Tasty Tasty

It occurred to me today that i write about food a lot here. i could go into the deep psychological reasons for said writings- but that is boring and no one wants to read about it :)

But, back to the point at hand... Cheese. Damn, it is so tasty. Back home you know how it is. It's basically 3 options for cheese that isn't going to cost you an arm and six legs: Cheddar, Mozzerella, Marble. Then you have things like Havarti, Gouda, Feta... but they are usually out of the price range of a struggling twenty-something like me.

however, here these super tasty cheeses are so much cheaper. So i have been working my through various types trying to find the one i like the best and add a little variation to my daily diet. (almost like my buddy Nick- but he is slowly working his way through the various Schnitzels available in the local restaurants).

So far the list of Cheese i have tried is kinda extensive, but they are usually served by the family at supper (without their labels of course) and so i don't really know what they are called. Of the ones that really sick out in my mind:

-->some sort of honeyed goat cheese. it is softer than Feta and infinitely more tasty
-->Havarti (spicy kind)- it was a bit of a let down. not spicy at all, but it did melt well on pizza :)
-->Emmental- OMG. It was the most TERRIBLE thing i have ever tried to call cheese!! it smelled so good, but in the end tasted like old rubber- we are talking worse than Double Bubble here folks. *ugh*
--> Gouda- this is so far my fav cheese here. there is some fantastic Dutch stuff floating around here. YUM. it so far melts the best and tastes the best by itself.

There's a shout out to the weird cheese that is filled with fresh herbs and wrapped in grape leaves too. it is so random, it needed to be mentioned.

I'm also going to take a moment here to state that i haven't had the nerve yet to try the weird cheeses with streaks of green (of any sort) in them. That just seems wrong to me somehow :s