Does anyone have any good simple instructions on how to use Camembert cheese? I have a full cheese in the fridge from Christmas and wouldn’t know where to start with it.
It says “perfect with crusty bread” on the pack, but I’m guessing that not the best route forward.
Tempted to roast it in it’s wooden container like I see on various cooking shows, but obviously don’t fancy burning the house down…
You can stuff chicken with it, stuff fathead or other Keto friendly dough with it, make cauliflower “Mac” and cheese with it, stuff a burger with it…so many possibilities 
Use it anyway you would use Brie. Cut a wedge like a pie slice and bake it. Make some kind of spinach artichoke bake. Just cut some and eat it. But don’t wait, it’s a ripening cheese and will get strong and develop an ammonia smell and taste only the hard core can handle 
I cant eat it straight as it comes, just not my kind of cheese… I’m thinking if it’s melted, or part of another dish, I might like it…
just checked the pack and realised it went out of date 2 weeks ago!
food poisoning swerved!
I’m sure I wont be saying that when I’m [spoiler]shitting[/spoiler] through the eye of a needle by Tuesday morning!
Next time bake it in the oven in an oven safe dish. Then get some pork rinds and celery sticks…instant fondue.
Send it to me!!! Camembert doesn’t really come into it’s own until it’s old enough to be allowed out by itself. Stinky socks are totally nom nom…!!!
haha, not sure you’d catch me eating cheese that is so out of date, it’s turned green, then developed a pair of legs and got itself out of the fridge!
It won’t be green - what sort of ripened cheeses have you been looking at, anyway? There will be lovely golden brown streaks and it’ll collapse in the middle and smell divine…
I’m insanely jealous - mine rarely gets to hang around long enough to age the way I like it - though an extended holiday on top of the fridge speeds things along nicely.
Cheese use-by dates are nonsensical just by the very nature of cheese!
I’m saying cheese use-by dates are a creation of people who want cheese to be a bad thing, not a good good thing. They pick a date when it’s starting to get good but isn’t and then use that date.
It’s anti-cheesist.
Supermarkets are great places to buy cheese. Go to their ‘septic shelf’ where all the short date stuff is put and you can often find cheese that still isn’t ready to eat (or is just about perfect) but is going ‘out of date’ with the added bonus that the price has been reduced!
As far as what to do with it…
I used to love ripe cheese on its own but now can’t eat any unless it is cooked to kill any mould that is supposed to be there as I developed an allergy that started to close my throat over.
I really miss the uncooked flavour but simply baking camembert until it is runny will soften both the cheese and the flavour and you can dip stuff in our just eat with a spoon.
