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Winter Warmers

Winter is truly here and cooking with cheese is one of our favourite ways to warm up.  A super easy and effective recipe is the Baked Camembert and there are many many ways to pull off this dish! Firstly think of the flavours you wish to enhance the cheese with... think of the serving size and how many people you are catering and then follow our baking guide below: A ripe cheese will need less baking time... so if a cheese is soft when squeezed gently, and has a slight aroma through the packaging, the cheese should be on its way to being ripe...  A mild young cheese will need to be baked further... so a firm Camembert is likely...

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Ricotta at Home

Cooking Ricotta at Home Recipe: Equipment & Ingredients: 2 Litres of un-homogenised milk Medium sized pot Colander/strainer and a bowl for drips Slotted Spoon Vinegar 50ml Cool boiled water (straight from your kettle) 25-30ml Thermometer Salt, to taste Method: Heat 2 litres of milk on your hot plate, stirring gently until the temperature reaches 90.C. Stirring prevents the milk from burning on the base of the pan. Swiftly stir in approximately 50mls of vinegar diluted with 50 mls of water. This will cause the milk to coagulate and the curd to rise to the surface. Allow pot to sit for about 30 seconds. Scoop the curds from the surface with a slotted spoon and put into your colander (have your...

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Baked Camembert Pithivier

A collaboration with Carême Pastry Prep: 10 min (plus 20 minute chill time) | Cook: 35 min | Serves: 4 Ingredients: 1 (375g packet) Carême All Butter Puff Pastry, defrosted 200g Barossa Valley Cheese Co. Barossa Camembert 1 egg, beaten Side salad, to serve Fresh baguette, to serve. Method: Preheat oven to 200.C. Unroll the pastry, place it onto a lightly dusted work surface, then dust with flour. Cut the pastry into two circles, one 17cm in diameter and one 21cm in diameter. Place the camembert onto the centre of the 17cm circle and brush the pastry edges with beaten egg. Lay the large pastry disc on top, then seal the edges by crimping well with the tines of a...

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Winter Warmers with Heart Kids

HeartKids Winter Warmer Packs National Cheese & Wine Day 25th July 2020   For one month starting on National Cheese and Wine Day (25th July 2020) you can buy a HeartKids Winter Warmer Cheese and Wine pack.    The packs are $100 each and includes a bottle of shiraz, cheese and crackers delivered to your door, and the great part is that $35 from each pack goes straight to HeartKids! This is everything you need for a great night in!   This promotion is supported by two great Barossa Valley companies - The Barossa Valley Cheese Company and Tim Smith Wines.     This offer is now finished. Please stay tuned for our next collab with HeartKids.

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Colouring In Competition! July 2020

WIN WIN WIN!!   Be in the running to win a Barossa Cheese Classic Takeaway box... ready to collect and hit the Angaston Adventure Playground!   All you need to do, is print out our colouring in page, get creative... send it back (digital or by hand) and you will go into the running.   We have 2 categories... - 7 years and under - 8 and up!   Get creative, get colouring and all entries must be in by July 31st. Winners will by drawn on August 1st and packs must be collected from the Cheesecellar in Angaston at an arranged time.   Got to be in it to win it! Download PDF here. 

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