[Sca-cooks] Frying Cheese, or, Thank you Stefan...

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On May 24, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Ana Valdes wrote:

> Stefan or another, can you please post the recipe again? I don't have
> any Spanish groceries near, but I guess it's possible to do the same
> with the Middle East cheeses sold in my Iraqui grocer.
> They sell a cheese in threads, as mozarella but much more "kneaded".
> Maybe we can try with it.
> Thanks in advance!
> Ana

Indian panir is probably the best substitute, although I have no idea  
if you can find that any more easily. Queso Blanco (at least the  
stuff Jadwiga is probably talking about) doesn't really melt, which  
that braided Armenian string cheese with the little nigella seeds in  
it almost certainly will.

Adamantius


>
> On 5/24/06, Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise  
> <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net> wrote:
>> A couple of months back, Stefan posted to this list about "frying
>> cheese" (Queso de/para freir) and that it was unexpectedly good. So I
>> picked some up at the local PriceRite (my source for all really
>> unusually Hispanic groceries, plus some of the cheapest meat around--
>> pork shoulders at .79-.49 / lb)
>> and we tried it. Basically, slice it up and fry it like meat, in a
>> little butter-- no breading or anything. Good breakfast food or late
>> night snack.
>>
>> The Picky Child likes it. The Picky (male) Roommate likes it. We all
>> like it. It's easy to make and very yummy-- though it does make a  
>> wierd
>> squeaking noise on your teeth... We go through a small block about  
>> every
>> week. And it's safe for the most likely diet people in our house  
>> are on.
>>
>> Thank you, Stefan.
>>
>> Now, does anyone know of period references to anything like this?
>>
>> --
>> -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
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