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.
TACO PINTO BEAN QUESADILLAS
One 16-ounce can pinto beans, drained 1/2 pound ground beef 2 teaspoons chile powder 2-3 tablespoons vegetable oil Twelve 9-inch flour tortillas 1 cup shredded Wisconsin Cheddar cheese 1 cup shredded Wisconsin Monterey Jack cheese 1/2 cup chopped onion 1 avocado, chopped
Cook the pinto beans and ground beef together, stirring often to prevent sticking. Drain; stir in chile powder. Set aside. Oil large griddle or skillet and heat over medium-high heat. Sprinkle beef-bean mixture, cheeses, onion and avocado evenly over tortillas, top with remaining tortillas and press together gently. Place tortillas on griddle and cook 2 minutes or until bottoms are browned. Carefully turn over and continue browning. Remove and cut into wedges. Variation: Add different combinations of vegetables and Wisconsin cheese before cooking.
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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