cheese... french cheese... chavre to be exact

MISSING good cheese
is a terrible thing..
now here in the States we have
the glorious Cheddar..
yes, it can be.. or so I am told...
gotten in the UK
but it was next to impossible for me to find in France..
and we like it a whole lot..
but more than a nice white sharp cheddar...
more than baby mozzarella balls all dolled up in olive oil, garlic, fresh basil, roma tomato's &  freshly ground black pepper....
MORE than brie...
more, yes more than cambret...
and all of that...
shocking I realize...
But more than it all
is the lovely world of
Chavre
a gorgeous French goat cheese...
now I confess ours here in the States is good..
not NEARLY as amazing as the cheese man's
when I would walk to the market in Lyon every day to get a new little pat...
but ours IS good...
just..
well...
one OUGHT to be HONEST...
it isn't nearly AS good as ALL THAT...
all that back in France...
where they make it fresh every day or what ever...
so...
anyways...
I have had it plain...
just sort of smeared on crackers, or bread... warm french bread is the best..

I have had it rolled in cracked peppercorns and crushed garlic...
and all sorts of ways..
my favorite way to serve it
is what I call
Lovely Log...
(I will check to see if I have the recipe on here for you)
but basically it is smothered in
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
ooooodles of garlic (way way way more than your wildest dreams)
freshly cracked black pepper
tons of basil... chopped fresh (a variety, basil flowers too if in season!)
AND
ripe, rich, red tomato, chopped small and inviting you to feast...
along with finely chopped chives....
anyways.. thats about it..
it looks amazing..
it tastes amazing..
it IS amazing...
and you eat if on crackers or garlic bread crisps.... oooo ooo ooo

I also make a Volcano... that's another terrific recipe.. hmm
you eat it with tortilla chips! yummy

so
do you GET that I like... LOVE this cheese?
hmmm
Well..
this Friday night
my husbands company had their annual Company Christmas Party...
and there it was ... along with the standards... and some yummy exceptions..
there was your plain colby...\
there was a fun monteray pepper jack (love that spicy kick)
a plain chedder
a sharp chedder
a gouda
a swiss
a brie  (nice)
a blue
and Chavre rolled in something new...
dill and some other stuff...
so I carefully, gracefully slice a tiny bit off and smear it onto my cracker...
and take a nibble...
I chose a water cracker so my palate could just focus on the cheese...
I tasted dill... which I don't often like in that amount...
I tasted chives...
I tasted it then... spicey... spice-E wow!
BAM
what that was... I am not sure..
but I grabbed a plate and casually looked about and wacked off a hunk of THAT cheese...
snagged some crackers and went to sit and figure it out...

Claudia noticed...
she is a Blue girl...
she never heard of Chavre...
she grabbed some for herself...
she went back and grabbed some more...
then I did..

it was ....
delicious...
simply... and unexpectadly delcious

On a mission...
I must create a recipe to match
to equal
or surpass
THAT...
wow....

anyways...
just HAD to share :)