Bread & Cheese

The girlfriend is in town for a short visit and had her husband pack a block of heavy cheese into his luggage for us. So the precious package I picked up the other night is the Eke Geitost (or Eke Gjetost) from Tine, and a prized homemade loaf of dense beer-spiced raisin bread that smelt heavenly. "Best eaten fresh," she instructed.

In honor of the girlfriend's gifts, we decided to have bread and cheese with soup for dinner. These gifts would be best complemented with additional flavors. The man would be stuck in the office till 9pm, so it was up to me to prep the food. Clearly, I wasn't going to cook. So take-out it had to be. In addition to these, I bought a wedge of Gruyère, another loaf of pumpkin bread, pâté, a tub of basil pesto hummus, 2 soups of curried pumpkin and wild mushroom.

Eke Gjetost is a firm, nutty and almost sweet brown cheese made from goat's milk. It's got a slight caramel hint that suggests people eat this at breakfast. Anyway, we ate it at dinner! It went beautifully with both loaves of bread. Awesome. The extra items only lent the excitement to the tasting. The focus was the beer-spiced raisin bread. So everything should complement it, even the hummus. The soups were pretty good and gave a hearty note to the meal. We finished the pumpkin bread. It took alot of discipline not to gobble up the bread the girlfriend had made. We left a quarter to savor the next day. She has indeed made some tasty bread!

Light yet filling, it was an absolutely gorgeous dinner. The man was most pleased. Soup, cheese and bread. Totally right up my list of favorite meal items. LOVES. Tusen takk!! Now, we owe her and husband (and boys?) a dinner after they're back from vacation. The man's wondering about menu items and dates. Let me see how we should do this, or potluck over. Woooohooo.