It's made me remember just how good Wensleydale cheese is, and how in this time of wildly varied brunch options, something simple, cooked well, is still very hard to beat.
Making the salad again for lunch last winter it crossed my mind how good the cheese might be melted under the grill with the pepper-spiced oil being used to soak a few rounds of accompanying rough-edged toast.
It never ceases to amaze me how good a simple turkey and Swiss cheese sandwich with mustard can taste in the mountains.
In a land with such an abundance of quality food, with vast numbers of cookbooks and homes with larger and larger kitchens, it is pitiful that one needs to eat out to get macaroni and cheese, regardless of how good it is.
"If you're a good cheese monger, you know how to put your cheese away like I've done since '75.
"How good are these?" she said, working her way through a cheese biscuit as she looked at the menu.
Or check with a good cheese purveyor.
Then followed a very good cheese tray.
I think we had very good cheese.
