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Philadelphia and PA folks take note: Madame Fromage has announced the dates for the 2014 Chester County Cheese Weekend:

Chester County Cheese Weekend

November 8 & 9, 2014

Hey, Philadelphia! You know how you love cheese and aggression? How about coming out to Kimberton, PA with me on Saturday, November 8, 2014 to watch a Cheesemonger Throwdown? You can nibble local cheeses and drink Troeg’s Beer on the sidelines as you watch cheesemongers from Salumeria, Di Bruno Bros., and other dairy venues compete to build Cheez Whiz art, answer cheese Quizzo questions, and create the perfect cheese bite.

Tickets ($35) to the throwdown include snacks and drinks — and, for just a few shekels more, you can add on a cheese gift box or the chance to toss yourself into the ring! Billed as a “Cheesy Social Club,” this event at the Kimberton Arts Center benefits the area’s major cheesemakers’ gild, the Chester County Cheese Artisans.

Want a more pastoral vibe with adorable cows and local cheese? Come out to the Kimberton Fairgrounds on Sunday, November 9 for the Good Food Feast, featuring a cheese cave full of local cheeses, plus a food truck round-up, and a scrapple cook-off. If you want to rub elbows with the dairy glamoratti, like the hotties from Doe Run, Milkhouse Cheese, Stoudt’s and Birchrun Hills Farm, put on your cologne and coveralls!

Tickets ($10) to the Good Food Feast include entry to the Kimberton Fairgrounds, access to the cheese cave, cooking demos, food trucks, baby animals, and more.

Impromptu cheese night. From bottom left, clockwise: Greensward (Jasper Hills Farm, VT / Murray's Cheese, NYC colab), Tomme Crayeuse (Savoie, France), Comte Saint Antoine (Comte, France), Caveman Blue (Rogue Creamery, OR)

#cheese #cheese plate #foodporn

Seared ahi with a grilled papaya, cucumber, mint slaw Recipe at http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/grilled-tuna-with-grilled-papaya-cucumber-and-mint-recipe.html

#ahi #papaya #summereats #weeknightmeals

Roast Chicken with Potatoes, Asparagus Talk about one-pot meal! The ease by which this dinner came together was only surpassed by how incredibly moist and flavorful it came out. Whole organic farm-raised chicken stuffed with lemon, thyme, butter; seasoned generously with cracked salt and pepper and roasted at high heat over a bed of red potatoes. Asparagus spears roasted in olive oil with a fresh squeeze of lemon. Dinner and done. Recipe adapted from Thomas Keller: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/My-Favorite-Simple-Roast-Chicken-231348

#roast chicken #thomas keller #one pot meals

Back from a long, unintended hiatus. Turns out med school is a time sink-- shocking! Spaghetti with meatballs. Homey, savory, comforting. Let me tell you about the meatballs. Those meatballs-- made of a rustic mix of ground veal, pork and grassfed beef, all bound together with milk-soaked bread and garlic, so much garlic. A hint of lemon zest, generous parsley and oregano for an unexpected freshness. Browned in olive oil then simmered ever so gently in a sweet tomatoey bath indolent with the taste of those end of summer tomatoes. That's the kind of spaghetti and meatballs I got to eat last week. A dream meal. Especially when cooked to perfection to celebrate the completion of my USMLE boards by C, who normally lets me take the limelight in the kitchen. Thank you for taking care of me when I cannot! Recipe from Gourmet Magazine at www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Spaghetti-and-Meatballs-351190

#spaghetti #meatballs #epicurious #gourmet

Jasper Hills cheese plate

Funky, creamy Oma; grassy, sharp Cabot Clothbound; buttery, sweet Bayley Hazen. Paired with fig jam and truffle honey; raisin rosemary crackers and sesame crisps.

(Turns out I must love Jasper Hills, as it was wholly unintentional that each of these very different but delicious cheeses hearkened from the same cheesemakers!)

#cheese #jasperhill #dibrunos #cheeseventure #medschoolentertaining

Beach feast: grilled langoustines, clams, skirt steak, sausages, swordfish

And my pup running in the surf and lounging in the sand. What a way to ring in the end of summer!

#beachweekend #puppy #beachfeast #clambake

Grilled veggie salad

Product of our bountiful harvest from Linvilla: eggplants (japanese, white, fairytale, rosa bianca), zucchini, yellow squash, anaheim peppers. Grilled and tossed with fresh herbs and a nuoc mam dressing over rice. Recipe here.

#farmtotable #grilledveggies #salad #delicious #foodporn #healthy