From coast to coast of our vast country, Canadian cheesemakers are producing unique and award-winning cheese. Enjoy a cheese board of their delicious creations on the deck or the dock with family and friends this summer. Plan for 30g of each cheese per person. For their aromas and flavours to waken, let the cheese warm-up for 60 minutes at room temperature prior to serving.
1. Quality Cheese’s Burrata Cheese
A fresh cow’s milk Ontario mozzarella ball, stuffed with its creamy curd. Drizzle with extra-virgin olive oil, cut it open to experience its yummy centre with grilled sliced baguette and soft sun-dried tomatoes.
QualityCheese.com
2. Salt Spring Island Cheese’s Smoked Salmon and Capers Chèvre
A hand-made goat cheese from B.C.’s Salt Spring Island, smoked salmon and capers garnish the fresh cheese. A delicious centrepiece for a cheeseboard. Spread it onto thin French crêpes for a delicious finger food.
Salt Spring Island Cheese
3. Fromagerie Le Détour’s Le Verdict d’Alexina Cheese
A soft, Quebec Brie-style cheese. The only one in Canada made using three kinds of milk (cow, goat, and sheep). Spoon a wine jelly or a pepper jelly onto its edible, white rind.
Fromagerie le Détour
4. Fromagerie Fuoco’s Fuoco Cheese
Made from local water buffalo milk, this soft, Quebec artisanal cheese is washed with salt water, giving it sweet floral and barnyard aromas. Bake it in the oven and drizzle with local honey and roasted nuts.
Fromagerie Fuoco
5. Cows Creamery’s Avonlea Clothbound Cheddar
Following a Scottish recipe, this multiple award-winning P.E.I. cheese is wrapped in cheesecloth and aged for 12 to 18 months. This cows’ milk cheese has amazing flavour and aromas. Serve it with a slice of hot apple pie.
Cows Creamery
6. Gunn’s Hill Artisan Cheese’s Moo Brew Cheese
Imagine the aroma of finely ground, roasted espresso coffee beans coating the outside of an alpine-style mild cheese. This Ontario artisanal cheese is made with cows’ milk from the family’s dairy farm. Stuff it in a butterflied pork tenderloin to be roasted.
Gunn’s Hill Cheese
7. Sylvan Star’s Grizzly Gouda
With six generations of experience behind it, this Alberta-made cow’s milk aged gouda presents a butterscotch aroma with crunchy crystals. Cut into pieces onto a charcuterie board of your favourite local pork salami, duck pâté, or bison pemmican.
Sylvan Star
8. Arla Foods’ Smoked Gorgonzola Blue Cheese
A unique Ontario creation of a creamy blue cow’s milk cheese, naturally smoked over hardwood. Taste cream, saltiness, piquante, and smoke in one bite. Crumble onto a grilled T-bone steak or a hamburger.
Arla Foods
Gurth M. Pretty is the owner of Lakeview Cheese Galore.
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