Since it's almost Valentine's Day, I did a search to see what cheese-related Valentine's specialties I could find:
Coach Farm Heart-Shaped Goat Cheese
LOVE'S SWEET
Celebrate your sweet love with heart shaped triple creme cheese, rich dark chocolate, fruit and nut crostini and more cheese.
Our Love's Sweet Collection includes our ownHeart's Desire (7oz), named for the romantic cove on the western banks of the Tomales Bay, Midnight Moon (12oz), an aged goat cheese imported from Holland by Cypress Grove Chevre and Txiki (12oz), pronounced "Cheeky", a Basque style sheep milk from Barinaga Ranch, made just across the bay from Heart's Desire Beach.
Petit Bonheur is studded with pink peppercorns, providing sparks of piquant flavor throughout.
Here's a few more:
The first thing one notices about the coeur d'arras is its strong smell and its attractive shape in the form of a heart. A cheese that merits your attention.
It has a strong flavor, and the density of the coeur d'arras melts slowly and heavily on the tongue, leaving a sweet, lingering aftertaste.
The coeur d'arras comes from the Maroilles family, its rind is washed, the pate is soft, uncooked and unpressed.
Aged Chèvre:
Coach Farm Aged Chèvre
This semi-soft, bloomy-rinded goat cheese is made in Dutchess County, New York. The cheese is creamy and lightly lemony, with a little mineral tang from the bloomy rind.
Chèvre Hearts:
Capriole Goat Cheese
Research involves going to different cheese shops and tasting cheeses, reading up in Culture Magazine and online sites about new cheeses. I email my favorite cheesemonger (and now friend), Marcella, who has a fabulous blog: marcellathecheesemonger.com She has a feline foodie named Spaulding Gray (who you can "like" on Facebook). She's been terrific to me, making sure I get the cheeses in the right seasons and offering up suggestions of cheeses that I haven't tried.
I would like to go to exotic places, but time doesn't always allow. 
~Avery
AveryAames wrote:
Research involves going to different cheese shops and tasting cheeses, reading up in Culture Magazine and online sites about new cheeses. I email my favorite cheesemonger (and now friend), Marcella, who has a fabulous blog: marcellathecheesemonger.com She has a feline foodie named Spaulding Gray (who you can "like" on Facebook). She's been terrific to me, making sure I get the cheeses in the right seasons and offering up suggestions of cheeses that I haven't tried.
I would like to go to exotic places, but time doesn't always allow.
~Avery
Here's the link to Spaulding Gray's Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Spaulding-Gray-Port
Hi, Patti, yes, my books are "cozies." I don't mind the genre title at all. It suggests exactly what you said, curling up in a chair (bed, couch) to read a good book. A cozy often means a book that has a "gentle" crime (it is usually still murder but the horror and guts are off the page). It stars an amateur sleuth (not a detective or cop) who is usually personally drawn into the story whether to save a family member, a friend, a friend of a friend, or herself. There's little or no bad language, and in mine, the steamy sex is off the page, but don't get me wrong, Charlotte is in love. It's Valentine's Day. How can I not mention that? Very much in love!
Happy Valentine's Day to all.
~Avery
