You Can Do It! There is no finer way to express your love for family and friends than with the gift of homemade cheese. Everybody loves it (even vegetarians) and when you serve it to guests, they swoon. The question is – what can you make between now and the holidays if you factor in the aging time? Answer – A LOT! Cheese generally ages
Bob’s Homemade Limoncello
Now is a great time to start making holiday gifts (like the homemade vanilla extract we made a few weeks ago). All you need is the bottles and some cute labels and everybody’s happy (this drink, in particular, will make everybody happy because it’s 100 proof!). Bob Albers in Louisiana is always busy making cool fermented food and he has kindly shared many of his
Holiday Party 2017 with Our Team of Veterans
The Northampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Leeds, MA has a very successful Compensated Work Therapy Program for veterans. We have partnered with this program for several years and every year we have great fun hosting a holiday party with the veterans and the staff at our shop. We eat and play games (where we generally make complete fools of ourselves!) and we send them
Raclette Melter – A Cool, “Hot” Holiday Gift
Our Canadian friends, Claude and Linda Garneau sent us pictures recently of their latest “toy” – a raclette melter. Claude gave it to Linda for their 40th anniversary and it struck us as the perfect holiday gift for cheese makers. What is Raclette? Raclette comes from the French word “racler”which means “to scrape.” In that sense, it means a dish with any melted cheese scraped
Holiday Gifts for Cheese Makers
As they say, “Tis the Cheeson” for giving gifts. Is someone on your list a cheese maker (or a passionate cheese lover)? If so, here are a few ideas: 9″ Poplar Cheese Box, $3.39 click here Glass Blown Cheese Wedge Ornament, $9.99 click here Cheeses of the World Tea Towel, $13.13 click here Mousetrap Cheese Cutting Board, $14.40 click here Personalized Blank Notebook, $15.00 click
Halloween Pumpkin-Cream Cheese Truffles
These are too cute!!! It seems like whenever I find a recipe online, there is always something I want to change in it. So, I end up going to other websites to look for variations. That happened with this recipe – I found so many different versions of it that I decided to share my own and to include some of the many variations I
Easy, Cheesy Halloween Appetizers
Creativity Abounds! Cream cheese seems to be the main building block in most holiday appetizers and, the good news is – you can easily make your own with our simple recipe – click here. All you really need is rennet, buttermilk culture, and calcium chloride. We have chosen a few of the coolest and easiest Halloween appetizers we could find. If you have your own
Happy National Cheese Day-June 4th!
Do you know why a person is sometimes referred to as a “Big Wheel” or “The Big Cheese?” It means that person can afford to buy the whole wheel of cheese! We might never have known that if it wasn’t for National Cheese Day. Websites come up with this kind of information on these special days and we all benefit. (That little bit of info