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Recipes Using Artisan Cheese

Small-batch artisan cheeses cover the wide, wonderful world of cheese-making. The recipes here each take one of two approaches. One kind is a flexible recipe that allows the cook to experiment with different cheeses; the other calls for a specific artisan cheese and highlights its specific flavors and texture. Enjoy!

Caprese Salad

Caprese salad is a delicious tomato mozzarella salad and couldn't be easier to make.

Blue Cheese Dressing

This homemade blue cheese dressing is easy and fast to make, plus you can use your favorite blue cheese--from mild and creamy to pungent and crumbly.

Blueberry Blue Cheese Spinach Salad

The sweet tang of blueberries is a lovely foil to the sharp tang of blue cheese.

Fava Bean & Pecorino Salad

Fava beans and fresh pecorino cheese are a classic Italian preparation.

Feta & Watermelon Salad

Sweet watermelon and salty feta cheese make a pretty, refreshing summer salad.

Feta Cheese Vinaigrette

This quick Feta Cheese Vinaigrette is perfect on hearty salad greens, drizzled over grilled vegetables, or even as a sauce for broiled or grilled chicken.

Green Garlic Ricotta Gnocchi

These simple ricotta gnocchi are flecked with bits of green garlic, giving them a delicately garlicky scent and flavor.

Cider Onion Soup With Cheese Toasts

This Cider Onion Soup is a twist on traditional French Onion Soup using hard apple cider instead of white wine, whole grain bread instead of baguette, and a bloomy-rind cheese instead of gruyere.

Grown-Up Grilled Cheese Sandwich With Aged Cheddar and Ham

This isn't your mother's grilled cheese! Aged cheddar-style cheese,a slice of ham, and a few sliced pickles on pumpernickel bread pack a lot of flavor with little effort.

Roasted Beets and Feta Salad

Roasting intensifies the sweetness of beets, making them the perfect foil for salty feta cheese in this easy, nutritious composed salad recipe.

Strawberry Hazelnut Goat Cheese Salad

Creamy, sweet, nutty, and tart %u2013 this salad has it all.

Strawberry Ricotta Muffins

These sweet treats are sure to become an addiction.

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