Dinner: Rush Creek Reserve

Tonight Dave and I had a fabulous dinner centered around a very special cheese: Rush Creek Reserve. I've written about it on my other blog, so I won't go into it too much here, but the short version is that it's a new type of cheese from one of my favorite Wisconsin cheese makers, Uplands Cheese Company.


The Rush Creek is the center of the meal, where I just lopped off the top of the cheese and scooped it with a flat knife. I served it with some plain water crackers, a few other cheeses, apples, walnuts, dandelion honey from Minnesota, and a pomegranate (not pictured). We tried the cheese with various combinations of goodies, but honestly my favorite was just the cheese on the cracker. It's so wonderfully smoky and flavorful.

Well, it was hard work finding this cheese, but kudos to Andy Hatch of Uplands for this innovative and delicious wheel of gooey cheese.