What Is Quark Cheese? A Creamy, Slightly Tart Fresh Cheese

[1] Quark can be eaten like yogurt or used as a bread spread and in recipes (photo © Vermont Creamery). [2] Pancakes with savory garnish: Quark cheese and marinated cherry tomatoes. Here’s the recipe (photos #2, #4, #5, and #8 © Wisconsin Cheese). [3] American style, creamy quark from Vermont Creamery (photo by Claire Freierman…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Salad With Goat Cheese

Salad with a creamy, fresh goat cheese crottin, halved. Photo courtesy Vermont Creamery, one of America’s greatest producers of goat cheese. Read our review.   Whenever we see a goat cheese salad on a menu (chèvre is the French word), we order it. Typically served with mesclun or frisée, sometime with beets, sometime with toasted…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Try Whole Wheat Flour For Baking

Snack on raisin walnut bread made with the more nutritious whole wheat flour. Photo courtesy U.S. Apple Association.   For some reason, a lot of people don’t like the idea of whole wheat. They think that refined white flour tastes better. But whole wheat is more flavorful in a good way—not to mention much more…
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