#10 Le mini chevrot

#10 Le mini Chevrot

A bit of French cheese after the Australia fest at the end of last month

The cheese is from the Poitou-Charentes area in south western France.
Goat cheese is a specialty of this area and is fact (according to one random
source on the interweb) a third of French goats call this region home.
Apparently its the area where the French turned back the Moors - but kept their goats.

Le mini chevrot came to us as two small discs (it was a two for one deal at the market) that looked like a pair of mini brains on a plate, which, if you had mispent your youth in the same way I did, immediately brought to mind the Steve Martin classic - "The Man with Two Brains"

The knife revealed  a butter-yellow layer beneath the pale rind and then a white inner core. This was no longer an absurd 80s comedy - it was a delicious cheese.

Le mini chevrot was perfectly ripe - soft but a long way from liquid. The flavour - typically goaty, pungent and salty. A damn fine cheese.

Le mini chevrot was sourced from my regular cheesemongers of choice, Bill's Farm at Queen Victoria Market.