Valentine's cheese trolley
The cheese trolley is an institution in France, a strong symbol of our cultural and culinary patrimony, a national pride! Since 2007, I trusted Valentine Roy with mine, first at the Relais Gourmand *** then, after it closed, she convinced me to keep it at the Coquillage, focusing on Normandy and Brittany cheeses.
We work with seven small producers who are committed to quality, as I am for every detail at Maisons de Bricourt, so it was obvious that our cheeses needed to rise to the same quality requirements.
Valentine searched for the best cheeses of the region and met passionate people, producers who are invested in getting beautiful products, diverse cheeses in their character and tastes. The organic farm camembert of the “Domaine du Champ Secret” is Valentine’s favourite right now! Creamy, powerful but with no bitterness with a silky rind, it is an authentic camembert in which the region and craft can fully express themselves. More surprising, nettle cheddar! This atypical story of an English cheese, made in Brittany by an Australian was very interesting to me. Erika Hicks produces this cheese with a very vegetal and soft taste, obtained with Normandy cows fed exclusively with organic nettle !
I like to discover the cheeses in their simplicity, without artifice, so that their aroma can freely express themselves. But Valentine likes to think of pairings like this apple jelly with a hint of cardamom for the cheeses from Normandy that is extraordinary, between tradition and imagination… There is also fresh fig and blue cheese from the Darley family, a pairing that can seem simple but that goes back in time as the milk used to be curdled with fig leaves… And there are, of course, the chutneys! The tomato chutney for a fresh goat cheese or the Saint Malo chutney with a livarot!
We work with seven small producers who are committed to quality, as I am for every detail at Maisons de Bricourt, so it was obvious that our cheeses needed to rise to the same quality requirements.
Valentine searched for the best cheeses of the region and met passionate people, producers who are invested in getting beautiful products, diverse cheeses in their character and tastes. The organic farm camembert of the “Domaine du Champ Secret” is Valentine’s favourite right now! Creamy, powerful but with no bitterness with a silky rind, it is an authentic camembert in which the region and craft can fully express themselves. More surprising, nettle cheddar! This atypical story of an English cheese, made in Brittany by an Australian was very interesting to me. Erika Hicks produces this cheese with a very vegetal and soft taste, obtained with Normandy cows fed exclusively with organic nettle !
I like to discover the cheeses in their simplicity, without artifice, so that their aroma can freely express themselves. But Valentine likes to think of pairings like this apple jelly with a hint of cardamom for the cheeses from Normandy that is extraordinary, between tradition and imagination… There is also fresh fig and blue cheese from the Darley family, a pairing that can seem simple but that goes back in time as the milk used to be curdled with fig leaves… And there are, of course, the chutneys! The tomato chutney for a fresh goat cheese or the Saint Malo chutney with a livarot!