I love Cheese. Not quite sure about you, but I can eat cheese with anything. I typically stick with grocery store cheeses; shredded, grated, shaved, blocks, double-cream, triple-cream, green veins, chunks, balled.... give me cheese!
I've recently had a jones-ing for better quality cheese and thus started researching Cheese Shops in Central Jersey. I discovered "Bon Appetit", a specialty food's store, located in Princeton.
This past Sunday, Jason and I took a trip to Bon Appetit where we were quite surprised with the abundance of goodies they sell. They have a meats section, with a nice variety of salami's and cured hams, a bakery section with freshly baked bread and cakes, and of course a cheese area equipped with a Cheese monger to provide all sorts of recommendations on cheese. http://www.bonappetitfinefoods.com/
We sampled a few cheeses and then decided on 3 cheeses (2 Italian and 1 French) to purchase:
1)Montasio - Italian cows milk. Similar to a Parmesan, but much more mild. We enjoyed this by cutting it into small pieces and snacking on it - bread wasn't required.
2)Tallegio - Italian cows milk. Smelled pretty disgusting when we got it home, but tasted like heaven. We nixed the rind (not sure if it was edible or not) and then applied it (liberally) to slices of freshly-baked, crusty french bread (we picked this up at Bon Appetit when it was still warm).
3)Saint Agur - French cows milk. Pronounced: San-AhGEEEEr. This was a very creamy, salty, blue cheese. It was definitely mild when it comes to blue - not soo pungent. We also slathered this onto slices on french bread.
(from top to bottom: Saint Agur, Montasio and Tallegio)
Hi Christine, Thanks for the great information as Steve and I will have to check out this store. Also remember somewhere in the Lawrenceville area there is a cheese shop, etc. that we found out about at the Wine Tasting event that we all went to. I can't remember the name of the store but their cheese was also delicious. Love your Blog and X0
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