Waitrose All Butter Cheddar Cheese & Chilli Bi

 

This is a very tasty little cheesy bite, with a kick of chilli to liven it up. Very nice.

It has occurred to me that the British palate has changed enormously over the last 20 years. I can’t help feeling that not so long ago these cheese and chilli bites might have been considered very much too hot. These days I suspect they are acceptable to all the world and his grandmother. We are all eating a lot more chilli, and even the most conservative cook thinks nothing of throwing a pinch (minimum) of chilli flakes into the spaghetti bolognaise.

Lovely texture, very nice bite, good cheesy taste and that little kick of chilli. I really enjoyed these.

Interesting. In the past I think these cheesy bites might have been packaged in a silver plastic baggie inside the cardboard box. You can see that this baggie is clear. Maybe the clear bag biodegrades more quickly?

M&S Christmas All Butter Rosemary & Sea Salt Straws

This rosemary flavoured (not very strongly flavoured - but in a good way) cheese straw from Marks & Spencer is kind of like a really rich shortbread. It is so extremely buttery that I felt I could only eat about half a straw at a time. They are rather large so you get quite a bit of buttery rosemariness with each straw.

Want to follow the serving suggestion? Take a white table cloth and scatter it liberally with golden glitter (can you imagine? glitter gets just everywhere), then strew the table with bits of yew, with red berries if possible,  and place your plateful of crispy snacks on the glittery cloth. Making sure, obviously, that there is a string of fairy lights in the background (actually not a problem this house because the Chef and I rather like to light the place with fairy lights).

Very tasty, but extremely rich. So you may feel like me that you can only manage about a half of one of these at a time.

M&S Christmas All Butter Mini Goats Cheese Straws with Chilli & Roasted Onion Chutney

What a mile long name for a crispy snack. What a terrifically tasty crispy snack!

Yum!!

I think if you asked them you'd find that all the reluctant taste testers liked this mini cheese straw concoction very much indeed. I thought they were very good but we all liked them; Senior taste tester, Tech taste tester, Giraffe Fan.... even those of us who don't like goats cheese (Tall Elegant taste tester "but I don't like goats cheese") enjoyed this extremely good and terrifically tasty crispy snack.

Lovely texture, nice bite, the sort of streusel cheesy topping was cheesy and crunchy, nice heat from the chilli aftertaste and the onion chutney adds to the rounded taste: altogether a tremendous snack. 10/10 for general deliciousness.

Grab some while you can because this is probably a limited edition for Christmas only. And grab them now because Tall taste tester is going to buy up the entire supply to give to his family for Christmas.

Probably not madly healthy. Because you will eat more than you meant to.