{"id":1656,"date":"2009-06-13T12:47:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T16:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2009-06-13T12:48:44","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T16:48:44","slug":"impromptu-cheese-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/13\/impromptu-cheese-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Impromptu Cheese Spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/food\/IMG_3614.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/82927-2\/IMG_3614.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 title=\"Cheese spread made from a bunch of leftover cheese stubs, some extr-sharp cheddar, one clove of garlic, some dried parsley, and dry white wine. \"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is what happens when I&#8217;m cleaning the fridge and decide to turn the leftover (and rather old) stubs of high quality cheese into cheese spread. Taking the general idea from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/recipes\/alton-brown\/fromage-fort-recipe\/index.html\">this Good Eats recipe<\/a> I took about six ounces of cheese, 1.5 Tbsp of butter, one clove of garlic, and a pinch of (inadvertantly) refrigerator dried parsley and processed it all together. The resulting spread is very good, but quite salty. I think it&#8217;ll work best as a potato or corn topping, or maybe a sandwich spread to compliment something else.<\/p>\n<p>The cheeses used were very dried pieces of Montgomery Cheddar, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stichelton.co.uk\/\">Stitchelton<\/a>, Raw Milk Clothbound Cheddar, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caerphilly_cheese\">Caerphilly<\/a> which were grated on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microplane.com\/\">Microplane<\/a> to near the rind. These grated cheeses were then padded out to roughly six ounces with about two ounces of <a href=\"http:\/\/tillamookcheese.com\/OurProducts\/Cheese\/Vintage_White_Extra_Sharp_Cheddar.aspx\">Tillamook Vintage White Extra Sharp Cheddar<\/a> which is waiting around for me to use in more <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/food\/DSCN0849.jpg.html\">macaroni and cheese<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what happens when I&#8217;m cleaning the fridge and decide to turn the leftover (and rather old) stubs of high quality cheese into cheese&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/13\/impromptu-cheese-spread\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Impromptu Cheese Spread<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-making-things","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}