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French Cheese
Making up your cheese board is not so easy because you need to find a balance.
Ideally, you need to have all the main sorts of different "cheeses" (French are proud to say
that we have a different cheese for each day of the year).
Cheese is usually presented on a wooden board with special service settings accompanied
with a good bottle of Burgundy or Bordeaux red wine ; cheese and red wine are famous
for highly valueing each others' flavor.

It is always appreciated if you serve a lettuce with your cheeses.
Of course, serve your salad with a French vinaigrette.

Obviously you
must not forget French bread


French Cheese


YOUR CLASSIC CHEESE BOARD
:

- Camembert is our national cheese,
if there is one…
It is simply made of cow milk, and tastes far
better when creamy, so let it outside of the
fridge for a few hours
before serving so that you make it softer.
- Brie cheese could be commented the
same way.
- Goat's milk cheese : this is excellent and
will be the allied of most good red wines
because it brings out their flavor. Goat's milk
cheese can be very dry, fresh or creamy ;
prefer a medium dry one.
- Ewe's milk cheese : Roquefort is our most
famous, but we have many others in
France which can be hard or soft cheese.
The flavor is very authentic but sometimes
too powerful for "non-initiated" people.
Be aware
too that it can spoil some very
good red wine for the same reason.
- Cooked cheese : it is not the most tasty,
but you always need one on your board for
those who like it.

- Fromage frais : just as above, many
people are fond of fromage frais and
appreciate to have this choice on your
cheese board, or just by itself
after a heavy meal.

French vinaigrette : in a sauce shaker,
put 1 spoon of French Dijon Moutarde,
3 spoons of wine vinegar and 9 spoons of
olive oil. Add salt & pepper. Add basil if
you like it. Shake and pour on
your lettuce.

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