Cheese Cookie Appetizers - 5 Wheys!
We love it when you share your recipes with us! Cateland White in Las Vegas, Nevada sent us this one and it was so good, we had to try it in as many different ways as we could. Cateland told us ...
Our Holiday Party with the Veterans
Lynn and Ricki – don’t ask! This year we carried on with our tradition of inviting the veterans who work on our team (assembling our kits, etc) to come from their workshop in Leeds* to our shop i...
As promised, this is the third recipe from the Historic Deerfield King Arthur Baking Competition. There were 3 prizes – my Candy Canes for Best Story, Barbara Keegan’s Date Bars for Most Creative...
The topping was hard to cut, so I sort of hacked them up. Do any of you know a solution for that? As Made by Margaret “Peggy” Flaherty Keegan, 1921-1966 A couple of weeks ago, the winners of the ...
I won for “Best Story” in the King Arthur’s Heritage Baking Contest at Old Deerfield, MA!!! Thank you, thank you very much! I promised in my previous article – King Arthur Meets the Cheese Queen...
Chocolate Neufchatel by Ed Jefferis
My wife, Judi, and I live in Oxford, Pennsylvania which is an hour south of Philadelphia. Oxford is a small rural town, close to Lancaster, Pennsylvania and we have a number of Amish neighbors. ...
Imran Saleh - Changing the Culture of Pakistan
Can you imagine how exciting it would be to become the first artisan cheese maker in your entire country?! Imran Saleh lives and thrives in that excitement every day. He has relentlessly (and a...
Here’s an opportunity for you! If you’ve been thinking about taking a big leap into your future, this might be the time to buy an award-winning goat dairy in North Carolina. Goat Lady has won man...
King Arthur Meets the Cheese Queen
I have a confession to make. I am one of those awful women who guards her recipes and no matter how much a friend might beg, I will not give it out. Ever. This is hard to admit and sad to say, ...
It isn’t every day that we hear from a home cheese maker in Russia! And it isn’t every day that we correspond with a fascinating a young woman (34) who has won writing competitions and traveled t...
We Appreciate Our Team of Veterans
Ricki and Victor Rivera It’s been 6 years since the Cheese Queen first heard about a program for veterans called the Compensated Work Therapy Workshop. She contacted the VA Central Western Massa...
3 Reasons to Sell Your Homemade Cheese & 1 Reason Not To
Farmer’s market in Shongweni, South Africa. Photo courtesy of EatOut You started making cheese and you love it. Your family loves it, your friends love it, your assorted holiday gift list loves ...
How This Began I loved the whole idea of Etsy when I first heard about it (over 5 years ago). In case you don’t know about it – Etsy is the website where artists and crafters sell their wares. W...
Barbara Crudale in West Kingston, RI
Why do they call it a “hobby farm” when it’s so much hard work? A hobby is an activity you do at your leisure and raising goats is not that! Fortunately, Barbara and her husband have 4 sons to h...
This was quite possibly the most fun I have ever had in the kitchen! I was having a little dinner party (5) and I wanted to try making cheese crisps – those little round ones you put in salads. ...
10 Tips for Aging Your Natural Rind Cheeses
“Little Darling Tomme” from DiBruno Bros. Or, as the song might go, “We’re just a flippin and a rubbin…” Natural rinds – that sounds so easy – just you and your cheese growing old together with n...
Can You Age Your Cheese in Clay?!
OK, you can call me crazy but I’m serious. And I don’t know the answer. I’m just hoping one of you will. (If anyone is doing it successfuly, I will certainly try it.) This all began with a thread...
Photo courtesy of All Remedies 4 years ago, I posted an article I thought was whey out in left field – Making Rennet From Fig Sap?!! Our company sells a wide variety of rennets, but none of the...
Massachusetts Cheese Festival, 2015
Sunday, October 11, 2015 1-5pm, The Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street We are SO happy about the activities the Massachusetts Cheese Guild has been hosting! We have k...
Huntsman is a British cheese made by combining Double Gloucester with Stilton. When you first look at this cheese, you wonder-how can they possibly age a mold-ripened cheese inside a semi-hard ch...
Tim Bisson's Chocolate Chili Provolone
Tim Bisson in Siletz, Oregon loves to make cheese (almost as much as he loves his dogs!). He recently started a new business making collars and leather goods, so, if you’re in the market, be sure...
These amazing morsels are always served with lunch at the Cheese Queens workshops and boy are they delicious. Each time a plateful is set out it’s gone in the blink of an eye because, you literally...
Recently, there was an article in our local newspaper (click here) about a Moldovan woman who is making yogurt here in the United States the way she did in Eastern Europe. The article (by Richie ...
Cheese Queen Testifies at GMO Hearing
Tuesday, September 22nd Ricki traveled to our Massachusetts Statehouse in Boston for the public hearing on a bill which would require labeling of GMO (genetically modified) products. This is not ...
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