I love the last rays of summer and early Autumn, and I plan to keep eating outdoors as long as possible. Especially, if that involves cheese!
Today, I’m holding a picnic at Little Shoal Bay for my wedding anniversary; a simple celebratory picnic with bubbles and all the necessary bits and pieces thrown into a wicker basket and just set it up on some Turkish towels in the great outdoors. I sometimes do this somewhere such as North Head in Devonport, or a beach such as Little Shoal Bay, which is exactly where we’ve headed today and the weather has shown up beautifully.
For my picnic, I packed fresh bread, olives, bruschetta, and blue cheese from Castello – whom I’m delighted to be working with as it’s a brand I have eaten for years myself and it’s actually the leading blue cheese in New Zealand, so I’m not alone. Their blue is the most popular in the Castello range of Danish crafted cheeses.
I love blue cheese; how, like love, it’s tender at first then has a sharp bitterness with a sweet aftertaste. I pair it with a variety of things both sweet and savoury such as apples, seeded crackers, and toasted bread, but why not get more adventurous and try it with green veges, in a pear and cos lettuce salad, with walnuts, and teamed with beer as they do in Europe, where Castello originated over a hundred years ago.
Castello Blue is a rich Danish creamy texture cheese, studded with sharp salty veins of feisty blue. It comes in a half moon shape in a size that’s perfect for sharing at barbecues and parties, and is available in all good supermarkets nationwide.
Cheers, everyone!
By Megan Robinson
2nd April 2018
Post brought to you by Castello Cheese, all photographs and opinions are my own.