Heather’s Ramblings

Hello all!  I’ve made more mozzarella and this time I took pictures.
It went better this time but still wasn’t perfect.
I started out by adding the milk and citric acid and heating to 88 degrees.  Instead of using milk though I tried the suggested method of using powdered milk and heavy cream.  I had a lot [...]

The cheese saga continues.
This time I learned my lesson.   I didn’t over heat the milk and a proper curd formed.  Yippee!!!  I got thru the draining steps unscathed.  The pressing stage didn’t go so well though.
The recipe for this cheese called for pressing it for 15 min with a 10lb weight, then increasing the [...]

Ok, so in my last entry I mentioned reading the book “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.” by Barbara Kingsolver. One thing mentioned in the book is cheese making. As I have recently fallen in love with my kitchen again I decided I wanted to try this so I bought the kits Barbara mentioned from the [...]