The main thing I have to say about cheese, is that I have a new pet hate: curry houses that put fucking CHEESE (of the non-paneer variety) in their dishes.

There's one place we know that doesn't put paneer in its Sag Paneer - it uses cheddar instead. Which is quite revolting - and the rest of their curry isn't that great anyway, so we don't go there any more. However, recently a new takeaway opened, we found them to be quite nice and have taken to ordering four or five of their vegetable dishes (£2.40 each and decently sized) which does us 3-4 meals. Until the time they sprinkled cheddar on top. Grrrr! It's not every time, but last night it wasn't even cheddar, it was the nasty processed cheese you get in Mcdonald's burgers, melted all over an otherwise tasty paneer jalfrezi.

Now I love cheese, and there's no cheese I won't eat (except maybe the plasticky fake stuff) I also love paneer in Indian dishes. But to add any other cheese to a curry, is wrong and horrible. Despite the otherwise niceness of their food, I'm considering not ordering from there any more. Either that or making them promise my order won't be polluted with inappropriate cheese. Even dgym thinks it's wrong, and he eats supernoodles on pizza.

Stripy cheese

On an more positive cheesy note, I bought stripy cheese (Five Counties) for my lunch this week, and it has to be said, if there's one thing better than cheese, it's stripy cheese.

Northern cheese

Also, Wensleydale is good with Christmas cake, something that never occurred to me before meeting dgym - supposedly it's a Northern thing, his family are a bit more northern than mine, and they've always done it.

Cheese out.