How to Freeze Blue Cheese

By Yvette Sajem, eHow Contributor

updated: January 26, 2010

Aged, mold-laden blue cheese is versatile and flavor-enhancing. Blue cheese is perfect in salads, pasta dishes, breads, vegetables and even desserts. And though it doesn't seem as if cheese aged in a damp cave would take well to your freezer, blue cheese is easy to freeze. It freezes quite well, too, which means that you can have it on hand whenever you need it.

Things You'll Need:

• Knife
• Plastic wrap
• Freezer paper
• Heavy-duty freezer bags

Instructions:

1.         Remove blue cheese from its original packaging.

2.         Slice the blue cheese into half-pound pieces.

3.         Wrap each piece tightly in plastic wrap.

4.         Wrap each plastic-wrapped piece in freezer paper.

5.         Place the wrapped pieces into heavy-duty freezer bags.

6.         Label and date the bags.

7.         Store the bags in your freezer at no higher than 0 degrees F. Blue cheese      frozen properly will keep indefinitely, but for the best quality use it within     six months.

Tips & Warnings

• Thaw blue cheese in your refrigerator. This typically takes two to three days.
• Blue cheese is best served at room temperature. Remove thawed blue cheese from your refrigerator about one hour before serving.
• Discard blue cheese if it tastes rancid, emits an odd odor or has mold that is not native to the manufacturing process.

So this is probably the worst place to admit this and ask this question...but yall gotta love me, warts and all!

It is no secret that I live for my dirty martini on Friday evening.  Yes, (gasp) I do partake in the adult beverages on Fridays and sometimes I'll even have another over the weekend!!  (Hey, I run it off!!).

Anyhoo--I like to make blue cheese stuffed olives for my martini (remove the pimento and insert blue cheese).  The problem is that blue cheese is expensive and the open container only lasts two weeks before the mold farm starts growing.....I've thrown away two containers now, barely used.

So I'm thinking can you freeze it????

I was told when I first started this process that my insurance would pay 100%.  So this afternoon, I get a call from Crestwood telling me that my part of this will be $1861.00 whi*****ludes a $500.00 deductible because, of course, the deductible starts over on January 1.  I then call BCBS to find out what in the world is going on and why are they not paying 100% as I was told in the very beginning.  I was told that "my benefits for 2011 have not loaded into the computer system yet" and I will have to call back later.  Okay, what if my surgery had been on January 3rd?  This is ridiculous.  AND, I don't know about y'all but I don't have an extra $2,000.00 just laying around.  Santa robbed me blind, LOL, and college tuition was paid yesterday, AND two of my children just "had" to have money for two mission trips.  Good Grief!!

Anyway, if it ends up that I have to pay the entire $1861.00, Crestwood said I could pay $500.00 Monday and make payment arrangements for the rest.  My husband who is normally very quiet said just cancel it.  We will do it later.  Oh My Lord, my blood pressure shot up sky high, I just know, LOL.  I looked at him and I said very calmly....I do not care if we have to sell the house.  I do not care if we have to sell the cars.  I AM HAVING IT.  He said...okay then.  It is not THAT bad, we won't have to sell anything, just buckle down as my daddy used to say.

Kim

Trying to get back on track now that my schedule is back to normal! Having a lot of time off during the holidays is great, but not for my eating habits!

B - Protein Shakek
L - Chicken Noodle Soup Broth (I only like the broth, strange,huh?) and some Goldfish crackers
D - No idea.

Hi everybody,

Well, the nurse from Dr. Facundus' office called and said my EKG from yesterday showed "mild abnormalities".  She said Dr. Facundus would not be in the office until late this afternoon and if he recommended medical clearance from my primary care provider then it would be too late to get it done before surgery, and my surgery would have to be rescheduled.  So.....I went ahead and went to my primary care provider this morning and had a physical exam and another EKG, and now I am cleared for surgery.  I go tomorrow for my preop appointment with Dr. Facundus.

Whew.....now back to work.

Kim