Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cindy Hamilton Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Blue cheese dip. Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 13:30:03 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <67cb2152$12$13$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Reply-To: hamilton@invalid.com Injection-Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:30:04 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="677a79333e09da4b23801067a8880d3f"; logging-data="801742"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19icCVhgeY4IECfBy0wrKtKDkGT9wN6J/M=" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jrXb5IFspE7bSdgKbfkjJ+iNwqE= Bytes: 2189 On 2025-03-09, songbird wrote: > Cindy Hamilton wrote: > ... >> People like to use blue cheese of one sort or another as an >> ingredient. Everybody's different. > > they do, but often it makes no sense to me. > > like i used to try it in different dishes, but found > that for the most part when melted and included in > other things it had very little of the flavor or > sharpness that i liked about it. so i stopped wasting > it that ways and only have it cold in things i want it > to be prominent in. salad dressing and crumbled on top > right at serving is now how i do it. I don't like blue cheese at all. My husband only likes it cold. > i don't know if anyone else notices or cares about > this sort of issue, but i sure do since it is a fairly > expensive item. Perhaps people like the mellowing effect of combining it with other ingredients. And, of course, not everybody cares that it's "fairly expensive". The store brand is about $12/pound. Stilton at Amazon is about $25/pound. Gorgonzola is about the same price at various places. -- Cindy Hamilton