Maroilles: a smell that assails you, an ideal cheese for a good meal.

Maroilles: a smell that assails you, an ideal cheese for a good meal.

Any good self-respecting northerner is Fond de Maroilles, this delicious cheese with a smell as strong as a soaked sock that has marinated for several days in a damp shoe.

In short, Maroilles irritates the nostrils but delights the taste buds!

For the uninitiated, here is a little appetizer that should convert the most skeptical.

A devilish and monastic cheese.

Like many of its congeners, Maroilles, this cheese with a devilishly powerful taste, was created by divinely inspired monks.

How to taste a Maroilles?

Since Maroilles is a cheese that is best eaten cooked (too strong if not), there are many simple culinary combinations that will allow you to reach the heights of the Olympus of cheese taste:

The maroilles tart.

This exquisite flamiche, which is the pride of Northerners, is made of bread dough on which slices of maroilles cheese are spread, topped with a mixture of fresh cream and egg yolk. You put it all in the oven and you will get the most delicious cheese pies!

Maroilles tartiflette… When winter is on its way and chilling bodies, what better meal than a tartiflette with friends, surrounded by human warmth and accompanied by a few bottles of wine to warm souls? The tartiflette with northern sauce is another way to taste a gratin of potatoes, bacon bits and onions on which a generous maroilles cheese has melted and which you savor with abbey beers!