Tag: cheese

Waiting for Our Return

Remember back when I made gouda? Yeah, neither did I, it was fricking ages ago. I was almost shocked to find it, safely tucked away in its red wax coating, when we got back to the states and sorted...

Kunming and Yuanyang

UPDATE: The mystery goo in the last entry has been identified. We went to a supermarket and it was right on the shelf: instant lotus-root starch, available in plain and rose flavors. Greg and I spent most of our time...

Home Cheesemaking: Gouda

Here it is, the product of three months of waiting, my first homemade aged cheese: a waxed gouda. It is still fairly young— I'm planning to age some of this cheese another three to five months— but it has...

Homemade Mozzarella

Last night a foodie friend joined us for a dinner and mozzarella making. We used the recipe from Home Cheese Making, but a very similar recipe can be found on Leeners.com, where I've bought a lot of cheese-making supplies....

Gjetost

As I said, the missing entries in my Omnivore's Hundred make me inexplicably crazy. So it's no surprise that when I just happened to sight some gjetost as I waltzed past the cheese case (Just happened, that is, not...