diet where the goal is to be in ketosis (fat burning mode). Cheese fits the profile so, it’s the basis for a lot of the most delicious recipes. We love cheese, and w...

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Korean Style Cheesy Corn

Martha Harrington of Conway, Massachusetts told us about this recipe when it first came out a few weeks ago in Food & Wine. With corn season almost upon us here in New England, it seemed to b...

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Mari's Brazilian Cheese Bread

Our friend, Mariana Veiga sent us this recipe and we absolutely love it! Mari is from Brazil originally and now she and her husband and 5 year old son are living in Bled, Slovenia. Mari used to b...

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Super-Easy Baked Broccoli Cheese Balls

Served with ranch dressing. This appetizer is ridiculously easy to make! And, it’s a great way to get your family to eat their broccoli. If you want to make it in advance, you can shape the ball...

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Bob's Smoked Tuna with Homemade Cream Cheese

Bob Albers of Mandeville, Louisiana sent us this recipe – his 14th contribution to our blog since 2016.* You don’t have to make your own cream cheese for it, but it’s extra special when you do (an...

Recipes with CheeseStrawberries and bread in a pan

Strawberry Cobbler for Valentine's Day

It’s the sweetest time of year again! We combined a couple of recipes to come up with this one – simple and yummy and just the treat for your sweetie on Valentine’s Day. I used frozen strawberri...

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Cheese Coated Olives

I based this recipe on one at the Cheeses from Switzerland website because I’m partial to Gruyère and they have a lot of great recipes featuring it and other Alpine cheeses. I wanted it to be glut...

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Make Ahead Cheesy Kale Gratin

You may have noticed a theme here with all the “make ahead” dishes I’ve been sharing recently. I am, in fact, getting ready to host a rather large gathering at my home on Christmas. (Ricki, the ...

Recipes with CheeseGluten free cheesy nut loaf with bowl of sauce in middle

Make Ahead Gluten Free Cheesy Nut Loaf

An easy recipe to make in advance of the holidays. I make this every time I host Christmas for my family because my vegetarian relatives love it. In fact, my brother’s wife gave me this recipe ye...

Recipes with CheeseLimoncello No-Bake mini Cheesecake

Gluten-Free Limoncello No-Bake Mini Cheesecakes

We posted Bob Albers’s recipe for limoncello last month (click here), and it was outrageously! delicious. I was looking for a way to use it in a dessert for the holidays and I wanted at least one...

Recipes with CheeseTomatoes stuffed with mozzarella

Cherry Tomatoes Stuffed with Fresh Mozzarella

I recently started doing the Ketogenic Diet which I absolutely love, and I now eat as much cheese as I want to (and that’s quite a bit!). I was going to an event where I didn’t know if I would fi...

Recipes with CheeseCheese Corn Fritters in a pan

Easy-Cheesy Corn Fritters

There are at least a million recipes online for these fritters, but I had never tasted one until my brother’s wife, Karen made them at a family vacation in Maine. She had extra corn on the cob and...

Recipes with Cheese"Brigadeiro" Chocolate balls with sprinkles

Brigadeiro - A Sweet Treat From Brazil

Mariana Veiga is from Brazil and when she saw our last post (How to Make Condensed Milk), she sent us her recipe for the fabulous brigadeiro. This is the classic version of the delightful fudge b...

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