Since this is a week of my favorite things, it could not be complete with out something made with cheese - smoked gouda to be exact. You see, I love cheese. Some of my favorite cheeses are creamy blue cambozola, hard and earthy moliterno, and brown Norwegian gjetost. All of these cheeses are relatively common, but I also love to go to cheese shops and try out something new. But the cheese I really can't resist? Smoked gouda. I can't get enough of the soft texture and the slight smoky flavor. I often cut it into cubes and take it to work for lunch or for a snack on the weekend, and I have also made an amazing mac and cheese with it (maybe I will post that here soon!).
Recently, my local Henry's Farmers Market was selling smoked gouda that was sliced for sandwiches. Whoa! I was all over that, and I might have bought quite a bit... Which is fine, because that meant I could make all sorts of things with my favorite cheese.
For a weekend lunch, I decided I felt like having grilled cheese. I picked up some fresh sourdough bread, opened my fridge to get out the sliced gouda... and also saw that I had beautiful green apples in the fridge. The wheels started turning in my head, and I thought the apples would be a tart and crunchy counterpoint to the creamy gouda.
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