Monthly Archives: February, 2015
The Sailor Smokes A Salmon*
*or at least part of a salmon What!! You say. The Sailor isn’t writing about cheese?!?!? With the return of the cool weather (lows of -17 degC) I thought it was time to get my smoker smoking. I’ve owned my present smoker for about 2 1/2 years but have never smoked fish so here goes. …
The League of YEG Home Cheese Makers Meeting January 31, 2015
Well today was the first meeting of the year for the League of YEG Home Cheese Makers. It has been quite awhile since we had met and we hoped some new members would attend. It was nice to see everyone and try their cheeses. For this meeting we decided to make fresh cheeses and of course …
Crottin Ramblings
The plan for this post was originally to do a head to head test comparing two brands of goat milk – by making one of my favourite goat cheeses- Crottin. The plan was to make the two batches of cheese simultaneously and where everything was duplicated except for the milk. But sometimes the best laid …
Explorations with Sailor Rick 