Fun Along The Whey

Dandelion Hill Farm in Sheffield, MA

Melissa and Peter Martin have been raising goats and growing their own food for over 26 years, ever since they discovered that one of their 4 children couldn’t digest cow’s milk. A neighbor gave ...

Bob's Homemade Curd Cutter - Part 2

After Bob sent us his first post – Bob’s Homemade Horizontal Curd Cutter, he decided to make some improvements. Start with the first article and you will find that the two of them work nicely toget...

Stretching the Waistband of Your Food Budget

By Cookbook Author – Maggie Parkinson* This month’s drivel doodle is all about you and your kitchen. In my mind, while thinking about what I wanted to say, I had mentally dubbed it “The fast and ...

Tin Can Method for Smoking Cheese

Claude Garneau’s smoker in a 28 oz tomato can In 2010, we did an article about smoking cheese (click here) which has directions for making a cold smoker. A lot has changed since we posted that a...

Terry Dinnan in Charlotte, Vermont

Terrence with his wife, Marty Illick at his 66th birthday party. This summer, we posted an article (Using Wildflowers In/On Your Cheese) with pictures of Terry Dinnan’s fabulous goat cheeses. He...

Maggie's Mac & Cheese Challenge

Maggie Parkinson used to specialize in low-carb cooking (more below) and she wrote Carb-Less in Seattle well before low-carb diets became the norm. We did an interview with her in 2013 (click here...

Otter Creek Homestead in Danby, Vermont

Three years ago, Julia and Frank McKeon bought a house and some land and moved from Albany to Danby, Vermont. Their goal was to have a farm where they could grow their own food and raise their ow...

Bob Albers in Mandeville, Louisiana

Bob has shared a lot of good information with us in the last few months. First, he sent us his mother-in-law’s recipe for Creole Cream Cheese (a Louisiana specialty) and then, he sent us an essay...

Easy Bechamel Sauce by Maggie Parkinson

Maggie is a cookbook author and actress who now lives in Poulsbo, Washington with her husband. They just built a gorgeous house there and Maggie has a state-of-the-art kitchen where she now creates...

Cate Hill Orchard in Vermont

Josh and Maria in the milking parlor Maria Schumann and Josh Karp own a farm and orchard in Greensboro, Vermont (although their post office box is in Craftsbury Common). Josh was brought up on t...

Hudson Flower Cheese

Courtesy of Murray’s Cheese Every month since March, we have been featuring a cheese chosen for us by cheesemonger, Marc Freshman at Murray’s Cheese in New York City for our 2016 Cheese Give-A-Wh...

David Cerates in Tower City, PA

David Cerates doesn’t like to blow his own horn. But, he blew us away when he sent us two pictures of his cheese. All he said was, “Here are a couple of wheels I made, white longhorn and yellow ...

Pedro Collins in Stoke Lyne, Oxfordshire, UK

Pedro and Rosie Remember when you were a child – how you would pretend to make things and you would give them to people who would pretend they were thrilled to be getting them? There’s just some...

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 ...

Lynda and Claude Garneau in Ottawa, Canada

Claude and Lynda standing in front of the cave he built from a closet. What a Team! Claude buys the equipment, sets it up and builds whatever Lynda needs to make her fabulous cheese. (Lucky lady...

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...

Dan Crowther, Roller Derby Husband and Cheese Maker

Dan Crowther lives in the small village of Valley Falls, NY (population around 450). It’s about 1/2 way between Albany, NY and Bennington, VT. When he first saw our article about Kizzma, the Roll...

Blueberry Lemon Ricotta Cookies

These blueberry lemon ricotta cookies puff up as they bake and have an amazing taste that’s closer to a cake than cookies. If you were to cut the top off a muffin and eat it, it would probably have...

Miranda Bradley, Roller Derby Cheese Maker

By Cateland White (Note: Cateland is a writer (and a cheese maker) who lives in Las Vegas with her husband and her daughter, Bugsy. For more about her – click here.) I’ve known Miranda Bradley s...

Rebecca Brill in Maugansville, MD

Rebecca with her husband-Matthew, her son-Oliver and her daughter-Sinclair We first got to know Rebecca when she shared with us her method for making ricotta with a sous vide circulator (click he...

Are Dinner Kit Deliveries For You?

I have to confess I’m not much of a cook – it’s so complicated from the shopping to the planning to the making, etcetera, etcetera. And, unfortunately, my husband is similarly “cooking challenged....

How to Revive Furniture with Fabric Markers

I was shopping at our local Salvation Army 6 months ago and I saw a swivel chair for $25. It seemed solid, but the fabric was completely faded. I had an idea! What if I went over it with fabric...

Jack Aldridge in Iowa

I recently added Jack Aldridge to my list of the most fun and interesting cheese makers in the entire world. I admit – this is a long list, but Jack is up there at the top. His energy and enthus...

Marc Freshman, Cheesemonger at Murray's

Marc Freshman is the official cheesemonger for our 2016 Cheese Give-A-Whey which starts March 1st. Every time you place an order with us, you will be entered in a drawing for a pound of cave-aged...