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Fruit and Cheese of the Month
Jan. 13th, 2024 05:17 pmwhen I was a kid I was enchanted with the Harry and David catalog, and the boxes of fruit and nuts that my uncle used to send to my grandparents. i toyed with the idea of buying myself a subscription to fruit and cheese of the month boxes for this year, but decided it would be more fun* to make it a date instead.
starting in December i set up a recurring "Fruit and Cheese of the Month" event on our calendar. we walk down to Pike Place Market, buy whatever fruit is seasonal and good that day, and then go to the cheese counter at DeLaurenti's and ask for a cheese pairing recommendation. (Last month was pomegranate, and a hard goat cheese from Spain.)
the extreme-for-Seattle cold this morning (14°F) meant that the market was pretty empty. we try to arrive as close to opening time as possible so that C can get a GF cinnamon roll before they sell out. they were still hot but most of the heat had gone by the time we took a few steps away. a lot of vendors didn't even open, so our produce selection was limited to Sosio's. we rarely shop there, mostly because it's in the heart of the busiest part of the main arcade and on a weekend there are too many people to linger long enough to shop. today we got to talk with the owner, get fed so many samples, and have our fruit chosen for us based on when we plan to eat it 💖. how cold was it? their damp cleanup towel was frozen stiff.
we took our local Comice (creamy texture, notes of white wine) pear and local Lucy Glow apples (a honeycrisp/red-flesh apple cross, golden orange skin and firm flesh marbled with red, sweet-tart) off to get cheese. also quiet, where normally one is constantly being banged into by milling people while at the counter. since we got two fruits we got two cheeses, a firmish assertive gorgonzola for the pear and a creamy soft-ripened goat (looks like brie) for the apple.
tomorrow we'll eat them
*and economical, and environmentally sound, by a long shot. plus C doesn't like pineapple and mango which would make two of the projected months less fun.
starting in December i set up a recurring "Fruit and Cheese of the Month" event on our calendar. we walk down to Pike Place Market, buy whatever fruit is seasonal and good that day, and then go to the cheese counter at DeLaurenti's and ask for a cheese pairing recommendation. (Last month was pomegranate, and a hard goat cheese from Spain.)
the extreme-for-Seattle cold this morning (14°F) meant that the market was pretty empty. we try to arrive as close to opening time as possible so that C can get a GF cinnamon roll before they sell out. they were still hot but most of the heat had gone by the time we took a few steps away. a lot of vendors didn't even open, so our produce selection was limited to Sosio's. we rarely shop there, mostly because it's in the heart of the busiest part of the main arcade and on a weekend there are too many people to linger long enough to shop. today we got to talk with the owner, get fed so many samples, and have our fruit chosen for us based on when we plan to eat it 💖. how cold was it? their damp cleanup towel was frozen stiff.
we took our local Comice (creamy texture, notes of white wine) pear and local Lucy Glow apples (a honeycrisp/red-flesh apple cross, golden orange skin and firm flesh marbled with red, sweet-tart) off to get cheese. also quiet, where normally one is constantly being banged into by milling people while at the counter. since we got two fruits we got two cheeses, a firmish assertive gorgonzola for the pear and a creamy soft-ripened goat (looks like brie) for the apple.
tomorrow we'll eat them
*and economical, and environmentally sound, by a long shot. plus C doesn't like pineapple and mango which would make two of the projected months less fun.
