I like smoked gouda on a cheese platter. I do not like to cook with it or have it accompany a meal because it is too strong. But you can definitely sit it next to a gorgonzola and a pecorino and it fits in.

I always have it in dishes because it's the only cheese I always have in the house, My mothers dutch so it's a given. You know what they call the dutch people "kaas koppen" cheese heads