Good news! It’s not too late to make cheese for the holiday season. Caerphilly is one that needs only 3 weeks to ripen and it just gets better and sharper after that. Recipes for Caerphilly abound, including 3 in the archives of this very blog if you do a search for it – Caerphilly with Suzanne McMinn in 2011, Caerphilly with Enola G. in 2012,
A Cheese Lover’s Thanksgiving
We love the traditional Thanksgiving meal as much as anyone, but this year, we feel like shaking it up a bit. Maybe it has to do with the way our lives have been overturned by the pandemic or maybe it’s just one of those years. Whatever the reason, we feel like going rogue and we’ve decided to share the madness with you. We have prepared
38 Cheesy Valentine’s Day Cards
Valentine’s Day is coming and this year, many of us will be ordering our cards by mail. Why not? Great cards abound, particularly at Etsy – the center of the homemade universe. We thought it would be fun to pick out a few of the best cards for cheese makers and cheese lovers. Some of them have the same words, but different pictures (as in
Fun with Cheese Crackers!
We try to give you informative articles in this blog but sometimes we just have to share our silly ideas! We thought of this activity for the holidays but realized it would be a good hostess gift any time of the year. Why cheese crackers? Cheese crackers make excellent gifts for 3 reasons: They’re healthier than cookies and many of us are fighting the “Battle
Strawberry Cobbler for Valentine’s Day
It’s the sweetest time of year again! We combined a couple of recipes to come up with this one – simple and yummy and just the treat for your sweetie on Valentine’s Day. Strawberry Cobbler Ingredients: 8 cups strawberries, hulled and sliced in half 1/3 cup sugar, brown sugar or coconut sugar 1/4 tsp salt 2 tsp vanilla 1 tbsp butter, diced into small cubes
Make Ahead Cheesy Kale Gratin
You may have noticed a theme here with all the “make ahead” dishes I’ve been sharing recently. I am, in fact, getting ready to host a rather large gathering at my home on Christmas. (Ricki, the Cheese Queen laughs at me when I say it’s a large gathering (20), because she regularly hosts parties with 50 -100 people. So, everything’s relative and maybe I’m making
Deal Alert! 12 Days of Cheese Sale
In 2016, Whole Foods came out with their list of the 12 Cheeses You Can’t Live Without, chosen by their global cheese buyer, Cathy Strange.* It’s a very impressive list!** That year, Whole Foods held their first 12 Days of Cheese sale and they repeated it the year after. This year, the list is as impressive as ever with 12 fabulous cheeses offered at half price
Gluten-Free Limoncello No-Bake Mini Cheesecakes
We posted Bob Albers’s recipe for limoncello last month (click here), and it was outrageously! delicious. I was looking for a way to use it in a dessert for the holidays and I wanted at least one of my desserts to be gluten-free. So, I ended up combining several different recipes into this one. It’s still over a month until I plan to serve it