Making Cheese with Nomads in Mongolia
Mariana and Gantumar It’s hard for us to grasp how a young Brazilian mother managed to spend 2 days making cheese with a nomadic Mongolian family! But, she did and now all of us here at NECS wan...
Cream Cheese Experiment by Bob Albers
My Experiment By Bob Albers Excuse me while I don my mad scientist hat. I have previously submitted an article on Creole Cream Cheese. I like it as a breakfast food. That’s how it is normally e...
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’re ...
Gorgonzola Cheese Straws by Deon Matzen
About Deon: I am a painter (see Self Portrait of an Artists Painting a Silverstreak below) and painting instructor living on Whidbey Island in Washington State, teaching retirees at the local Sen...
Florentine Cheese Recipe by Sue Cummings
Sue Cummings of Kalispell, Montana teaches cheese making at Flathead Valley Community College (click here). The story she told us about how she learned to make cheese is a real testament to her p...
Sheep's Milk Camembert by Sara Hunt
About Sara: Sara Hunt works for an artisan creamery in northern Utah. She also has her own hobby sheep dairy (Three Point Farm in Logan, Utah). She told us she dedicates a fair amount of energ...
Leslie Silver from rural Vermont sent us this recipe. She makes it every year for a holiday party and she always gets rave reviews and requests for the recipe. We asked Leslie to tell us a little...
Leftovers-Waste Not/Want Not So Much
By Cookbook Author, Maggie Parkinson* Hi there! Last month (well actually two ago) I talked about being frugal with the household budget and referenced that, for me, not wasting food is an importa...
Holiday Party for Our Team of Veterans-2016
Ricki with Jim Pruner, Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist Every year around this time, we have a holiday party for the veterans who work for us through the the Compensated Work Therapy Workshop...
Howard's Own "Small Cheese" Recipe
By Howard Dewsbury in Barrie Ontario, Canada I am a 68 year old father of 4 lovely children and have been happily married to my wife Jane since 1969, and those children have given us 6 adorable g...
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’re ...
Bluma’s beautiful enamel bowl was her mother’s. Bluma Bier of Springfield, MA is a registered nurse at an outpatient clinic by day, and a homesteader in her dreams. Someday she may raise goats, ...
Elizabeth Scheller from English, Indiana sent us this recipe for Brie Pie with either orange marmalade or apricot preserves. She is a 31 year old dental hygienist. She and her husband (Justin) h...
Purchasing a Handmade Cheese Board
If you were inspired to make your own cheese boards in our last article – A Guide to DIY Cheese Boards – congratulations! You are officially a master do-it-yourselfer. Now, stop reading this art...
The obvious gift for cheese lovers is, you guessed it, cheese. But, this year, we thought you might want to really impress your friends and family by gifting your homemade cheese on a handmade che...
Last month, in our fabulous Moos-Letter, we asked y’all to send us your favorite recipes using your very own homemade cheese. We were thrilled when we received whey more than we had anticipated! ...
Barbara Adams of Meadow Wild Farm in Barnum, Minnesota sent us this recipe. She told us, “You can use any combo of veggies in this tart that you have on hand. I’ve used mushrooms, roasted red pepp...
Ava Smith Ava Smith in Connoquenessing, Pennsylvania (a little town about a half hour north of Pittsburgh) sent us this fabulous recipe. She found it originally on Pinterest, but then adapted i...
This recipe was submitted to us by Susan O’Dwyer in Harrisville, New Hampshire. We interviewed Susan in 2014 (click here) after she had written as essay for our 35th Anniversary Essay Contest. W...
Little Tidbits to Chew On - 006
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’re ...
Pictures of Our Veteran's Appreciation Day, 2016
Ricki Carroll, “The Cheese Queen” with veteran, Wayne Amodio For the last 6 years, we have been honored to share part of our work load with the Compensated Work Therapy Workshop at the VA Central...
Certifying Home Cheese Makers!
Kate Johnson with Bronze Level cheese makers We first interviewed Kate Johnson, the founder of The Art of Cheese , a school for cheese making, in 2014 when she sent us her recipe for Chocolate Ri...
Chevre is the easiest of the soft cheeses to make. You basically add one of our packets of chevre culture to a gallon of goat’s milk, wait for it to set and then drain the curds in butter muslin. ...
Dandelion Hill Farm in Sheffield, MA
Melissa and Peter Martin have been raising goats and growing their own food for over 26 years, ever since they discovered that one of their 4 children couldn’t digest cow’s milk. A neighbor gave ...
All you need is milk
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