Blue Cheese

Whenever I see blue cheese, I always ask "where's the buffalo chicken?" and ask for blue cheese when I see buffalo chicken. Though all people do not eat the two together, they are always paired together on and menu. The dynamic duo can be seen on salads, sanwhiches, pasta, pizza, or alone. I absolutely LOVE all of those buffalo chicken dishes (only if there is blue cheese to top it).

Tonight for dinner I went to a salad bar, at one of the cafeterias on my college campus, and ordered a buffalo chicken salad. The menu specifically said the salad was topped with crumbled blue cheese. WELL, the caferteria ran out of crumbled blue cheese! The women asked me if a ranch dressing substitute would be okay. I said yes. But, was was I thinking??? After eating that salad I realized it was not a good substitute. I wanted my blue cheese.

I went back to the salad bar and order another buffalo chicken salad. I told the women I did not want ranch dressing. She then told me again that they ran out of crumbled blue cheese. Then she told me they had blue cheese dressing in the back. Why didn't she tell me that before???

Well that got me thinking about blue cheese and blue cheese dressing.
BLUE CHEESE= aged cheese (usually in a cave) that accumulates streaks of mold that give it a "tangy" distinct taste; the longer it ages, the tangier it tastes.
BLUE CHEESE DRESSING= a runny paste with a crumbled blue cheese base; some dressings are made to taste like blue cheese, but do not contain actual blue cheese... they do NOT taste the same!

For more facts check out this site... http://www.foodsubs.com/Cheblue.html

For those of you who have never tried blue cheese, I urger you to! Don't let the word "mold" or the greenish/blueish color scare you! If you don't like it move on and try another cheese! Atleast you can say you gave it a try.