It was so nice to get a hostess gift on Columbus Day from the As. We didn’t have a cheese tray this size, nor did we have the Oxo cheese slicer. (sturdy like other Oxo products; dishwasher safe; but you do need to have the cheese nice and cold — not eating temperature).
For Saturday night dinner, I decided buy everything at the Kensington Safeway, and they do have a fairly large grocery store cheese selection — there were some aged cheeses just sitting in the case for $22 a pound. I chose: Aloute Baby Brie, because I had a rebate up to $6.49 through the end of 2009. For a grocery store brie, it was fine tasting, but not particularly creamy — could much more see it as a baked brie rather than room temp on the cheese tray.
I also got Stripey Jack–Five layers of cheese in one, giving a striking display of red and white layers of traditional regional English cheeses–just because I knew it would look pretty on the cheese tray. Red Leicester, Double Gloucester, white and yellow Cheddar and Lancashire. Last: Denmark’s finest blue cheese — crumbly and good for salad, but probably not the best cheese plate selection.
