Warm your house and your belly with a Fondue made with some of Pastoral's favorite Melting Cheeses!

Here are three recipes with some of our favorite ingredients to share (or not!) with your family and friends this season. Designed with simplicity and speed in mind you can add, subtract or swap out at your leisure (and we're happy to help with suggestions!) to make these all your own. Enjoy!

We've been pretty busy here at Pastoral over the last few weeks, what with Bar Pastoral opening soon and gearing up for American Cheese Month and the holidays. Sadly, our friends over at the Merchant Park Community Garden didn't get their September recipe up as a result. But not to worry, recipe fiends! This month we present both this months' recipe AND last month's, in a special two-for-one edition with even more delicious, cheese-centric goodness than you can possibly imagine.

A fresh summer salad from my garden is defined daily by whatever is "ready to pick". Today, in the sweltering heat, I quickly watered and plucked a handful of radishes and some rosemary before escaping indoors to prepare a simple salad lunch.

Expect the unexpected. It’s not a motto I live my life by, but it certainly has its place in the context of the weather we’re experiencing right now and I have no complaints. Our higher-than-average seasonal temperatures and prolongued days of...

We hope you're enjoying your return to your various work places after the long weekend. If you're anything like us, the warm weather has you itching to go to the lake and to as many barbecues as you possibly can before the march of time leads us...

The augmentation of small scale street vendors of late correlates to that warm sun we've been feeling, and is the inspiration for this Mexican style chili-dressed salad, using the winter leaves which are available. It’s vibrant and refreshing, made more substantial with the addition of some sticky and salty Valbreso feta cheese and a chilli kick from mixed spiced nuts.

Just in time for Valentine's Day: an artisinal vodka sure to start or end your date on a pitch-perfect note.

You love your friends enough to invite them over to watch football on Sunday, why serve them scary, shelf-stable cheese? We know how addicting those cheesy party dips can be, so we've fashioned our own version using delicious artisan cheese!

Somewhat belatedly, we find ourselves in the depths of winter, although I’m still not sure if we’re totally there yet. I’ve been anticipating blizzards and all the challenges they bring with them since, ooh, November, so I wasn’t disappointed when...

It's winter and everyone is eating soup these days and we all know that soup is better with cheese, but lets stray away from the cheddars, the alpine cheeses and the parmesans of the world for a second and try something else, something new maybe.

They say good things come in small packages, and that's never been more true than this year with a fresh batch of recipes from our friends at the Merchant Park Community Garden

Our house sommelier shares a favorite cocktail recipe to help take the edge off the first half of the work week.