Fun Along The Whey

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.

Cheese Making RecipePurple Onion Feta with Andy Cumberland

Purple Onion Feta with Andy Cumberland

Andy Cumberland with his Drunken Nut Cheese Back to Basics Down Under I asked Andy to send me a picture of himself making cheese and I received this – I didn’t get the time to make chees...

Recipes with CheeseMilk Mead (Lactomel) with Andrew Luberto

Milk Mead (Lactomel) with Andrew Luberto

Another Use for Whey Andrew Luberto (from Nesconset, New York) wrote to us when he saw a note from one of our customers in the News From Our Customers section of our Moosletter (July issue). He of...

EventsPictures from the ACS 2013 Convention

Pictures from the ACS 2013 Convention

Almost every year, for the last 30 years, since she helped found the American Cheese Society, Ricki has been attending the annual ACS convention. It’s held in a different part of the country (or...

Cheese Making RecipeBrie with Peggy Ployhar

Brie with Peggy Ployhar

Peggy Ployhar, from Kenyon, Minnesota has a lot going on! She and her husband and their three young children run a “hobby farm” with an apartment they rent out for farm stays in the summer. Accor...

IngredientsWhy Use Starter Cultures?

Why Use Starter Cultures?

There are as many recipes for making cheese without cultures on the Web as there are with cultures. Alternative starting agents include lemon juice (Panir & Lemon Cheese), vinegar (Queso Blan...

EventsCheese Contest Reminder!

Cheese Contest Reminder!

Larry Faillace and Ian Anderson in the cheese house at Cave’s Branch. 6 days and 5 nights in Belize, learning to make cheese … Deadline: July 31, 2013. This could be the easiest contest y...

Cheese Making RecipeCream Cheese with Jill Richardson

Cream Cheese with Jill Richardson

Jill Richardson Jill Richardson is a well-known expert on food and farming issues here in the US and all around the world. Her website, La Vida Locavore has book reviews, articles about fo...

Recipes with CheeseSaag Paneer with Maggie Parkinson

Saag Paneer with Maggie Parkinson

Maggie calls this picture “Before Morning Coffee” This is the second recipe in a 6 part series by Maggie Parkinson of Renton, Washington. Maggie previously authored two low carbohydrate c...

Recipes with Cheese3 Camembert Appetizers

3 Camembert Appetizers

If you’ve made your own Camembert, perhaps from Jim Wallaces’s recipe, the chances are you’ve made it again and again. It’s just tooooo good and tooooo easy to make. After you’ve made it a couple...

Cheese Making RecipeGammelost

Gammelost

Photo of Gammelost from www.h-a.no In the June, 2013 issue of our Moosletter, we posted a request by one of our customers for a Gammelost recipe. Gammelost is a Norwegian cheese, rarely ...

Fellow Cheese MakersTwo Weeks in Tuscany with The Weekend Artisan

Two Weeks in Tuscany with The Weekend Artisan

This past March, I posted an article about a new cheese making website called The Weekend Artisan. Douglas Lumley and his wife, Jan, of Winchester, UK have created a great “do-it-yourself” site w...

EventsThe Southern Vermont Dairy Goat Association

The Southern Vermont Dairy Goat Association

New SVDGA member, Kathy Burek with her three doelings Promoting Dairy Goats Since 1945 Recently, I attended my first ADGA (American Dairy Goat Association) sanctioned Dairy Goat Show at th...

Our CompanyRicki's Spring Projects

Ricki's Spring Projects

Ricki hugging her fabulous creation It’s a creative frenzy! The Cheese Queen is at it again. It seems like every year, beginning when the sap starts flowing and the snow has melted, Ricki...

Fellow Cheese MakersHaniya (Age 9) and Her Mother, The Fresh Food Fairy

Haniya (Age 9) and Her Mother, The Fresh Food Fairy

Making Mozzarella like crazy! Haniya Frayer of Kalamazoo, Michigan is already a pro at making 30 Minute Mozzarella. She does the entire process herself (with adult supervision, of course!). Here...

Recipes with CheeseMaking Pizza with Maggie Parkinson

Making Pizza with Maggie Parkinson

Maggie Parkinson This is the first recipe in a 6 part series by Maggie Parkinson of Renton, Washington. Maggie previously authored two low carbohydrate cookbooks (as Carylton Cooper). Sh...

EventsA Cheese Contest You Can Win!

A Cheese Contest You Can Win!

This is a picture from the Cave’s Branch website. The rest are ones I took when I went there. Anyone Want to Spend 5 Days at a Jungle Lodge in Belize Making Cheese?! Do you remember when ...

Fellow Cheese Makers30 Minute Mozzarella Makes a Great Science Project

30 Minute Mozzarella Makes a Great Science Project

Tommy with the board Ali made. (Ali couldn’t attend the fair.) We love this! A few weeks ago we received a note from Helen Tsatsos, the proud mother of Tommy L. (10), a fifth grade Mozzar...

MilkRaw Milk Distribution - Just Another Hearing

Raw Milk Distribution - Just Another Hearing

Note: This map is 3 years old, but it was the latest I could find. In the past, I have done several posts about raw milk and our support of it. The point of this one is to share my exper...

Cheese Making RecipeCurd Cheese from Cultured Milk

Curd Cheese from Cultured Milk

Ryys in Stockholm Made by a Norwejian who was inspired by a Pole … Dr. Rhys Evans lives in Norway and he loves good food. So, he cooks a lot from healthy ingredients and he has begun his ...

Cheese Making RecipeAsiago with Stephanie Eddy

Asiago with Stephanie Eddy

Clockwork Lemon is a great name for a delightful website created by Stephanie Eddy in Okotoks, Canada. There are hundreds of recipes, tips and culinary adventures. Every single recipe is basica...

Recipes with CheeseKashk

Kashk

kashk = qurut = quroot = yazdie = caramelized yogurt = cream of whey Recently, we received a note from one of our customers in the mid-east, requesting a recipe for kashk. She described it as “a t...

Fellow Cheese MakersMaggie Parkinson in Renton, Washington

Maggie Parkinson in Renton, Washington

This is not an ad! Maggie’s book is currently out of print. The art of cheese making is only one many creative endeavors for Maggie Parkinson (stage name- Carylton Cooper). She has bee...

Cheese Making RecipeFarmer's Cheese with Oksana Hill

Farmer's Cheese with Oksana Hill

Oksana Hill It’s always fun when a great cook like Oksana realizes she can make her own cheese. Oksana Hill of West Sacramento, California has a fabulous website- This Life of Bliss at whi...

Fellow Cheese MakersRachel Monger in Tanzania

Rachel Monger in Tanzania

This is a challenge! I will never complain about any aspect of making cheese again. Compared to the conditions under which people in remote areas of the world are working, I have it rediculously...

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