Showing posts with label cheesemaking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cheesemaking. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

The Pantry Project (Ice Cream Edition)

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Ran across an ice cream maker at Goodwill the other day, and it reminded me that ice cream is a wonderful way of preserving the products of ...
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...
Saturday, May 18, 2019

The Fermentation Files, Spring 2019

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Spring finally sprang, and we’ve had a few weeks of beautiful weather. The grass grew all at once, the trees blossomed, and the rhubarb plan...
Saturday, August 26, 2017

Vampire Goats

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When we got home from our trip to Oregon to see the eclipse (WOW amazing sight and a great family vacation), I noticed that one of our mama ...
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...
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 8, 2015

Nettle Season (Copycat Cheese)

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Today was a beautiful unseasonably warm day for March. I think it was 60 degrees. We took the kids down to the beach, where it was warm enou...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

A Day in Cheese Season (Okay, Half a Day)

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A day during cheese season actually begins in the evening, when I make the decision whether or not to separate the baby goats from their mot...
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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Massive Milk Overload (How to Make Paneer)!

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I sent all my non-lactating goats to a friend's house to clean up her yard, and so for the next week or so I will be collecting nearly t...
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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Best Mother's Day Present EVER (Thanks, Baby, You're the BEST)

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Today was great. The best mother's day I can remember, in fact. Many things about today were nice - lunch at my sister's with Mom an...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Cheesy Success!

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It;s just about suppertime, so I have no time at the moment for a detailed explanation, but I have FINALLY created a reasonable facsimile of...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

Gimpy Goat and No More Milk

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This is Django. She is one of the original three goats we bought when we moved here, and now she is the only La Mancha I have (La Manchas ar...
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Friday, October 1, 2010

Serious Disappointment

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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 15:49:02 -0700 Subject: Good Food Awards Entry Notification Dear Aimee, Many thanks for your interest in participating...
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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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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

One Giant Leap for Cheese

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It's been only two days since the last two baby goats were picked up, and already I have run out of room in the refrigerator for milk an...
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Sunday, April 18, 2010

Aimee's Excellent Snacks

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first cheese of the year - chevre. I didn't really cook at all today - we all just snacked a little here and there all day long. For the...
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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Easy-Cheesy (No Room at the Inn)

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Last week, I started separating the baby goats at night. Now I am getting a crazy-large volume of milk, a volume that must be dealt with dai...
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Friday, January 1, 2010

2010 To-Do List

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A few days ago, I was walking the property and making a mental to-do list. I like to to do this about every month - just walk the perimeter,...
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Cheesy Goodness

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I made a new type of cheese today. Black Pepper-Rosemary Queso Fresco. It's good. It's really, really good. That brings to four the...
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