Fun Along The Whey

5 Fresh Spring Cheeses to Make at Home | Easy, Seasonal Cheese Recipes

Spring: A Season of Renewal (and Cheese!) Spring is a season of beginnings. The days grow longer, the soil warms, and ever...

Marybeth Bullington's Orange-Walnut Holiday Cheese

Marybeth’s fabulous holiday cheese. Good news! It’s not too late to make cheese for the holiday season. Caerphilly is o...

Making Cotija (Mexican Parmesan)

Lately, it seems like every recipe I see online and feel like making has Cotija in it. The corn dishes, in particular, ap...

Zorana's Queso Llanero (Venezuelan Hard Cheese)

Zorana Marquez Zorana lives in Humble, Texas. We interviewed her a few weeks ago (click here) and in the interview she ...

Valencay-Style Cheese by Marybeth Bullington

We interviewed Marybeth Bullington of Elfin Acres in Creswell, Oregon recently (click here). Marybeth gets a LOT of fresh...

Making Pecorino Toscano and Variations by Yoel Blumberger

Yoel stirring curds One fun aspect of a blog that like this is that we hear from people all over the world (like Yoel B...

Cheddar Recipe From England - 1934

Nick Fordy with his book of recipes. When we interviewed Nick Fordy in Tingewick, England, he mentioned that he had lear...

Mari's Fresh Brazilian Cheeses - Minas & Requeijão Cremoso

Mariana eating chestnuts which grow well in Slovenia. Mariana Veiga is from Brazil originally. She and her husband and ...

Keynes Cheese Recipe by Kurt Denke

We would like to thank Kurt Denke in Seattle, Washington for sending us this recipe. We will be interviewing Kurt soon, s...

Vivian Lucero's Whey Caramel Sauce

We love it when you send us recipes! We interviewed Vivian Lucero from Otis, Oregon in April (click here). She’s a gourm...

Making Mozzarella in the Slow Cooker

Many thanks to Kathy Love in Tucson, Arizona for sharing her pictures from a demonstration she did showing how to make 30 ...

Amy's Lactic Cheese with Truffle Oil Variation

Amy Monette has a small farm in Reno, Nevada, with 2 milking goats. We’ll be posting a full interview with her (January ...

Anne's Clotted Cream

Anne Larsen in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia was excited when she realized she could make clotted cream in her Instant ...

How to Make Condensed Milk

Got milk? Here’s another way (besides cheese) to preserve it. Essentially, you simply add sugar and remove 50% of the wa...

Say Cheese, a Kid's Guide to Cheese Making

Cheese Making Book for Kids We have exciting news! The Cheese Queen (aka Ricki Carroll) and her daughter, Sarah Carroll ...

100 Wheys to Make Yogurt in Your Instant Pot

There are as many ways to make yogurt as there are stars in the sky! We have 2 great recipes (beginner and intermediate) ...

Making Ricotta by Howard Dewsbury

Our good friend, Howard Dewsbury contributed his first article to our blog in 2016 – Howard’s Own “Small Cheese” Recipe. ...

Julie Ott's Goat Milk Yogurt

Julie Ott lives in North Berwick, Maine. She raises goats and makes a wide variety of cheeses with the milk. She has alr...

Cooked Curd Cream Cheese

This recipe comes from Home Cheese Making, written by our very own Cheese Queen, Ricki Carroll. It yields 2 pounds of cr...

Hot Whey Toddy

Now you know we’ve gone over the edge! But, whey not? It’s cold outside here in western Massachusetts and if ever there ...

Creole Cream Cheese Recipe #2 by Bob Albers

During the 36+ years we have been in business, we have posted many recipes for Creole cream cheese. You will find the mos...

Storing Butter - Part 4

This is the last in a 4 part series about butter – Making It (1), Flavoring It (2), and Molding It (3). Storing Butter Ho...

Molding Butter - Part 3

Easter Chick Mold available at Poland By Mail for $29.95 This is the “strictly for fun” segment of this 4 part series o...

Flavoring Butter - Part 2

Welcome to our 4-part series about butter. Part 1 is about making butter, Part 3 is about molding it and Part 4 is about s...