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.
To Make: Peel potatoes, slice into thin round slice. Reserve. Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in cast iron skillet; add garlic and saute' 1 minute. Add basil and stock and cook until reduced to form syrupy glaze. Remove from heat, add turkey and season with half the salt and pepper.Reserve mixture in skillet. In 10-inch nonstick skillet, heat remaining 5 tablespoons olive oil over medium heat, add leeks and saute' until limp, about 2 minutes. Add reserved potato slices and press down into pan to form a cake. Season with remaining salt and pepper. Continue cooking undisturbed over medium to low heat several minutes or until well-browned on bottom.
To Serve: Sprinkle Brick cheese evenly over turkey mixture in skillet. Flip the potato cake over and place on top of cheese and turkey. Bake gratin in skillet in 350F oven 10 minutes or until heated through and cheese is melted. Cut into wedges and serve with crisp green salad and slice tomatoes.
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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