He revels in the basic glory of mild, milky cheese with cured meat, and keeps coming at this marriage in fresh ways.
Strips of roast pepper are superb with mild cheese such as ricotta or halloumi, and with the contrasting texture of toasted nuts such as pine or hazel; they love spices, too, particularly cumin and paprika.
Jolie Ravioli also come in kid-friendly shapes like teddy bears, rocket ships, stars and hearts, all filled with mild cheese.
Entrees include skewered minced lamb kebabs, flavored with mild cheese; shrimp, lamb or chicken prepared in a vindaloo sauce, which is a very hot coconut and red pepper curry sauce; lamb korma, with cashews and saffron flavored sauce; and chicken tikka masala.
And it has a huge menu of simple, classic Mexican lunch-counter food, with a few real gems: the tacos, tortas (sandwiches) and the hard-to-find cemita, a sesame-seed roll stuffed with mild cheese, whole chipotle peppers, roast meat, avocado and papalo, an herb that tastes like the love child of cilantro and arugula.
The homemade ravioli are standard issue, stuffed with a mild cheese mixture, but the lovely, fennel-scented meat sauce takes them to a higher level.
Kunefe is a patty of baked, shredded phyllo dough filled with a mild cheese and served warm; it was a surprising combination of tastes that I liked very much.
Using the JAR scale, the medium cheeses were considered closest to JAR with a mean score of 3.0, compared with 2.4 for mild cheese and 3.6 for sharp cheese.
A whole wheel of Hooligan (French-style washed-rind cheese) is $30 each; each wheel weighs between 1.6 to 2 pounds Herdsman Deluxe is a selection of 4 pounds of three cheeses (one whole Hooligan wheel, plus a strong and mild cheese) at $60. Shipping extra, with one or two-day delivery.
