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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Lyonnaise Garlic & Herb Cheese

Lyonnaise Garlic & Herb Cheese

What I love about cooking my way through Dorie's Around My French Table is that I am building a working reference to all kinds of new ingredient combinations and  food creations.  This week's recipe is a quick wonderful cheese dip or spread.  While I didn't have fresh parsley or tarragon :-(, I did use some dried bouquet garni (Penzeys), fresh garlic, shallot, and chives, red pepper flakes, red balsamic vinegar, extra virgin olive oil, and Hawaiian sea salt with ricotta. I found the part skim ricotta nice and dry so I skipped the 'waiting for the cheese to lose some of its water step' and mixed everything up right away. I let it chill in the fridge for about an hour.  Served on petit toasts, topped with a green olive, it was delicious.  Husband and I ate it as our appetizer before dinner of sea bass with roasted cherry tomato and vidalia onion, lemon and thyme.  Delish!  But I didn't take a picture of the fish, guess I should have.  I can't wait to see how everyone else served this cheese.


8 comments:

  1. Kathleen, Your spread looks so pretty served with those little toasts! I love your idea of using balsamic vinegar instead of the red wine…I just like the taste better. I bet the red pepper flacks were good in this, too…great ideas! Have a wonderful Memorial Day!

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  2. I like your combination of ingredients, they seem to work well. Using the balsamic is a great
    idea, so much more flavor. We enjoyed this too. Happy Memorial Day.

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  3. Great rendition with the bouquet garni!

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  4. I like the olive on top idea. Yum.
    We changed up the herbs on ours as well - this recipe was definitely more of a concept than hard and fast rules.
    Have a great weekend.

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  5. I think you really added so much to the spread by adding the extra herbs and seasoning. Anything with a dash Penzey's spices in it IS great. My spread definitely needed more punch. Liked your photo.

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  6. I love Penzey's! I'm lucky that they have an actual "brick-and-mortar" store in the town next to mine. Easy shopping. Nice job on the cheese spread. Glad you enjoyed it.

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  7. I like your inspired take on the cheese... the red pepper flakes and balsamic vinegar would make this great as stuffing for a lasagna. Yummy!

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  8. Your spread looks delicious! I really like your flavor combos!

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