Tumalo Farms

Truffleur is a goat cheese that contains Oregon white truffles. Made by Tumalo Farms, an artisan goat cheese maker in my neck of the woods, it is only produced in years when the truffle harvest is good and in years when it is produced, it is available only for a limited amount of time. (As in January and February.) The bad news is last year there was a poor truffle harvest and so no Truffleur was available. The good news is this year the truffle harvest is good and– WHOHOO — Truffleur has not only been produced but is available by mail order too.
So I’ll share information about «how to» here. How to access the Tumalo Farms main page.
How to read about Truffleur. (
) How to order Truffleur as part of a combined cheese shipment (of at least 2 lbs total) or by itself. (
) How to order Truffleur as part of a packaged shipment for 10% off and reduced shipping.(
) And if you order the Super Bowl selection, although it does not include Truffleur, here’s how to get 10% off your order and reduced shipping with that special package too. (
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I know… who would think of goat cheese and football together? In fact, who would think of football, period? I know… I know… I’m one of sixteen people in the United States completely indifferent to the game.
Back to the important thing, good goat cheese, if you’re ordering your own custom box of multiple cheeses, you might also want to add to the order, along with Truffleur (with white tuffles), some others like: Remembrance (with rosemary), Pondhopper (using a local beer in the cheesemaking process), Capricorns (with peppercorns), Fenacho (with fenugreek) or Classico (and better yet the Classico Reserve).
And if you order the cheese now so it arrives before February 6, the date of the «big game» my husband tells me, and do watch the Superbowl (the only reason I can think of to do that is for the commercials and the food at the party), while others are eating hot dogs and potato chips, you could be eating Fenacho stuffed dates, or Pondhopper mac n cheese, or grilled Poblanos stuffed with goat cheese raisins and hazelnuts. (Recipes on the Tumalo web site.)
If you live in central Oregon or in the Valley area, from Eugene through Portland, you can probably find Truffleur in local specialty markets, or even perhaps in bigger markets, like Market of Choice, that normally carry other Tumalo cheese products. (Although looks like Whole Foods may not be carrying Truffleur this year.) But if you’re outside the normal range of Tumalo Farms distribution, isn’t the ability to «e order» a good thing? Unlike football. :-)