Yesterday I Considered Cheese

I got to spend the whole day with my baby girl yesterday. She and I drove to Jacksonville to share milk, cheese, banana bread and some home made pecan brittle with her aunt and uncle, Jane and Tony Peacock. Tony is a great encouragement and a staunch supporter of this milk maverick endeavor. Our time with him and the family was just too short, but I had other things to accomplish and I was already running late. 

Side trail here -- I really hate being late to any appointment, but I also try to be flexible in my crazy life. Yesterday, because I wanted to share the freshest milk possible, I stopped by the barn and bottling room on the way out of town. Second side trail here -- there were some quality issues with the last labels that were ordered for Wainwright Dairy and Creamery, so pieces of them would end up in the bottom of my cooler and they did not leave a good impression. The new and better labels arrived Tuesday. When I entered the bottling room there was lots going on and rather than grab and go I helped replace some labels on a few cases of half gallon "calf milk." Alas, this was the reason for me running late.

Marissa and I did have a few minutes apart when she stayed with my friend and restaurant owner,
Ron Fedele, at his lunch place Judson's. She just adores his grilled salmon sandwich and she hopes to display her art on his walls in the near future. Ron and I became fast friends after being introduced by my husband back in 2008. Love of travel, good scotch, and great food always gives us plenty to discuss when we have the opportunity to see one another. No time for talk yesterday though, I could not let any grass grow under my feet; I was working from a list.


After completing most of my errands and deliveries, we stopped in to a wonderful new business to which I am sure to return, The Grater Goods Cheese and Charcuterie. This is a cheese shop owned and operated by Jennifer Harvey, at 1080 Edgewood Ave. Marissa chose an aged gouda, made in Thomasville, GA and I decided on half a pound of a sublime stilton that was infused with mango. It is my hope that we might do a bit of business with each other, but I know I will definitely stop in when I am visiting in Jacksonville.

Later in the day we went to TacoLu  and you can read more of my thoughts about our choices at  http://milkmaverick.yelp.com   What I wanted to mention here was how very good the queso was. That queso was a perfect consistency, had great flavor and was topped with these wonderful little pepitas. We had Ghazi bring us another order of it, after we finished our tacos, to enjoy with chips while we finished our Margaritas. Those happy hour margaritas were so yummy. Marissa and Alex had planned to just drink water, but after one taste of mine it was "bring us all a round."

Just thought I would share. Until Later ~ Rita