Neighborly Neighbors

When new tenants moved in across the hall from me at the beginning of August, I wanted to make friends. And so, like always when I want the make an impression, I made brownies. Two weeks later, the couple returned the Tupperware... filled with tomatoes and cheese. The orange tomatoes, I was told, came from the boyfriends parents kitchen garden in Hadlyme, CT.  Taylor described them as "very sweet and delicious, almost like candy." I'd say he was about spot on. The cheese came from Beltane Farm, which is known for is Swiss-style goat cheese made from oberhasli and la mancha goats milk. A neat little block with a thin vein of ash down the middle, the goat cheese was as beautiful as it was tasty. Soft and pungent.  Taylor described it as a lonely, cloudy day - in a good way.  Who knows... but when I got around to trying it, the day was, in fact, lonely and cloudy in mood and forecast and the cheese seemed to compliment that well.