Saturday octobre 15 the Culinairy Seasonal market will be held at Veenhuizen in Drenthe. A grand event with a variety of culinairy manifestations. ‘De Oude Streek’ will be present at this culinairy market that will be located at Hotel Restaurant Bitter en Zoet, Hospitaallaan 16, Veenhuizen. Visit the website for more information.

There is no Q fever at goat farm ‘De Oude Streek’!

The goats are in their last weeks before kidding. This period the goats won’t get milked and temporarily there is no goat cheese made at ‘De Oude Streek’. After the goats give birth the milk production is continued and all the goat cheese specialities will be available from mid February.

The farm shop will be closed till February 17th.

Sunday 2 oct  ’De Oude Streek’ will be present at the Open Day of  the Piloersemaborg in Den Ham. During this day the beautiful Borg is open to the public and there is a small market.  See for more  information at their website.

Sunday, 4th of July the newest cruise liner of the Holland America Line was baptised by HRH Princess  Máxima in Venice, Italy. During the festive ‘Royal’ lunch Machedoux was used to create a delicious cold starter plate. That makes it the third time this cheese speciality is being served to a member of the Dutch Royal family.
To guarantee the freshness the cheeses were delivered to Italy by special transport; the caddy of Puur Noord Nederland.

New in the “De Oude Streek” assortment is the Macendré. Cendré means in French that the product is treated with charcoal ashes and that is exactly what happened with Macendré. The cheeses are rolled through the ashes after the white blooming rind has formed. The charcoal ashes deminishe the acidity a bit,  delay the process of riping and make the cheese fuller in taste. This results in a creamy cheese with a black or greyish rind with a pleasantly earthy flavour. Macendré comes in 90 gram packaging.

Macendré is a raw milk creamy cheese treated with charcoal ashes. The ashes give the soft rind a black or greyish colour and the cheese a pleasantly earthy flavour.

Sunday 25th of September 2011 the fourth  Superstreekmarkt will be held around the restaurant De Agnietenberg.

Around 50 artisan producers will present their products like dairy, bread, meat, fish, vegetables, herbs, fruit, tapas, oils, coffee, tea, wine and beer.

The market is open from 11am till 5 pm and entrance is free of charge.