Fun Along The Whey

Mother and Daughter Foodbloggers on Making Mozzarella

Lauren Kincke and her mother love to make Mozzarella! Lauren is a second generation foodie. She and her mother, Dee Kincke, have a blog they call “Fresh From the Heart of Texas.” Lauren has he...

Munster Anyone? Suzanne McMinn Did it Again!

There’s snow in Appalachia, but our “Chick in the Road” is still moving forward with her quest. As you know, Suzanne McMinn has accepted our challenge to make a new “hard” cheese every month unti...

Making Mozzarella with Anya, Age 10

If you don’t believe that making Mozzarella is so easy a child can do it, here’s your proof! Anya Firisen is 10 years old and she already knows more about cheese than most of us. Ricki met her whe...

Cheese Challenge - Monterey Jack

Suzanne McMinn is One for One in the Big Challenge! She did it! So, now she’s closer to her goal to become a GREAT home cheesemaker. Suzanne documented her experience in the article below. This...

The Greening of Gavin's Wensleydale

Back to Basics in Australia Many of you have probably read a wonderful blog called The Greening of Gavin, written by an Australian father of 4 who watched “An Inconvenient Truth,” in 2006, and dec...

Larry Todd on Making Gouda

Flinging Wax in His Retirement! Larry Todd in Billings, Montana knows what he’s doing when it comes to making cheese. But I had to laugh when he told me about a little accident he had with his...

Homemade Velveeta

Are you serious? We are. Our official policy is that there is no law against consenting adults making Velveeta in the privacy of their own homes. Yes, it’s embarrassing, but the truth is that som...

Making Farmstead Cheddar

Jayne Maker Warwick, Rhode Island We first got to know Jayne in April when she was our “Interview #4 with a New Cheese Maker.” Well, she isn’t so “new” anymore. After mastering Mozzarella, Ricot...

Fromage Blanc with Terrie Travers

She Hails From Butler, Tennessee Terrie Travers wrote in with a question recently and we ended up asking her to do this interview and to show us how she makes Fromage Blanc. From what she told us,...

Fresh White Cheese Recipe from Wendy Akin

Akin Farm Akin Farm is an “pick yourself” organic vegetable farm in Terrell, TX (near Dallas). This year, they expect to plant a lot of vegetables: artichokes, basil, green beans, lima beans,wax b...

Provolone Success Story!

This is a letter written by one of our customers, Carlo Milano, to Ricki: Thanks for all this (blog and newsletter) – your book got me going a good thirteen years ago. I avoided “soft-ripened” che...

Latvian Easter Cheese

PASKA We received this cheese from Brent Alderman Sterste, whose Grandmother and Great Aunt used to make it. It’s a different recipe from the one in our book, Home Cheesemaking, p. 205, so y...

Whey Cheeses - Prim-ost, Mysost, Gjetost

Part 1 – About Prim-ost Many years ago we received an anonymous request from one of our customers: I found your website and I am wondering if you have a recipe for a Norwegian cheese my Grandmothe...

Ricotta Salata!

Here is another great article from Andrew Wilder’s I Make Cheese blog. It had originally been submitted by a guest contributor, David Greenberg. For many years I’ve been an avid amateur bread bak...

Horseradish Cheddar & Jalapeno Cheddar

We found this article at a great blog- Andrew Wilder’s I Make Cheese. With Superbowl Sunday coming up, this seemed like a good time to post it. Yesterday my friend Dana and I made a special batc...

Ricki's Coeur a la Creme Recipe

Valentine’s Day holds a special place in Ricki Carroll’s heart. If you have been to her workshops, you have met her sweetie, Jamie (otherwise known as “he who builds everything, fixes anything, s...

Making Burrata

By Jo at Hands Free Cooking (Many thanks to Joanna Miles for sharing this article with us.) A couple months ago, I wrote about my attempts to make burrata, an artisan Italian cheese that is delici...