When I think of creamy, spreadable cheeses, the first one that pops to mind is the Italian classic, Mascarpone. It has a luscious texture that our conventional cream cheese just can’t replicated. (I first heard of Mascarpone when I watched the movie Kate and Leopold. Hugh Jackman’s character, Leopold, prepared breakfast for Kate (Meg Ryan) […]
Dairy Delights
Cottage Cheese at Home: Better than Store Bought
Grocery stores carry it in their dairy sections in small, nondescript containers. Diners usually have it listed as a side dish or perhaps under a special header such as “Diet Plate”. But allow me to shed light on an often passed over dairy product. Folks, it is time to fall in love with cottage cheese… […]
Crock Pot Cajeta: A Goat Milk Delight
Goat milk has been part of my diet for years. In my kitchen, it typically ends up as chèvre, greek yogurt, paneer, or cabécou. While those are all wonderful ways to enjoy goat milk, I was searching for something else. Fortunately, someone told me about cajeta and as the saying goes, the rest is history. […]
Homemade Goat Milk Ricotta
One of the easiest cheeses to make at home (in my opinion) is ricotta. It has a fresh, milky flavor. A flavor that is hard to find in commercial, mass-produced brands. And increasingly so, other ingredients are making their way into the commercially produced brands. Examples of ‘other’ ingredients include: modified food starch, guar gum […]
Beyond Chèvre: Cabécou Cheese
I consider myself lucky. On our urban homestead there are chickens, bees, vegetable gardens, mature fruit trees, and a husband who is willing to do chores. But one of the things that I am most thankful for isn’t something that I can’t simply retrieve from the backyard. Instead, my husband picks up two quarts of […]
Easy Steps to Making Chèvre at Home
Goats are wonderful creatures, aren’t they? From the time I first laid eyes on a goat, I knew that I was looking at a very special creature. They entertain us with their antics, act as a composting device for our kitchen scraps, provide us with manure that can be used to fertilize garden beds, and […]