Halloween Pumpkin-Cream Cheese Truffles
These are too cute!!! It seems like whenever I find a recipe online, there is always something I want to change in it. So, I end up going to other websites to look for variations. That happened ...
Thistle Rennet: Exciting New Product!
When we first posted the article about Making Rennet from Fig Sap, we had many inquiries in the comments section about making rennet from thistle. At the time, 2011, there was very little info ava...
A tidbit is a little piece of something BIG and that something is the big, big world of cheese. We know you’re kinda busy making your own “fabulous fromage,” so, every month (on the 15th), we sco...
Easy, Cheesy Halloween Appetizers
Olive Aliens from Hungry Happenings. Draw faces with black food coloring marker and soak in the brine for a few minutes until they look otherworldly. Serve with cheese (of course!). Creativity ...
How to Use Chalk to Identify Your Cheese They say “it’s all in the presentation” and maybe it is! If you have taken the time to make your own cheese, why not take a few minutes to create a whey t...
A Special Time-Keeping Spreadsheet for Making Cheese
Cheese Planning Helper By Bob Albers* Like most of us, I love to make cheese. Because I don’t have my own cheese factory, I use the kitchen. This causes a bit of conflict with my wife who asks “...
North Meadow Farm in Manchester, Vermont
There’s a new dairy in town and they’re making cheese! Lisa Cross, Jesse Pomeroy and David Johnson have joined forces to bring an old, tired farm in the Green Mountains of Southern Vermont back to...
Visiting Grafton Village Cheese Company
Chances are you’ve eaten at least one kind of Grafton Cheddar (https://www.graftonvillagecheese.com/). It’s sold everywhere, including the main supermarket in my town (Greenfield, MA). It is, in ...
Dehydrating Pears with the Cheese Queen
Ricki’s Dehydration Station Ricki is not only the Cheese Queen – she’s the Royal Dehydrator. In the last few years, she has dried apples, peaches, bananas, pineapple, tomatoes, kale and just abou...
Modifying Our "Off the Wall" Press Plans
Where else but at our company (New England Cheesemaking Supply Co.) can you buy a press for $4.95? Yes, it’s true that you have to make it yourself, but we’ve done the hard part for you! Our Off ...
A tidbit is a little piece of something BIG and that something is the big, big world of cheese. We know you’re kinda busy making your own “fabulous fromage,” so, every month (on the 15th), we sco...
Will Studd’s book is available on Amazon Recently, Ricki (The Cheese Queen) sent me the link to a video of cool street art.* Much of it was done in chalk and it reminded me that chalk is often u...
Making Cheese at Hildene in Vermont
Hildene – The Lincoln Family Home Hildene is located in Vermont’s southwest corner, The Shires, in Manchester Village, close to many popular ski areas. It was the summer home for Abraham Lincoln’...
Maggie's Easy Version of Tikka Masala
Mock Tikka Masala By Maggie Parkinson* An easy, fast Indian curry … not authentic but yummy! When I first came to Seattle as an Indian food lover, I was not happy to find that there was only ONE I...
Brooke Moore (14) - Food Artist Extraordinaire!
Last year we had a promotion going for awhile where, if you sent in a recipe with a picture of it, you received a gift certificate to our store (cheesemakingmart.com). We had quite a few responses an...
Judging at the New England Regional Cheese Competition - 2017
This is the eighth year for the cheese competition at the Eastern States Exposition (known as the Big E). The Big E starts in September, but the judging for the competition is always in August. ...
Free Food Safety Course for Cheese Makers
FREE until December 31, 2017 ! We sell supplies here at New England Cheese Making Supply Co. (not cheese), but when I received an e-mail about a free food safety course, I decided to take it. It’...
A tidbit is a little piece of something BIG and that something is the big, big world of cheese. We know you’re kinda busy making your own “fabulous fromage,” so, every month (on the 15th), we sco...
Ron Schmidt in Gainesville, Florida
Ron getting ready to play “air accordion” with a gator that he met in downtown Salem, OR last month. So far, they have not asked him back, but he is waiting for the phone call. Ron Schmidt, Profe...
Sr. Gertrude lives at the Abbey of St. Walburga in Virginia Dale, Colorado. Courtesy of The Fence Post Courtesy of Roadtrippers In April, 2014, we posted an article about her and her cheese (cl...
Rebecca Nininger in Hutchinson, Kansas
Rebecca Nininger makes the widest variety of homemade cheeses we have ever seen. Her cheeses are nothing short of spectacular! Yet, when I mentioned that to her, she laughed and said the pictures...
Peter Corrigan's Unicorn Cheese
When Peter Corrigan from Princeton, New Jersey sent us pictures of his “rainbow” cheese, we were surprised and delighted. We think it’s beautiful! He told us he made it with non-artificial natur...
Little White Goat Dairy in Orange, Massachusetts
When you listen to Rachel Scherer talk about her goats, you can tell she knows exactly what they like and don’t like, as if she can read their minds. She learned everything she knows from the que...
Calculating Weights for the Dutch Style Press
As you may already know, we sell several different kinds of presses, including the Dutch Style Press (E30) (shown below) and the Off the Wall Press Plans (OWP). Both of them come with the weight ...
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