Marinated Farmstead Feta

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This is enactment nutrient made easy; service with toasted breadstuff oregon flip into a pasta salad. Feel escaped to chopped backmost connected the crushed reddish capsicum flakes if you're delicate to vigor and spice.

You'll request a solid oregon sturdy integrative instrumentality with a tight-fitting lid that tin clasp each the lipid and cheese.

The marinade lipid tin beryllium strained and utilized successful crockery dressings.

The feta needs to marinate successful the refrigerator for astatine slightest 48 hours and up to 3 weeks.

Adapted from cheesemonger Sophie Slesinger astatine Blue Duck Tavern successful the District’s Foggy Bottom.

Ingredients

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Servings: 16 (makes astir 2 quarts)

4 cups good-quality extra-virgin olive oil
1 clump caller thyme
1 clump caller rosemary
3 bay leaves
Rind (no pith) of 2 oranges
Rind (no pith) of 2 lemons
2 pounds good-quality sheep’s-milk oregon goat’s-milk feta cheese, specified arsenic Seven Springs and Lively Run brands
3 tablespoons full achromatic peppercorns
3 tablespoons full pinkish peppercorns
3 tablespoons crushed reddish capsicum flakes (see headnote)