I found this recipe when I was looking for a dish to take to an outdoor, socially distanced pandemic meeting. I needed something where I could separate it on the platter so people would not have to touch the adjoining pieces. It worked perfectly! This yummy dish would ordinarily be an appetizer, but, in the summer, appetizers frequently become light meals. Make as many as
Marinating Chevre
Here in New England, spring is “baby goat season” and we typically have an abundance of goat’s milk. It’s a great time to make marinated chevre. Of course, if you don’t happen to have any goat milk, you can buy a log of chevre any time to make this delicacy. It is absolutely the perfect hostess gift. Making Chevre The best recipe, in our opinion,
Leslie’s Goat Cheese Spread
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 about herself: “I live in beautiful rural VT, where I grow much of the food for my family. (I am married with two mostly grown children, one working
Bluma’s Chevre Variations
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, but until then, she makes chevre with pasteurized goat’s milk she buys at a farmer’s market and with raw goat’s milk she gets from a friend who has goats. She and her husband raised 5 grown children. Now, they
6 Easy Chevre Appetizers
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. (Directions are on the packet.) We even sell a Goat Cheese Kit with everything you’ll need. If you don’t have goat’s milk, you can do the
Using Wildflowers in/on Your Cheese
This is gorgeous! The intense colors of wildflowers against the bright white of the goat cheese make this cheese spectacular. If you believe, as I do, that beauty enhances taste, this could be the next step you take with your homemade goat cheese. 1. Wildflowers in Your Cheese Terry Dinnan, a home cheese maker in Charlotte, Vermont is using powdered wildflowers (along with ash) to
3 Easy Grilled Goat Cheese Recipes
If you’ve made your own fresh goat cheese (chevre), you know it couldn’t be easier. If you haven’t made it yet, what are you waiting for?! Our technical advisor, Jim Wallace has written the most detailed recipe for chevre in the entire world – click here. It only requires a few ingredients or, to make it even easier, we sell a Goat Cheese Kit with
Simple Chevre Cheesecake
Something yummy to make with a gallon of goat’s milk … Every Tuesday morning, I pick up 1 1/2 gallons of goat’s milk from a neighbor’s farm. I use one gallon to make this cheesecake and 1/2 gallon to make my kefir. Sometimes I finish the cheesecake by Tuesday night and eat it Wednesday morning. Other times, I let it set and drain longer, so