Chavez Cheese Tips
& Recipe
By Maralyn Hill and Brenda Hill
‘The Tandem Tasters’

By now our readers are well aware of how much the Tandem Tasters (Cheese Queens) love cheese. We call cheese our non-guilty pleasure, because of the healthful qualities in many cheeses. Last year we must have tasted almost every cheese from around the world at Bocuse d' Or in Lyon. Fortunately, we managed to walk more than we consumed!

Here are a few tips for one of our favorites 'Chavez':
(Chavez is a mild, silky, and creamy goat cheese).

• Add a generous dollop to tomato, basil bisque. This is a delectable change from sour cream.

• Add goat cheese to your party dip for a tangy twist.

• 'The Tandem Tasters' also devours pizza! We like it homemade and cheesy with thin crust. Even if we order it out, we add crumbles of goat cheese to the top at the end and broil it for less than a minute. 

• Quiche Lorraine, made the day before, is a good brunch idea. We used to make quiche with Swiss, Gruyere or both. Now we add brie or goat cheese for more zest.

• Add goat cheese to your baked or loaded potato, along with some chives or green onions, for extra pizzazz.

Our easy recipe for an open faced (French grilled cheese) sandwich:
Top a slice of French bread with a generous slice of goat cheese.
Add cooked bacon slices or crumbles and place under broiler until golden and bubbling.
You can substitute a tomato slice for the bacon. Our team likes both.
Served with a green salad this is a good lunch or Sunday night supper.