A few hints make cooking with Wisconsin cheese an easy and tasty success: Use low heat, just enough to melt the cheese and blend it with other ingredients. High heat makes natural cheese tough and stringy. Avoid long cooking, which also makes cheese tough and stringy; cook just enough to melt. To promote even melting, slice, shred, grate, cube or dice cheese before adding as an ingredient.
CHEESY PASTA WITH VEGETABLES
4 tablespoons butter 4 cups sliced onions 3 tablespoons lemon juice 1 teaspoon hot pepper sauce Salt, to taste 3 cups (8 ounces) dry fusili (corkscrew) pasta 2 cups sliced mushrooms 1-1/2 cups fresh or frozen snow peas, thawed or frozen peas, thawed 1-1/2 cups cherry tomatoes 1-1/4 cups (5 ounces) shredded, chilled Wisconsin Brick 2 tablespoons chopped parsley
Melt butter in 10-inch skillet. Add onions. Cook over medium-low beat about 30 minutes until onions are soft and pale gold; do not brown. Stir in lemon juice and pepper sauce. Add salt, cover and set aside. Cook pasta in salted boiling water as package directs. A few minutes before pasta finishes cooking, add mushrooms, snow peas and tomatoes to onion mixture. Cover and set over medium-low heat, tossing once or twice, until vegetables are heated through. Drain pasta. Turn onto serving platter. Cover with hot vegetable mixture. Scatter cheese over top. Sprinkle with parsley. Serve immediately.
Cheese is a nutritious milk product that has been one of man's most important foods for thousands of years. The United States and France rank as the leading cheese-producing countries. Wisconsin is the leading cheese making state. Wisconsin Cheese comes in about 350 varieties and in many different sizes and shapes. There are literally several thousands of varieties world wide.
History of Cheese Making
Widmer's Wisconsin Cheese Legacy...
In Wisconsin, the cheese making
legacy runs deep and examples of
third-and fourth generation
Wisconsin cheese makers carrying
on the family tradition are common.
Joe Widmer, is one such third-generation example. Widmer's Cheese Legacy
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