Showing posts with label cheese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cheese. Show all posts
Sunday, September 13, 2020

Preserving Log (Late Summer 2020)

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I’ve been on an absolute tear in the kitchen the last two weeks. Late August/early September is the middle harvest season (Mabon is coming r...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

High Cheese Season 2020 (Making Do)

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            A middle stage in the making of cheddar  In last week’s post on preserving, I forgot to include cheese. Cheese is kind of the wh...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Dedicated Cheese

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Today I opened up a cheese from last spring, that had been resting, vacuum sealed, in the dedicated fridge in the store room. The “dedicate...
Sunday, November 11, 2018

Salvaging the Impalatable (Fermented Seal Guts)

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April and May is goat cheese season, year after year. This past spring, however, I spent even more time than I usually do making cheese. Th...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Summer in Oaxaca (Abbreviated Cheese)

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This cheese season will be a short one: we are going to Mexico for most of the summer. Over the past three years we have been slowly, by fit...
Friday, April 15, 2016

Cheese Season Solutions (Practicality vs. Purism)

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Cheese season will be short this year. We are leaving for Oaxaca June 24th, and at that point we will let the does dry off, since Rowan ca...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Spring Swaps

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Spring is a good season for trading. I have eggs, milk, and cheese, and am on the prowl for anything to make gardening easier, as I get stif...
Saturday, April 18, 2015

Three Easy Cheeses (From One and a Half Goats)

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Polly and Iris This year I have one-and-a-half does in milk. Sounds weird, but it's about right. Polly (black and white, above) had...
Sunday, March 1, 2015

State of the Farm, Early Spring 2015

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This has been, nearly, a year without a winter. We had a hard freeze and a few inches of snow way back in November, and several frosts over ...
Thursday, September 4, 2014

Demon Cheese (Homero the Hero)

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Our house is old. Most of the essential features - the roof, the septic system - have been upgraded over the years (this sweeping statement ...
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Saturday, June 7, 2014

New Trade Route

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The trade network has been pretty much dormant since I got back from Mexico. We made that one great trade last summer - a baby goat for ...
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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Organic Disaster (Late Season Trades)

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My longest running trade partner, Veggie/Oil Man ( see This Is What You Call Having Your Work Cut Out For You ), had a rough year. His farm ...
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Great, Now I'm Terrified

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On a total whim, I entered one of my cheeses (the seedy dill and caraway) into the national Good Food Awards contest ( Good Food Awards ). T...
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Thursday, June 17, 2010

The Quesillo Chronicles

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My cheesemaking experience now stretches back almost three years. I have had some notable successes, and several notable failures. At last, ...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Bounty

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This is a small fraction of the week's bounty. The blueberries and cherry tomatoes were picked today; blueberries from a farm up the roa...
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Sunday, June 22, 2008

Chevre Chevere (to the tune of chim-chimeree from Mary Poppins)

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My attempts at cheesemaking have been hit or miss, a little. I was constrained by several factors, the main one being that my only lactating...
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