Sunday, January 4, 2009

Curds and Whey

One of our housemates recently read "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" by Barbara Kingsolver and has now gotten a bunch of us all excited about eating locally and making our own cheese along with the other things that we already make. We've only made mozzarella so far but it is much easier than we thought and tastes so good. We hope to try ricotta at some point and maybe Cheddar, however it takes over a year to age properly which means we'd need to be very patient.

Missy bought a cheese kit that includes all the necessary ingredients except for the milk, making the process much easier on the cheese maker. I would suggest getting a cheese kit and trying it yourself, you'll be quite impressed with yourself.

Separating the whey from the curd and slicing the curd

Stretching the cheese and tasting the final product, sooo good

2 comments:

Kathryn said...

I got a kit for Christmas!

Mary Lundquist said...

Wonderful! I'm sure it tastes great. Wish I could be there to help you make it -and eat it!

-Mary