Tagged with "French cheeses"

This is a cheese you’re unlikely to find outside France. Claousou is a brebis (sheep’s cheese) that comes from Occitanie.

Probably France’s most famous hard cheese that comes from the Massif du Jura.  It’s made from unpasteurised milk from Franche Comté in Eastern France.

A delicious Swiss cheese made from raw milk, Marechal is one our favourites.

France Fromages in the covered market in Les Halles, Tours has over 300 different cheeses.

We’re particularly fond of soft cheeses. The smellier the better for us. Soumaintrain certainly ticks all the boxes.

Well. There’s Chaource and there’s Chaorce. You’ll understand what I mean if you get a really good one. This week we hit the jackpot!

A new cheese to us this week. Vacherousse d’Argental – a rich, smooth and creamy cow’s milk cheese from the Lyon area of France.

The Sein de Nounou appeals to the rather purile British sense of humour. It’s a rather delightful local goats’ cheese from the Cher.

I was introduced to Maroilles cheese by my first French au pair Marie 22 years ago. She came from Tourcoing near Lille and Maroilles was her local cheese.

Made from raw milk in the Haute Garonne department in the south of France, the goat’s have roamed freely among the garrigue (the dense scrubland found in Mediterranean regions covered with wild plants and herbs).

We were delighted to find a local cow’s milk cheese that’s produced just half an hour away from us. Petit Troo is going to make a regular appearance!

Valençay is one of the most famous cheeses from the Loire valley. A goat’s cheese shaped like a truncated pyramid the story goes that …