Last week I told of our adventures in Limburger cheese – a cheese that we ordered special from the internet.  This cheese was a much more spur of the moment purchase.  A few weekends ago on our way to the Garlic Festival we visited a local dairy farm.  I mostly just wanted to hang out with the goats, but we also wanted to buy some super fresh cheese.

The cheese is that way guys!

It was really nice there because they had a large selection of fresh cheeses made from cow, sheep, and goat milk.  They also had fresh milk, butter, and eggs.  We spent a really long time in front of the refrigerator case trying to decide which cheese to try.  We probably would have bought more if we’d remembered to bring an insulated bag.  But we didn’t want to risk buying a lot of cheese and having it all go bad sitting in the car all day.  Anyway, after a lot of debate we finally decided to buy the goat’s milk ricotta.

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