Fun Along The Whey

Since 1978 we have been sharing the joy of home cheese making. With over 100 step by step cheese making recipes, helpful guides and easy to use supplies it's fun and easy to make cheese at home.

Cheese Making RecipeCreole Cream Cheese with Bob Albers

Creole Cream Cheese with Bob Albers

“The only thing better than making cheese is eating cheese.” Bob Albers of Mandeville, Louisiana is a retired electronics engineer who has traveled all around the country and the world. When he ...

Cheese Making RecipePaul Stovall and His Butterkase

Paul Stovall and His Butterkase

Paul Stovall (67) of Sonora, California is the Frank Sinatra of the cheese making world- doing it his whey! What do we mean? Well, he makes his own cultures and his own molds and his own mats an...

Cheese Making RecipeHow to Make Ricotta with Your Sous Vide Circulator

How to Make Ricotta with Your Sous Vide Circulator

The sous vide method has taken the cheese making world by storm! (In case you aren’t familiar with it, sous vide is the process of cooking food in plastic bags which are submerged in hot water.) ...

Cheese Making RecipeChocolate Cheese from Ela Duban in Poland

Chocolate Cheese from Ela Duban in Poland

Ela Duban who lives outside Warsaw, Poland began making cheese when she found a Polish edition of our book, Home Cheese Making. She was the mother of 4 young girls who are now 6, 8, 11 and 12 yea...

Cheese Making RecipeChocolate Neufchatel by Ed Jefferis

Chocolate Neufchatel by Ed Jefferis

My wife, Judi, and I live in Oxford, Pennsylvania which is an hour south of Philadelphia. Oxford is a small rural town, close to Lancaster, Pennsylvania and we have a number of Amish neighbors. ...

Cheese Making RecipeLapte Acru, Moldovan Yogurt

Lapte Acru, Moldovan Yogurt

Recently, there was an article in our local newspaper (click here) about a Moldovan woman who is making yogurt here in the United States the way she did in Eastern Europe. The article (by Richie ...

Cheese Making RecipeCameron Arsenault (16) Making Mozzarella

Cameron Arsenault (16) Making Mozzarella

“It sounds like fun to me!” (And it was!) It seems to us that by now everybody should know how it is easy to make Mozzarella with our 30 minute recipe. After all, we’ve been selling our kit for ...

Cheese Making RecipeCaciotta with Saffron

Caciotta with Saffron

Joy Metcalf We are very grateful to Joy Metcalf of Northport, Maine for sharing her recipe with us. It looks absolutely fabulous, but we have not yet had the opportunity to try it. If you...

Cheese Making RecipeVegan Cheddar with Chives

Vegan Cheddar with Chives

Christy Grecsek A lot of folks are vegan because they don’t want to eat animal products and others can’t eat dairy products because of allergies and stomach problems. No matter what the r...

Cheese Making RecipeMozzarella with Non-Fat Milk and Cream

Mozzarella with Non-Fat Milk and Cream

Jessica with her 2 year old daughter and her robot scarecrow I love to find good blog articles about making cheese. The pictures and the first-hand accounts bring the process to life. I ...

Cheese Making RecipePanela Cheese

Panela Cheese

We recently had a request for a panela recipe which we posted in the May issue of our Moosletter. One of our readers, Mona Anderson from San Jose, California sent us a translation of a YouTube vi...

Cheese Making RecipeChocolate Cheese by Kim Odland

Chocolate Cheese by Kim Odland

Kim Odland We love to receive recipes from cheese makers. We can’t test them all, but we can share them with you. (Be sure to leave a comment if you make this one.) Our technical advisor...

Cheese Making RecipeGlass House Blue Cheese by Andy Cumberland

Glass House Blue Cheese by Andy Cumberland

Glass House Blue at 4 weeks Andy Cumberland has so many fingers in the “back to basics” pie that we can’t keep track of them all- aquaponics, composting, sausage making, bread baking and c...

Cheese Making Recipe"Cooked" Cream Cheese with Patrice Lewis

"Cooked" Cream Cheese with Patrice Lewis

Patrice Lewis Patrice Lewis, calls her popular blog- Rural Revolution – In-your-face stuff from an opinionated rural north Idaho housewife. She describes herself as “a practical constituti...

Cheese Making RecipeFrank Masciulli's Marbled "Swissby" Cheese

Frank Masciulli's Marbled "Swissby" Cheese

Frank Masciulli Whatever Works! Frank Masciulli of Chelmsford, Massachusetts just started making his own cheese 5 or 6 months ago. He’s an engineer and he told us that he overheard a fe...

Cheese Making RecipeGift Idea #4 - Goat Milk Cheddar

Gift Idea #4 - Goat Milk Cheddar

This is the fourth in a series of gift ideas for the upcoming holidays. There’s still plenty of time to make this cheese and give it to a lucky friend. We know SO many goat owners who haven’t fou...

Cheese Making RecipeMaking Greek Style Yogurt

Making Greek Style Yogurt

Booklet that comes with our Greek Yogurt Maker With the right tools, everything is easy! If you have 1/2 gallon of milk, any one of our three different yogurt cultures, a Yogotherm and ...

Cheese Making RecipeCheddar with Marci Blubaugh at Amazing Graze

Cheddar with Marci Blubaugh at Amazing Graze

Marci Blubaugh Mike and Marci Blubaugh have a farm in Martinsburg, Ohio called Amazing Graze. They sell grass fed beef and lamb, pastured broilers and turkeys, pork, eggs and some produce...

Cheese Making RecipeGift Idea #1, Farmstead Cheese in a Glass Food Preserver

Gift Idea #1, Farmstead Cheese in a Glass Food Preserver

It’s time to start making those holiday gifts! In the home cheese making biz, you have to keep one eye on the future and one eye on the moment. And, in this particular moment, we’re approximat...

Cheese Making RecipeFontina with The Weekend Artisan

Fontina with The Weekend Artisan

Douglas Lumley I have done two posts in this past year about Douglas Lumley and his wife, Jan (one with their recipe for Asiago Pepato and another with their pictures of Tuscany). They ha...

Cheese Making RecipeCream Cheese from McCorrie Lane Kitchen

Cream Cheese from McCorrie Lane Kitchen

Jocelyn McHenry Arruda A different take on a very easy cheese Jocelyn McHenry Arruda of Portsmouth, Rhode Island is a mother who wants to eat healthy and simply. She shares her recipes at...

Cheese Making RecipeKefir Cheese with Amanda Feifer

Kefir Cheese with Amanda Feifer

I don’t always acknowledge this, but there are actually a lot of fermented foods in the world besides artisan cheeses! Kefir grains, for example, are loaded with highly beneficial probiotic bacter...

Cheese Making RecipePurple Onion Feta with Andy Cumberland

Purple Onion Feta with Andy Cumberland

Andy Cumberland with his Drunken Nut Cheese Back to Basics Down Under I asked Andy to send me a picture of himself making cheese and I received this – I didn’t get the time to make chees...

Cheese Making RecipeBrie with Peggy Ployhar

Brie with Peggy Ployhar

Peggy Ployhar, from Kenyon, Minnesota has a lot going on! She and her husband and their three young children run a “hobby farm” with an apartment they rent out for farm stays in the summer. Accor...

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