Comes from: cows
Purchased at: Rouses
$15.69/lb
I'm on an away rotation right now which keeps me out of my NOLA apartment Thursday mornings to Monday afternoons; of that time, I'm in the hospital Thursday to Friday (call), Saturday until early afternoon (precall), and Sunday to Monday (call again). Luckily I've got Tuesday off, and the hospital unexpectedly gave me Wednesday as a conference day, so it's like a little mid-week weekend. And what better way to start the weekend than cheese?This cheese, then. This cheese, I purchased at Rouses before I left for Houma, and it's been in my refrigerator all week, and when I get home from call, no matter what I have eaten during call or in the hours since (in my car, cough cough), I am *ravenous*. Such is the power of sleep deprivation. So this cheese is in the fridge, and I ate it. And it was good, because it was made of cheese. It was not great: It was not particularly flavorful, which is odd because I may have eaten it before and criticized it for being too spicy.
(Thoughts on that: (1) It may not actually *be* the same cheese, because that cheese was labeled "picante" and this one wasn't, but we have already discussed Rouses' labeling practices in this column and found them lacking. I swear I purchased a Humboldt Fog the other week that was nothing of the sort. (2) This cheese was just out of the refrigerator -- I know, scandalous! but see: hungry -- and the other cheese wasn't, giving it time to defrost and... flavor up, so to speak.)
Anyway. There is nothing like being home. Home is where the cheese is! And also my bed.
