Cheese of the week: Midnight Moon
This week's cheese is Midnight Moon, a gouda-style aged goat cheese from Cypress Grove in California. I chose it because Jon suggested it in comments a couple weeks back, and also because I was determined to try something from outside the midwest after a question from Suttonhoo about cheese from the coasts. I didn't notice until I got it home that the cheese is actually manufactured in Holland and not California! But I decided to include it here anyway.
I picked it up at Target in Broadview, where they have a much better selection of serious American cheese than I would have expected from a Target. I do think the textures suffer a little from the shrinkwrapping there as compared with the paper-wrapped cheeses I get over at Marion Street, but I love that Target carries stuff from Roth Käse, Carr Valley, and other serious local cheesemakers.
I liked it, but not as much as some other reference cheeses I've had -- for example, the goat milk half of the Mobay from a couple weeks ago, or Rembrandt Gouda, which I've been eating and cooking with a lot lately. The flavor profile is very much like a gouda, but weaker and less complex. It's a dense cheese, but the texture isn't as grainy or crumbly as I'd like. Still, it's a pleasant enough cheese for eating, and it would be good to cook with too -- in an omelet, maybe? I'd like to give it another go at some point, particularly if I see it at Marion Street.
midnight moon at the broadview target. crazy. especially after being there the other day looking for a simple, plain log of chevre. impossible.
I like the midnight moon because it has a mild goat flavor with a gouda texture. I'm not a fan of gaot, but I'm a fan of gouda. so this was the best of both worlds for me. Try some at Marion Street Cheese -- I'm sure it's much better than Target...
thanks again for the recommendation jon. i'll definitely give this another try when it reappears at marion... i don't know if their stock rotates a bit or if they had just run out when i was there the other day.
if you have any suggestions for a good gouda, i'd love to hear them. the rembrandt gouda i mentioned is delicious, but i'm sure it's not the best one out there. do you like mimolette?
cool.
curious gouda trivia: the Dutch settled in/ colonized the Yucatan in Mexico once upon a time, so a regional specialty is a whole small wheel of gouda (which is not all that small) fried and served with sauce -- as an entree.
honest.
haven't tried it. didn't want the heart attack. but they love the gouda in the yucatan.
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