Question about cheese.

[Trinitis]

I know there are a few posters here with a hispanic background, and I've got a question directed twords them.

Near the new place I live, there is a place we (my friends and I) fondly refer to as the taco truck. The have the BEST damn tacos and burritos EVAR.

Anyways, they uses this cheese I've never tasted before, but I love it! Its a white cheese that tastes nothing like american. It has a much softer texture then american cheese.

Does anyone know what this stuff is? I'm guessing its a common cheese used in hispanic cooking? Cause they use it on all their foods that have cheese on it.

Hm... a white cheese, I DUNNO.

But dulce de leche is the shits.

[Trinitis]

Originally posted by Stanley Burrell
Hm... a white cheese, I DUNNO.

But dulce de leche is the shits.


Dulce de leche? :) I know next to nothing about the hispanic language or culture (even though I live in a place chalk full of it.) Anime and my love for Japanese culture is to blame on that :P

[CrystalTears]

You would need to say what exactly you're eating that has the white cheese.

Dulce de leche is basically caramel, and it's awesome. I believe it's Haagen-Daz (Oh my god I so butchered that name) that makes dulce de leche ice cream. It rocks.

[Trinitis]

It was a chicken burrito. HUGE FAT burrito I might add. It had chicken (it almost looked BBQ'ed, but did not taste it) lettuce, rice, and that white cheese, with sour cream.

[Back]

I know the kind of cheese you mean... I just don’t know the name of it. Queso something. Has a tofu consitancy and look to it until you slice it or melt it. Like a softer jack/mozerella.

[Trinitis]

Originally posted by Backlash
I know the kind of cheese you mean... I just don’t know the name of it. Queso something. Has a tofu consitancy and look to it until you slice it or melt it. Like a softer jack/mozerella.

Yeh! But it don't taste anything like mozerella! Its flavor is extremely mellow, and nearly impossible to taste when combined with stuff like sour cream..

[Tsa`ah]

Thanks ass ... now I have to drive for 30 minutes to get a La Bamba's burrito.

[Trinitis]

Originally posted by Tsa`ah
Thanks ass ... now I have to drive for 30 minutes to get a La Bamba's burrito.

LOL. But its SO good..

[peam]

I'm pretty sure that cheese is just fine-grated mozzarella.

Edit - Yeah, I'm going to have to order Mexican tonight too.

[Edited on 10-24-2004 by peam]

[CrystalTears]

It's just called "queso blanco" meaning white cheese. It's a soft, mellow cheese, kinda like the texture of goat cheese but not really. I love that. I used to eat that with guava all the time. Damn, now I'll have to make sure my grandmother has some when I go to visit during the holidays.

Originally posted by CrystalTears
You would need to say what exactly you're eating that has the white cheese.

Dulce de leche is basically caramel, and it's awesome. I believe it's Haagen-Daz (Oh my god I so butchered that name) that makes dulce de leche ice cream. It rocks.

OMG, OMG!

The Haagen-Daaz Dulce De leche is not the real business.

OMG OMG!

:rant:

[Faent]

These are good bets. The cheese you're looking for is likely a soft or semi-soft mexican melting cheese. But why not just ask the people in the taco truck?

queso oaxaca
queso chihuahua (menonita)
queso blanco
queso fresco

-Scott

[Trinitis]

Originally posted by Faent
These are good bets. The cheese you're looking for is likely a soft or semi-soft mexican melting cheese. But why not just ask the people in the taco truck?

queso oaxaca
queso chihuahua (menonita)
queso blanco
queso fresco

-Scott

Because the only english they understand is Taco, Burrito, and the numbers 1-10

:P


Really REALLY nice people. Old man and lady. But they don't speak a lick of english, and I don't speak a lick of spanish ;)

[Nieninque]

Halumi cheese is the business
Grilled
Yum...

[Jorddyn]

Originally posted by LordAdredrin

Originally posted by Faent
These are good bets. The cheese you're looking for is likely a soft or semi-soft mexican melting cheese. But why not just ask the people in the taco truck?

queso oaxaca
queso chihuahua (menonita)
queso blanco
queso fresco

-Scott

Because the only english they understand is Taco, Burrito, and the numbers 1-10

:P


Really REALLY nice people. Old man and lady. But they don't speak a lick of english, and I don't speak a lick of spanish ;)

Umm...

Que tipo de queso es este?

I think? I'm sure someone will tell me if I'm wrong.

Of course, then you have to figure out what they're saying in response.

Jorddyn, extremely rusty Spanish

[SpunGirl]

Guys, it's goat cheese. If you've ever been to Mexcio, they serve it on EVERYTHING. You can buy in the grocery store in the deli sections in logs. It's mushy. It's uber good. I have good goat cheese recipies, and I don't even like to cook.

-K

[Betheny]

Originally posted by Stanley Burrell
Hm... a white cheese, I DUNNO.

But dulce de leche is the shits.

omg, nasty.

sweet milk. GAG.

[Back]

I like goat milk. I don’t like that weird crumbly Greek goat cheese though.

[Betheny]

Feta cheese is really nasty. Mild goat cheese isn't so bad, though. I'm down with cheese in p retty much any form it comes in. I even recently learned to eat blue cheese. Well, if it's not actually blue. Blue cheese dressing is pretty good though.

WTF was I talking about again? :scared:

[SpunGirl]

Goat cheese isn't crumbly, it's mushy. Feta and bleu cheese crumbles.

-K

[Latrinsorm]

Nacho cheese goes with everything. Nachos, tacos, any chips, french fries, chocolate pudding, hot dogs, cake, pretzels, ice cream, chicken...

So hungry. :(:(:(

[Trinitis]

I'd also like to point out that this taco truck has grown in stock once again.


Home made Tamales are the FUCKIN BOMB!!

Edit to add :

Though they seem kinda dry. Are you suposed to add something to them after you take them out of the corn husk shell thing?

[Edited on 10-25-2004 by LordAdredrin]

[Betheny]

I hate you.

I love tamales.

best tamales I ever ate in my life were from some tiny Cuban joint in Fort Meyers, FL. I can't find Cuban food around DC. It makes me cry myself to sleep at night...