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.
SMOKIN' WISCONSIN GOUDA AND PRETZEL PASTA
12 ounces wagon wheel pasta 4 ounces butter 12 ounces portobello mushrooms, sliced 1 tablespoon fresh garlic, minced 1 bunch (6 or 7) green onion, sliced thin 3 tablespoons coarse ground mustard 4 cups (16 oz.) Wisconsin Smoked Gouda cheese, shredded 1-1/2 cups corn 3 ounces pretzels, coarsely crumbled salt and pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Cook pasta according to package instructions or until al dente; drain, rinse and place in large mixing bowl. Sauté mushrooms and garlic in butter for three minutes until limp. Add to pasta and toss. Add green onions, mustard, corn, salt, pepper and cheese to pasta and mushroom mixture. Mix well. Spoon into buttered, oven proof dish. Top with crumbled pretzels and bake for 20 minutes.
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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