blue cheese - any suggestions?

[LisaS]

we've always liked blue cheese dressing but lately our favorite brand has seemed skimpy on the chunks - so I bought some Treasure Cove crumbles to add in -
My goodness are they tasty! I had some last night on their own as an after dinner snack - maybe 1/3 oz worth. Sharper would be even better.

so - now that I've discovered blue outside of dressing - what else do you all do with it? Eating it with something salty or a fruit I could see - what else?

[joanneb608]

Hey LisaS,

I love blue cheese too. Out here I've seen it served melted on hamburgers which is good, and just crumbled by itself on a lettuce salad, maybe with an oil vinagrette or something. Another crumbly-type cheese I love is Feta,

OOOOOHHH, I know!! When I lived in the Chicago area, I used to go to an all-night Greek diner once in awhile and they made THE BEST Feta cheese omelets! I'll bet you could do the same, really well, with blue cheese too.:)

If I think of anything else here in Cheese Country, I'll add it later.:rolleyes:

[Gaelen]

Lisa, Gourmet or Epicurious had a recipe for blue cheese soup. I know it sounds overpowering, but it wasn't. I can't find it on this machine's recipes area, but if you Google blue cheese soup, it should turn up.

Gaelen, who will make soup out of anything

[LisaS]

that sounds great ! I don't think I've found that one yet but a few minutes have turned up a Cauliflower & Blue soup and a Leek & Stilton soup.

[Mitra]

We add it to a bechamel or cream & stock sauce for chicken, steak or pork.

It also goes especially well with pears. I like to have walnuts with it, too.

And sometimes I mix it with some cream cheese and slightly sauteed celery & walnuts, and stuff mushrooms with it (then bake for about 20 mins). I did have a recipe for this up on the old board - can't remember if I copied it over here.

[Bogie]

What to do with it?

Throw it away... It's gone bad - moldy and all that...

[Inez]

I love blue cheese. My favorite blue cheese dressing: 4 oz blue cheese, 1/4 c sour cream, 1/4 c mayonaise, 1/3 c olive oil, 1 tbs white wine vinegar, 1 tsp prepared mustard and salt and pepper to taste. This is serious blue cheese dressing. The stuff in the bottles will taste like plain mayonaise after you've had this! Sometimes I add in some Worchestershire, too. I use this as a sauce on plain broiled chicken or pork chops or hamburgers. Also good on spinach, broccoli or cauliflower. If I have plain leftover pork chops and plain cauliflower, I mix them together and add some blue cheese dressing for a casserole. This is also good with cheddar cheese sauce.

[jkmfrog]

Favorite uses for blue cheese:

add to burger mix (blue cheese and bacon in burger is the best!)

top any salad, great with vinagrette dressings and lc fruits

hunters spread: softened cream cheese, shredded cheddar, blue cheese, softened butter, touch of worsteshire (dang, I just can't spell that one!) sauce, pepper, mixed together. Great spread on celery, veggies, crackers, cracker substitutes. This is a great holiday spread - you can mound it up and decorate with nuts.

pear and blue chesse and carmelized onion mini tarts - pear is a bit high in carbs and you need a lc tart crust but the combo is great!

[AT22]

Late to the party, but I just made a Cauliflower and Stilton soup (was supposed to be Gorgonzola) last night and it was super tasty. Easy - Cauli cooked in broth with some thyme and onions, add blue cheese (up to a cup) and some creme fraiche and blend. Not too cheesy and filling. MMM!

[maxlharris]

Even later to the party:

Couple fun uses:
Compound butter. Cream a stick of butter, mix in 2-3 ounces of blue cheese crumbles (you want crumb sized crumbles, I think you can handle them a little to get them smaller), maybe a little garlic or something, lump on plastic wrap, roll into something like a stick of butter. Would be very good on steaks and would be very interesting if you are doing corn (in maintenance, maybe?) Would work in other places too.

Roast/Steak stuffing. Something like this:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_32934,00.html
Stuffed Tenderloin Roast. I think you could work something similar with eye of round if you aren't feeling the acquisition of a PSMO Tenderloin (60-90 at Costco).

Last one: I have an infused olive oil that features blue cheese and mission fig. Large raw fig goes about 10ECC.

Whoops, real last one:

Take some figs, cut into pieces. Marry a blue cheese crumble or two to the fig, then wrap with bacon, pancetta, prosciutto, whatever. Grill lightly. I don't have this recipe here at work, but at home in one of the BBQ Bible books. I'm guessing you could maybe bake this in the oven. Nice appetizer if you have upped your carb limit a little.