Tag Archives: cheese
A Special Request!
I had a special request for homemade cheese this past week! If I have this blogging thing sorted out this post will magically appear while Sailor girl and I are at dinner party with our wine tasting friends. This is a noteworthy event because our single friend Hari who lives in a condo on his …
Cheese Making Once Again!
As I mentioned in my previous post I have been away from cheese making for a considerable length of time; about 10 months. In what is beginning to become an annual tradition (does 2 times make a tradition?) my friend Ian over at Much To Do About Cheese asked if I wanted to get together …
March Cheesepalooza Challenge
Since joining the Cheesepalooza Challenge in September I have managed to create at least one of the cheeses each month except for February where I missed the gouda challenge. I have also created a number of extra cheese or cultured dairy products as well. I have managed to write about most of them but have …
GOAT DROPPINGS
It seems of late whenever I make cheese I do it in a flurry of activity, which results in me making a number of cheeses or other cultured products over the course of a weekend. The downside to this is when I write about my experience with this blog, the posts tend to get big, …
January Cheesepalooza Challenge
Surprise!!! I think this is my quickest Cheesepalooza Challenge post I have done by far. Maybe I should have made my posting speed a New Year’s Resolution. It was pretty much a no brainer that I would make Asiago for the challenge, as this cheese is a favourite of both my wife Lorrie and …
December Cheesepalooza Post
Once again I am behind the 8 Ball (Val!) and find myself a few weeks behind on my Cheesepalooza post for December; so while I wait for my January Cheesepalooza make to ripen, I thought I would get a start on this. The December Cheesepalooza Challenge was Farmhouse Cheddar or Caerphilly and Irish Cheddar among …
Mozzarella – November Cheesepalooza Challenge
First off let me apologize for being so late with this post. The verbiage was completed on November 23 but I/we were very busy and I needed time to upload the photos. The Mozzarella Cheesepalooza Blog winners were announced and the Christmas season arrived….next thing you know it is now New Years Eve and I …
What To Do On A Snowy Afternoon?
Make Squeaker Cheese Curds of Course! Following in what has turned out to be my Quebec based theme this week I have decided to make a batch of cheese curds. Primer Having been born and raised in Alberta I had never really been exposed to the cheese curd phenomena. Generally speaking up to the very …