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.
GOLDEN BEET SALAD WITH WISCONSIN BLUE CHEESE AND HICKORY NUTS
Salad: 2 pounds golden beets (or red beets), simmered in water until tender 4 green onions, thinly sliced 2 tablespoons fresh dill, chopped 3/4 cups Wisconsin Blue cheese, crumbled 1/2 cup hickory nuts, toasted in the oven (pecans can be substituted)
Dressing: 1-1/2 tablespoons lemon juice 3 tablespoons cider vinegar 2 tablespoons honey 1/2 teaspoon black pepper 4 tablespoons canola oil 1/4 teaspoon salt
Peel cooked beets, chill and cut into slices or batons. Whisk together all the ingredients for the dressing. Mix the dressing with the beet mixture. Combine with green onions, dill and half of the blue cheese. Arrange the salad in a decorative bowl or platter and sprinkle the top with the remaining blue cheese and toasted hickory nuts.
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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