My Ode to blue

Hello everyone!

Yesterday as I was admiring my vat full of milk an order came in for some product- into the aging room I went and when I came out I carried with me the new blue which is a larger and much handsomer version of the Little Boy Blue- its hard to not love him in this new handsomely plump size. The Big Boy Blue is a smooth and gentle blue with a creamy undertone and the blue development was so beautiful it moved me to a place of poetry.

My ode to blue!
Oh my my blue is so new!
So lovely is my blue! You won't say eeeww or moo when you eat my blue
It doesn't even smell like poo!
My new blue has no clue its better than stew
Oh my my new blue
If you get blue on your shoe it will no longer be new but
ohohohohoh so yummy is my blue
My big boy blue!
My love is true this is my ode to you
Who knew it would be you?
Don't be a shrew eat my new Big Boy Blue!

Very soon the Portland Farmers market will be opening and you will be able to sample some of it! I am starting to get awfully excited. You will enjoy the delightful benefits of my enthusiasm in a new product I am launching : fromage blanc. The fromage blanc is a lower fat product that does not contain cream and is very similar to a chevre. Its had some wonderful reviews from my taste testers and we will have a small amount of it at the Hillsdale farmers market this Sunday.
I am also hard at work creating a buttermilk blue dressing for all those wonderful spring greens that will be popping up soon my mouth is watering thinking of it on top of some freshly steamed asparagus. Uuumm yum....
I love the fact that with three simple ingredients milk, culture and rennet you can unleash thousands of different flavors and textures and love exploring :)

For those of you that follow me on facebook you saw the udder glee I obtained from opening my big box of goodies from Nelson Jameson. I now have a pink mop and color coded cleaning accessories for the cheese room and color coordinated holding racks to keep them in their place :) There is a lot of pink and yellow to compliment the stainless steel in the CR now.
I even used my Dads drill and attached them to the creamery walls myself-even though the girls were a little scared being around me and power tools.

Here is a nice recipe that contains a nice variety of Jacobs Creamery products that I cleaverly cut and pasted from Epicurious without their consent :)

• 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter (that was hand churned fresh this week)
  
• 1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil
• 2 large onions (about 1 1/3 pounds total), halved through root end, thinly sliced lengthwise
• Fine sea salt
• 1 16-ounce container sour cream
• 1 8-ounce container crème fraîche
• 1/2 cup fromage blanc or cream cheese
• 3/4 teaspoon ground chipotle chile powder or chives or green onions if you prefer
  
• Garlic pita chips or my new favorite carrot sticks!
  

Tally ho!
Yours always
Cheese Czarina!