Posts Tagged ‘cooking from scratch’

Homemade Fresh Cheese

January 14, 2010

Homemade Cheese

Remember back when I said that we would post more details of our New Year’s Eve dinner later? I figured now that we’re halfway through January, it was time to actually post about something from that dinner, so here we go…

One of the potentially more ambitious things we decided to do for this dinner was to make our own cheese. It wasn’t something we’d really considered before stumbling upon the instructions in our Bittman cookbook How To Cook Everything Vegetarian, but as soon as we saw it, we knew we wanted to try it. He made it look so easy! And ya know what? It really was. It’s something I’ll definitely do again, though with a few tweaks. Here’s the process:

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