NWR: Scharfer Max Cheese is Crazy Delicious

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Yule Kim

Yule Kim
I am not a raw milk cheese aficionado, but I just had some Scharfer Max cheese (I bought it in the Bits n' Ends bin at Whole Foods on a whim) and it was crazy delicious. It tasted like a slightly muted durian with its weird, savory funkiness. Apparently it is from Switzerland and made in the Thurgau region. A very welcome surprise for my Tuesday dinner (though I promptly brushed my teeth afterwards).

Good stuff, and that is my tasting note for the week.
 
originally posted by Yule Kim: A very welcome surprise for my Tuesday dinner (though I promptly brushed my teeth afterwards).
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What else did you eat? And what did you drink?

I'm guessing you weren't drinking wine if you were so quick to jump to toothpaste.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by Yule Kim: A very welcome surprise for my Tuesday dinner (though I promptly brushed my teeth afterwards).
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What else did you eat? And what did you drink?

I'm guessing you weren't drinking wine if you were so quick to jump to toothpaste.
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Actually it was just the cheese with some bread and some olives. A little San Pellegrino on the side. I'm trying to slim down after the holidays.

But that cheese was something.
 
You might want to re-think bread and cheese as the path towards slimming down. But then again I don't know what you used to eat!
 
By slimming down, I mean I am trying to eat fewer cookies and cakes. Cheese and bread really don't affect me, especially when I'm eating one roll and a half ounce of cheese for dinner.

And yes, I did a quasi-paleo diet during the summer to slim down last summer. I basically just perimeter shop around the edges of the supermarket and avoid food in the aisles (with some exceptions like tea and olive oil). Not a full paleo diet since I still eat whole wheat breads and yogurt, but I find sticking to whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and eggs tend to do the trick for me. I was eating a lot when I was doing this, I never felt hungry, and I ended up losing thirty some odd pounds over 6 months.

But, of course, I was also swimming 2500 meters three days a week and running 3 or 4 miles in the mornings during my off days, which helps with weight loss. But, the winter blahs and several colds have hurt my cardio regime considerably.
 
Yes it is the combination of the two: diet and exercise. I lost 25lbs in 2 months on paleo (strict) and crossfit, but nothing at all, on crossfit alone. And like you said, no problem at all in eating as much as you want. I just miss - make that MISS - the sweets, unfortunately.
 
originally posted by Yule Kim: I basically just perimeter shop around the edges of the supermarket and avoid food in the aisles (with some exceptions like tea and olive oil).
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That's not a diet. That's just eating.

But it does depend on your supermarket.

Fairway in Nyc doesn't really have 'center aisles'.
 
A diet isn't just eating less food. It can also be changing the type of food you eat. As Christi noted, the Paleo diet doesn't require you to reduce the amount of food you eat; it just requires that you change the type of food you eat. I think the same is true of Atkins, South Beach, Ornish, etc..

And, yeah, instead of straight cardio, I have been doing Crossfit stuff, like kettlebells and other free weights. Christi, do you do the WOTD? Those are really intense.

Unfortunately, the holidays have caused me to overload on sweets, so right now I am trying to stop by eating more nuts and fruits (although I did bring a couple of boxes of Mallomars back down to DC).
 
originally posted by Yule Kim:
A diet isn't just eating less food. It can also be changing the type of food you eat.
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I know. But my point was that the cliche about avoiding the center aisles of the supermarket is just normal eating. It's eating the freakish 'food' from the center that constitutes the bizarro reality.

I really like the Japanese take on these issues. Americans (and Westerners in general) would often compliment them on their cuisine being so 'healthy' and they would respond that their cuisine is sensible normal food (easy to say when it's your own) and that the Western diet was the bizarre unhealthy diet.

Of course there are issues with sodium for some Japanese folks but the principle is one I always enjoyed.
 
Yule, yes I go to a box 4 times a week and do the box's program. 1 year and a half now. It is PERFECT. Very hard but scaled to your strength and mobility. If you want details let me know.
 
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