Day 15 – Fromage Therapy
Day 15.
I have just learned that the weather forecast is calling for up to six inches of snow at Mudflats Central. Yes, you read that correctly. No need for eye-rubbing or double-takes.
SIX. INCHES. OF. SNOW.
So, what’s the closest thing to a cure for this kind of mind-numbing disbelief, followed by abject depression? Cheese, that’s what.
I decided to take a little trip to my new favorite shop in town – Fromagio’s. They now have a second location on Spenard Road. On its face it seems like an unlikely location for a cheese shop. It’s smushed between a former strip club, and a muffler shop, and something made of concrete. It also happens to be in the building that used to be Drop Zone, a military surplus store/security company/fugutive recovery service owned by FBI undercover informant for the Schaeffer Cox trial, Bill Fulton. I know, right?
I think that little bit of history makes it all the more awesome.
So, I went, I bought cheese, (an aged cheddar, and a semi-soft truffly one) and I had a grilled stilton sandwich with fig and almond that almost made me die of joy. My daughter raved, “I don’t ever need to eat again. I’m perfectly happy. I’m done.” They also have soup, salad, and a bunch of other yummy sandwiches. Do stop in if you get the opportunity. And no, they didn’t pay me to say anything. They’re just that good.
As for our sign of spring, I did find this cool little video from our neighbor to the east. This is why they call it Breakup. Check out the ice breaking up on the Yukon River in Dawson City, about 40 miles into Canada.
What an awesome capture on the video!!! Nature is robust!
Ohhh, Yummy!!! And what a surprise to find Thomasville Tomme front and center in this cheese display. We serve it in the tasting room at our winery, and it is a favorite, made by Sweet Grass Dairy in Thomasville, GA
Go to their website (www.sweetgrassdairy.com) and be prepared to drool!
When times get tough, there’s no better weapon than a grilled cheese and green chile sandwich. You Northerners may substitute sliced tomato instead (if you can actually find a tomato that tastes like a tomato) but really, nothing like a nice grilled Hatch green in amongst all that melty, runny glorious cheese.
Do you slip across the border to Hatch Valley or do they deliver fresh chile?
Hatch is a 4 hour drive, and my friends there grow their own. If I drive home the back way, I can usually avoid the Capsaicin Patrols. Chile and chile products are closely monitored here in my homeland. If those old, white, conservative Republicans who come here from the rest of the country to spawn their noxious politics before they die were to ever get hold of the good stuff, why they might start liking Mexican food, and that might lead to a general liking of Mexicans themselves. Capsaicin is a gateway drug that leads to greater tolerance and appreciation, and it must be stopped.
I can’t edit after I posted. The key word I wanted was “capsicum”. That’s the chemical ticket. Sorry!
On Sunday and Monday, it was “spitting snow” here in central PA. Today, it was mid 80s. (Tonight, at 11:00, still 68). Call me crazy, but I’m thinking Global Warming.
Cheese shop ? Wonderful idea!
Would never have thought of a cheese shop as an antidote to a seemingly endless winter but it does seem quite sensible 🙂
Take best of care there.
Cabin fever contracted on the outer ring of winter is tough to fight.
Getting some much needed moisture. Several hills of spuds are showing through,lettuce is coming up and neighbor lady made off with about twelve pounds of asparagus. She left me a dozen warm chocolate chip cookies fresh from her oven. I got the better of the deal as asparagus will be right back up tomorrow and I haven’t sampled a cookie. Got three male Orioles and one female. The third male is content to sip nectar while the other two fight for the lady fair.Oh to be young and dumb and fueled by testosterone again.
BTW-our fuel prices jumped up 20 cents overnight. We are now above the national average and they claim prices won’t ease before mid-June. Freaking crooks.
I have never seen an oriole in real life. . They are so beautiful in photos.
We have a lot of LBJs around here, mostly pine siskins.
My spuds aren’t showing yet, nor are peas, but kale lettuces, and spinaches are doing just great under floating row cover.
Dang. I don’t have anything yet to trade for cookies. Dang.
My neighbor is from German stock. Maybe you coukld swap beer for her cookies. She just turned 76 and spent yesterday morning in a tractor finishing field work so her SIL could plant soybeans before it rained. She also quilts with her church group and wops possums with an aluminum bat-she never learned to shoot a gun. She is also the last of the widows on Widoers Mile. The other two have moved to town. Eva is 103 or 104 and Gladys is 83. Getting lonely out here.
If I wuz any kind of friend,I’d send you my cookies before I eat them all(If I wuz any kind of friend)
Don’t feel badly, mikey.
Immediately upon whining here about cookies, a plate of rhubarb muffins arrived at my door as a trade for seed potatoes.
I’ve been ordering extras the last couple years and showing interested folks how to grow them in containers as well as taking armloads of fresh greens around the neighborhood when they are ready to eat.
As is the way of such trades, I have ended up with fresh and smoked salmon, kelp salsa, applesauce from the only real apple tree in a bazillion miles, gooseberry and blueberry jam and think I have the better part of the deal whilst my friends and neighbors think they do 🙂
But I do so love chocolate chip cookies…
How does one tell if rw nutjob militias made C4 plastique to look similar to fancy cheeses? Toss a chunk of Limberger cheese and terrorists won’t need explosives. Around 84 and severe weather sneaking my way through Nebraska. No snow……..maybe hail and high winds for later. Spring is coming,I swear.
It’s my fault.
I put the snow shovel out in the shed two days ago..
I know. Kick me.
YOU PUT YOUR SNOW SHOVEL AWAY?
It IS your fault.
Slipstream, I know you know better than that!! What were you thinking?
If you see Spring lying on the ground in a parking lot or something, help the poor thing back on her feet, dust her off and send her North to do her job.
/WC
Addess?
Ugh, Address?