I was in Aldi food and beer shopping and I noticed there was West Cork buffalo greek style cheese for sale. I decided to risk it for a biscuit and put some in the supermarket trolley:
It was very reasonably priced I think it was 2 Euros fifty nine. I recently paid nearly 5 Euros for some Lancashire Creamy cheese in M &S in Killarney.
English cheeses are something else I find to source along with English beer like Newcastle Brown Ale here in little ould Ireland. I blame Brexit.
Any way or any road. I looked up the buffalo cheese website. There is a West Cork farmer in Macroom who owns an herd of buffalo. "Oh give me an home where the buffalo roam.." "You"ll get big piles on yer carpet!"😀
In the early seventies West Cork had it's own version of Woodstock in Macroom and the likes of Thin Lizzy and Rory Gallagher played a music festival at Macroom castle and put Macroom firmly on the map.
Now I think an herd of 500 +buffalo are doing the same!
Check out their website and video.
Anyone tasted buffalo cheese?
I assume that this is like Feta ?
ReplyDeleteNot tasted buffalo cheese yet, but aiming to next time I stay with my bro in Somerset...there is a buffalo farm near Yeovil Marsh, I know they do ice cream and have opened a farm shop
Yes GZ. It would be great on homemade pizza. It's really different. I am going to try their other products. I look forward to seeing your post about the Somerset buffalo farm.
ReplyDeleteI love feta cheese so if this is the same then I think it would be very good. I like it crumbled into salads and over traybakes. Yum.
ReplyDeleteYes. We should all go over to see Linda in Poros some time JayCee.
ReplyDeleteHa, ha, yes. I bet she'd be thrilled!!
DeleteI don't mean for us just to drop on her JayCee.
DeleteCome on over. As they say here, there's room for everyone, as long you're a good'un. There'll be feta and Greek salad and octopus and lots of internal organs 😁😁
DeleteThanks Linda. It's the Feta cheese link that made me think of you.
DeleteBuffalo are very interesting creatures. My father tried 'beefalo' farming at one point, and it had a very sad end. The calves were too big for the cows that birthed them.
ReplyDeleteThat cheese looks like a good one. I love feta cheese. You have so many critters on the small holding. You need a goat or two. You could make your own feta cheese. I had a friend who made mozzarella. I made homemade cottage cheese and never went farther than that. However, perhaps now the time is right to explore that more.
You are really good writer Debby. J made cottage goat cheese once. We have lots and lots of pigs these days. We put two pigs in the freezer last week. "Blessed are the cheese makers". That's an old Monty Python joke.
ReplyDeleteMy friend made mozzarella from goat's milk and it was yummo! I bought from her regularly.
DeleteYes it is very good Debby. So is goats milk soap. Great for skin conditions.
DeleteA "herd of roaming water buffalo in West Cork"? Good heavens! What next? Elephants thundering through Skibbereen? Wild pigs in Bandon?
ReplyDeleteP.S. Chunks of feta-style cheese may be best in a simple salad with a handful of black olives thrown in.
There is an elephant statue in Clonakilty YP.
ReplyDeleteThere is also the story of Togu the US monkey that visited Clonakilty and they mamed a beer after it.
ReplyDeleteBuffalo mozzarella, mozzarella di bufala Campana, is a traditional staple food in southern Italy, as the name says, originally from Campania, very tasty. Apparently, buffalo have been in that area since the middle ages. The feta type cheese is a newish edition.
ReplyDeleteI don't eat much cheese. A pack of small cheeses lasts me two weeks. I like a cheese roll (I mean cheese in a bread roll) . Mostly I buy cheddar small ones and sometimes a piece of Somerset Brie because I like that with a tomato. That's all. I don't spend much on cheese.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly enough Sabine. The original West Cork herd of 31 originated in Italy. Now they have over 500 buffalo/s. Thanks Sabine.
ReplyDeleteI''ve never heard of buffalo Greek style cheese before, neither have I heard of Macroom. I'm off to do some googling now :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Rachel. Food and drink in Britain an Ireland should be championed and we shoul all be able to avail of it. I could do with planning a trip to Blighty for next summer. Hmm...🤔
ReplyDeleteI should get new reading glasses after those typos sorry.
ReplyDeleteNormally Debby (above) sends me down Google rabbit holes Jules. Have you ever visited Ireland?
ReplyDeleteI haven't yet, but I'm looking forward to doing so, one day.
DeleteIt's a great country to explore and not got a large population.
DeleteI presume, it is anyway related to Greece that it's water buffalo cheese. There are herds of them in the north. Feta style cheeses are often very salty. Don't why because feta is usually not too salty.
ReplyDeleteIf yours is creamy and salty it will be excellent on plain crackers, with some tomato.
Aldi and Lidls give you great variety and good prices
Yes it is. Aldi seems to be going more up market Linda. More quality than discount prices. It pays to shop around.
ReplyDeleteYou could try making your own cheese Dave. Something new like say pig's milk cheese😁
ReplyDeleteWell TM there is plenty of sheep milk cheese. I wouldn't like to try milking a sow.
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