Christmas Cheese Balls

This Christmas time we offer you a recipe to prepare a cold-snack dish with cheese that everyone will love.

The cheese ball is traditional for this time of the year and it´s also very easy to make.

Source: Chris Buecheler in Flickr

INGREDIENTS

• 2 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, softened.
• 2 cups (8 ounces) shredded sharp cheese, Golden Label (Gold Medall of World Cheese Awards 2010)
• 1 tablespoon finely chopped onion.
• 1 tablespoon diced Green peppers.
• 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce.
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice.
• Chopped toasted pecans (as much as you want).
• Chopped toasted almonds (ídem).
• Finely chopped dehydrated pineapple or apricot.
• Assorted crackers.

DIRECTIONS

In a large bowl, combine all the ingredients but the pecans, almonds and fruits. Shape into three balls. If you see them too little you can just shape them into two or add more quantity of all the ingredients.

Once everything is well mixed, roll each ball in the pecans, almonds or fruits. Make sure the cheese ball is well covered and let it chill.

Whenever you want to serve the balls, we suggest you to remove them from the refrigerator 15 minutes before.

Serve with crackers and enjoy!

On Christmas time we don´t forget about you and would like you to don´t forget about us. Let´s share the same table and have us with you. It´s easy through our online store or web.

MERRY CHEESEMAS!

WORLD CHEESE AWARDS 2012

Source: BBC Good Foof Show

For the first time in history a cheese from Aragon, Spain has been selected as one of the TOP 16 Best Cheeses in the World. That happened in the annual and international contest celebrated in Birmingham (UK) the last November 28th.

More tan 3000 cheeses from 33 different countries have come to this last edition of 2012.

Joaquin Alpuente and Alberto Asensio pose with the winner cheeses.

One more year, we come back home with more prizes and recognitions to our job. It makes us really happy to know that our daily effort is reflected on the quality of what we produce, which is appreciated by the best cheese experts in the world.

This way we want to let all the people know that any time they tasted or bought one of our cheeses, they were bringing the best quality to their homes. This fact fulfil us with joy and we can´t do another thing other than celebrating and sharing our happiness with you.

The kinds of cheese awarded this year were:

• One SuperGold medal for the soft Blue Label Cheese. It was in the TOP 16 previously mentioned.

Under the category Ewes Milk 51

• One Gold medal for our delicious Wine Cheese.

We present here the sign of the Super Golds Top 16 that´s on the website of the WORLD CHEESE AWARDS.

Cheeses Sierra de Albarracín keeps on celebrating awards, but what´s most important, we celebrate a constant increasing of the sales since 2 years ago, when we won the first  gold medal in the WCA 2010.

Twelve hardworking people make this dream possible in spite of the Spanish crisis and we grow together with our clients needs.

Our sales forecast for 2013 tells us that we will reach our break even point. That is a production of 70.000 Kilos (155.000 lb) from which a 20% goes to foreign markets: United Kingdom, Japan, Holland, etc.

Thank you very much for being there and specially for sharing our happiness.

We are waiting for you in Albarracín and also in our website.