When we were back in normal times, my husband and I used to walk up to a local bar on Friday nights. This bar tries to keep local craft beer on tap, so we’d hang out in the bar area and have a good beer (or two!) before we headed over to the Irish pub where we’d have dinner.
On a slow night, we’d be able to find two seats at the bar and I’d be able to partake in one of their other specialties — pub cheese. Now pub cheese is really pretty similar, right? It’s an orange colored soft cheese spread. And who doesn’t like cheese?? (I actually know SO many folks who don’t like cheese — my mother-in-law, a sister-in-law and the son of a good friend to name a few. Frankly, I just don’t understand it.)
Well, this restaurant does something fabulous to their pub cheese — it’s the typical orange color, but they add blue cheese chunks to it and something spicy which I can only guess is horseradish. Now I can’t vouch that this is the actual recipe, but let me just tell you — it’s amazing. It’s cheesy and a little spicy at the same time. I really don’t even need the crackers that they put out in beer glasses on the bar — I could totally just eat the cheese out of the little plastic lidded condiment containers they put it in. (C’mon — I would definitely use a spoon, not my finger.) It’s that good.
Now the pub recently opened back up to do take out orders. My husband and I have been trying to support all the local businesses on Thursday and Friday night by ordering take out (remember, Thursday night is always pizza night!). On the first Friday night this restaurant was open for take out, we ordered sandwiches from them. And I was so excited to see the pub cheese on their take out menu! Of course I had to order it, if only for the nostalgia!
It was listed on their website as a “generous portion” of pub cheese and a sleeve of crackers for $8. I honestly figured they’d give us two little condiment containers and a sleeve of Ritz crackers and call it a night. But I ordered it, because hey, I missed the pub cheese!
When we got back home that night, we opened the take out bag and there was a single serve soup container filled with pub cheese! Like the sized container you get at a cafeteria — there’s plenty of room for soup and all the crackers on top — that’s a 16 oz. container! Well, it’s also plenty of room for pub cheese! The sleeve of crackers only lasted us two nights, but we got four nights out of that pub cheese! And all for $8! There was so much pub cheese that my husband said that they should offer a $4 option. I don’t know what is wrong with him.
That was two weeks ago. We ordered from them again last night and of course I got the pub cheese! Don’t tell anyone, but I had a little bit of it before I went to bed last night. It is that good. I’ll probably dip into it again later.
Notes from a Self Quarantine 