Cheese ~ Storytelling ~ Authenticity ~ Creativity

Something Tasty: A cheese pairing to try

Taste Lab Pairings

Yesterday was our first Taste Lab! There were so many cheeses tried, combinations explored, and tastes trusted.

Our cheeses were:

• Brillat Savarin

• Sunny Ridge

• Marieke Gouda

• Ossau Iraty

• Parmigiano Reggiano

• Bleu D’Auvergne

Our pairing items were:

• Green olives

• Firehook organic sea salt crackers

• Oven roasted tomatoes

• Acacia honey

• White Gold honey

• Everything pretzel crisps

• French Onion confit

• Cornichons

• Spiced cherry spread

• Chocolate-covered figs

• Chocolate-covered graham crackers

• Whole grain dijon mustard

• Pistachios

Ok fine, there were 13 but I counted the two types of honey as one

Our wines were all Italian (by accident, actually):

• Moscato di Noto (dry white, organic, floral)

• Vino Rosso (dry red blend, medium tannin, dark red fruit)

• Moscato di Asti (sweet white, frizzante)

Some of the favorite pairings were the Gouda with tomatoes and olives (a very nostalgic pizza pairing for many), the onion confit with Ossau Iraty, the Bleu with the honeys and jams, and white gold honey with anything (and by itself).

Someone found their new favorite wine (the Moscato di Asti), and someone else found their new favorite cheese (Sunny Ridge)!

Try pairing some on your own and see what you find!

Something True: A truth about myself

Eclipse Reflections

Here’s the truth.

The astrology app I use gives me an affirmation every week.

Whether or not you “believe” in astrology, I think anything that is supposed to tell you something about yourself is valuable- not because it’s necessarily true, but it makes you curious about whether or not it is true.

It’s a way to either feel immediately validated, or look at yourself a bit differently and consider how you perceive yourself.

This week my affirmation was:

Starting your own business is scary. Asking people you know to pay for something you do is scary (to me at least). Taking your career into your own hands is scary.

It’s also incredibly freeing.

The agency I feel over my life is terrifying and empowering and exhilarating and healing. And it’s forcing me to Trust Myself.

Oops! got caught needing to take my own advice.

One of the reasons I created Trust Your Taste is because most of my life it has felt scary to trust myself. A lifetime of unlearning that messaging is what makes me scream at you:

WHO CARES IF YOU LIKE TO SCOOP OUT THE BRIE AND NO ONE ELSE DOES? YOU LIKE IT SO ENJOY IT!

WHO CARES IF THE CLOTHES YOU LIKE AREN’T TRENDY? DO YOU LOVE THEM? ARE THEY COMFY? AMAZING!

We all need permission to be ourselves every once in a while. We all need validation that being ourselves is not only okay, it might just be revolutionary.

What are you embracing about yourself during this eclipse?

Farm to Fable: How food shows up in storytelling 

Food in Twilight 3: Eclipse

If you happen to be someone who is doing a Twilight marathon all day today in honor of the eclipse, here is a very fun menu to follow.

I must admit…I’ve never seen any of the movies, or read any of the books (I was more of a wizard kid than a vampire kid, sue me).

But what I’ve heard and read is that Bella (Kristin Stewart) cooks a lot in the movies because her parents didn’t, or weren’t good at it.

We talk a lot about culinary traditions being passed down through family, but we don’t often talk about the creation of tradition or gastronomic knowledge in spite of family. And I think that’s super interesting! Idk! Think about it!

Until next time,

Anne-Marie

P.S. - Sunday Scaries

A terrifying AI image to help us all rest knowing AI bots could never replace a real human artist:

This week the prompt was “A solar eclipse where the moon is cheese”

Unoriginal at best. I know it’s a shadow, but that aint cheese.

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