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La Cuesta Farm cheese debuts at the Dallas Farmers Market

10:11 AM Thu, Jul 03, 2008 | Permalink |
Kim Pierce

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La Cuesta goat cheese.jpg Alberto Garza and John Spanogle are a couple of softies when it comes to their little herd of 40+ goats. That's what I learned at a chef-producer-Friends of the Farmers Market gathering recently. All the goats at La Cuesta Farm have names, and Alberto and John make small-batch goat cheese (left) with their own Grade A milk.

Saturday morning, the cheese debuts at the Dallas Farmers Market in Shed No. 1. They'll have their basic chevre, which is $10 per 8-ounce container. Also their Flame-Roasted Green Chile and Garlic with home-grown New Mexico chiles sauteed in olive oil with garlic; $12 for 8 ounces. And Suave Supreme, a tangy, soft crumbled goat cheese that resembles feta; $14 for 8 ounces.

The men passed around samples, and the cheeses were velvety and fresh-tasting, puddling into pure flavor in our mouths. You know their work is a labor of love - La Cuesta translates roughly as "in one's care" - when their greatest anxiety was taking time away from their goats. They wanted to get back to the farmstead south of Dallas near Laguna Park and Lake Whitney as quickly as possible. Check 'em out Saturday at the market.