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Since 1978 we have been sharing the joy of home cheese making. With over 100 step by step cheese making recipes, helpful guides and easy to use supplies it's fun and easy to make cheese at home.

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Twisted Acres Farm in Bristow, Oklahoma

Lola Carter and Momo Looking for a yummy holiday gift? Lola Carter and her husband, Stephen raise goats and they make their living selling caramel candies, soaps and a bath scrub made with their...

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Gluten-Free Limoncello No-Bake Mini Cheesecakes

We posted Bob Albers’s recipe for limoncello last month (click here), and it was outrageously! delicious. I was looking for a way to use it in a dessert for the holidays and I wanted at least one...

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This new cheese Advent calendar will be available at Target stores any day now. It was created by Annem at the blog, So Wrong It’s NOM. There is another cheese calendar being sold at ALDI stores...

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Making Cheese in Nairobi

A while back, one of our readers asked us to connect her with Sandra Daniels, a missionary in Kenya (article in 2011). This reader was planning to teach cheese making in the slums of Nairobi to S...

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72 Cheeses You Can Make Now for the Holidays!

You Can Do It! There is no finer way to express your love for family and friends than with the gift of homemade cheese. Everybody loves it (even vegetarians) and when you serve it to guests, they...

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Farm Fromage in PA

Angela and Howard Field 8 years ago, Howard Field saw an article about cheese making in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania newspaper and it inspired him to start making his own cheese (using our book, H...

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Training a Goat to Pull by Julia Biegel

Julia Biegel We’ve posted a lot of articles about goats who provide milk for cheese, etc., but we haven’t said a lot about other working goats. There are goats who carry backpacks, goats who pul...

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Freezing Milk for Cheese Making

We don’t hear much about freezing milk these days. Home economists used to recommend it, and a lot of farm women used to do it. But, now, we’re more sophisticated and, in general, we try to serv...

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A Gluten-Free Meal to Make in Advance It’s fun when the weather is colder to have friends and family over for dinner. It’s especially fun when you have a meal already prepared, just waiting in th...

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Making Camel Milk Cheese by Becca Heins

A year ago, we posted an interview with Becca Heins when she earned her prestigious Cheese Professional Certification from the American Cheese Society (click here). She spent 6 months preparing fo...

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The Cheese Queen is Listening

Andrew Forsthoefel and Ricki Carroll (AKA The Cheese Queen) The Cheese Queen has officially decreed that everyone in the cheese kingdom must read this book immediately: Walking to Listen By Andre...

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Bob's Homemade Limoncello

Now is a great time to start making holiday gifts (like the homemade vanilla extract we made a few weeks ago). All you need is the bottles and some cute labels and everybody’s happy (this drink, ...

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Dela Ends in Brodhead, Wisconsin

Dela and her husband, Tony Dela Ends (64) is a cheese maker, a mother, an organic farmer, and an activist. We’re in awe of the work she’s done for women in agriculture. For over 24 years, she an...

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Beth Parker in Chazy, New York

Beth Parker and her family have a small farm in upstate New York, near the border with Canada and Vermont. It’s beautiful country, close to Lake Champlain. Beth’s Story I am the Parts Manager for...

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How to Host a Cheese Party by The Biegel Family

In April 2017, we posted an article about the Biegel family in Alberta, Canada (click here). The Biegels have a farm where they raise goats (and all kinds of other animals) and make cheese (and a...

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This Month: New Videos! Korean Corn Cheese: Maangchi is the cutest chef ever! We love that smelly cheese!: Great PBS video. We never get tired of watching cheese being made: They eat grilled ...

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Anne Larsen in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia

Anne Larsen first wrote to us with a comment at one of our blog articles about making yogurt in the Instant Pot (click here). She was using the pot to make her soft cheeses as well: The Instant P...

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Cherry Tomatoes Stuffed with Fresh Mozzarella

I recently started doing the Ketogenic Diet which I absolutely love, and I now eat as much cheese as I want to (and that’s quite a bit!). I was going to an event where I didn’t know if I would fi...

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Wendy Gardner in Whitehall, Montana

Wendy Gardner is a master home cheese maker who raises and sells Alpine dairy goats in southwestern Montana. She does this on top of the Continental Divide at an altitude of 6000 feet. Her herd ...

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Jim Stone in Santa Fe, Texas

Jim Stone first came to our attention when he made a comment at one of our blog articles. He mentioned that he was making cheese twice a week, so he was glad to get the tip about using dental flo...

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Easy-Cheesy Corn Fritters

There are at least a million recipes online for these fritters, but I had never tasted one until my brother’s wife, Karen made them at a family vacation in Maine. She had extra corn on the cob and...

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Mona Kanner in Salem, Oregon

We first met Mona Kanner when she made a comment at Claire Barker’s article – How to Milk a Goat. She mentioned that she had been raising goats for 26 years and she had recently gotten her first ...

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Why Butter Sculptures?

Butter Cow at the Iowa State Fair in 2011 – exactly 100 years from when the first one was made. Photo credit: Pinimg.com It’s fair season and all across the country there are butter sculptures f...

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Anne's Clotted Cream

Anne Larsen in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia was excited when she realized she could make clotted cream in her Instant Pot* and we were excited to have her recipe. We are in the process of doin...

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