Recipes: Love the taste of Brie? Use it to make these 4 dishes

Ah, the glory of soft-ripened Brie cheese. Its semisoft consistency is alluring; heat it and it becomes an ooey-gooey delight. The bloomy rind that surrounds the disk is a downy white, a surface that aids the cheese to ripen from the rind inward.

The flavors vary from grassy to nutty, but I like one of the descriptions that cheese expert Laura Werlin wrote in her book “Cheese Essentials” (Stewart, Tabori and Chang).

“Think butter and you’ll have a head start in knowing what to expect …” Werlin wrote.