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 RecipeSoy "Cheese" with Louise Dutton

Soy "Cheese" with Louise Dutton

Louise M. Dutton This is the most inexpensive cheese alternative you will ever eat! Normally we keep our focus on dairy products (because that’s our area of expertise), but we get a lot of...

Fellow Cheese MakersBetty Kriel in West Texas

Betty Kriel in West Texas

Betty Kriel having a picnic near the McDonald Observatory She was inspired to learn how to make cheese while living in South Africa … Betty and Herman Kriel live at an observatory! The Mc...

Fellow Cheese MakersMaking 50 Medieval Cheeses - Kimetha Loidolt

Making 50 Medieval Cheeses - Kimetha Loidolt

Kimetha as Waldetrudis von Metten For those of you who don’t happen to be historians, that’s from 600-1600AD (a few years ago!) Kimetha Loidolt (also known as Waldetrudis von Metten) is a ...

EquipmentAdam & PJ Bauer in Alaska

Adam & PJ Bauer in Alaska

PJ and Adam at their daughter’s wedding in July It isn’t hard to find a cool place to age your cheese in Alaska! PJ first wrote to us when we asked our Moosletter readers for their recomme...

Fellow Cheese MakersChevre Truffles with The Goat Cheese Lady

Chevre Truffles with The Goat Cheese Lady

She knows her way around a goat! Lindsey Aparicio milks her own goats twice a day. And she raises chickens (for which she and her husband sell a variety of very cute chicken houses). A mother of ...

Fellow Cheese MakersCaroline Abbott Revisited

Caroline Abbott Revisited

Caroline in her new cheese kitchen Life after the Year of Yeast Contamination… Back in May, we did an article about Caroline Abbott in Otsego, Michigan who had “mystery holes” in her goat ...

EventsSandie McDonald -  Making Cheese and Teaching How

Sandie McDonald - Making Cheese and Teaching How

She’s made every cheese in our book! Sandie McDonald began making cheese in 1981 and she has been ordering supplies from us ever since. Her copy of our book (Home Cheese Making) is so old, it has...

Fellow Cheese MakersThe Year of Cheese with Suzanne McMinn

The Year of Cheese with Suzanne McMinn

A year ago, we challenged Suzanne to make a different cheese every month and she accepted the challenge. We had noticed her fun website and her easy going writing style, so it was a “no-brainer” f...

Fellow Cheese MakersChevre and Lemon Goat Cheese Cake from Jules Food

Chevre and Lemon Goat Cheese Cake from Jules Food

Jules and Ruby-What a Dynamic Duo! We love Jules Food. The pictures are fabulous and Ruby does a fine job of writing, even without opposable thumbs. This past September, we featured an article J...

Fellow Cheese MakersUpinngil Farm in Gill, Massachusetts

Upinngil Farm in Gill, Massachusetts

Sorrel Hatch and her father, Cliff serving samples at a cheese tasting last winter Raw milk, cheese, grass fed beef, strawberries, jams, whole grains (flour and wheat berries), beebalm an...

Fellow Cheese MakersRobiola with Simona Carini

Robiola with Simona Carini

Simona Carini Her cheese just gets better and better! We first featured Simona as one of our guest bloggers last June (English Style Coulommiers). Then, later that summer, she attended on...

Fellow Cheese MakersA Tour of SideHill Farm in Ashfield, MA

A Tour of SideHill Farm in Ashfield, MA

Yogurt anyone? Paul Lacinski and Amy Klippenstein have managed to build a successful yogurt business with 15 cows, 23 acres of leased grazing land and their own ingenuity. They make and sell over...

Cheese Making RecipeLactic Cheese With Suzanne McMinn

Lactic Cheese With Suzanne McMinn

Glory Bee wearing her stylish “calf weaner” An Easy, All-Purpose Soft Cheese This month, Suzanne is back in the cheese making saddle again. She’s getting serious about her cheese and Glor...

Cheese Making RecipeMaking Cultured Butter with Raw Milk

Making Cultured Butter with Raw Milk

A little culture never hurts! Sweet cream butter is yummy, but cultured butter has the addition of good bacteria. So, why not add it in? It’s very easy to culture your cream before making it into...

Cheese Making Recipe30 Minute Mozzarella With Nancy Charbonneau

30 Minute Mozzarella With Nancy Charbonneau

A Newcomer to Cheesemaking I recently received my first Mozzarella Kit – delivered straight to my door! I’m a newcomer to cheesemaking, and Jeri – this blog’s author and cheesemaker extraordinaire...

Cheese Making RecipeCamembert with The Mad Fermentationist

Camembert with The Mad Fermentationist

If it’s fermented- he makes it! If you make your own beer, chances are you’re aware of Mike Tosmeire, the Mad Fermentationist. He has loads of recipes on his website for making beer, hundreds of ...

Fellow Cheese MakersTaproot Commons Farm in Cummington, MA

Taproot Commons Farm in Cummington, MA

A very micro dairy! Sarah Fournier-Scanlon and Janice Wadron-Hansen took a big chance and started a farm. Now they’re living their dream of aspired sustainability in western Massachusetts. They...

EventsSuzanne McMinn on Teaching Mozzarella

Suzanne McMinn on Teaching Mozzarella

And a lot more! Suzanne held her first annual Chickens in the Road retreat last weekend, and it was so successful, she’ll be registering for the next one soon. Her participants came from far and w...

Cheese Making RecipeSkyr with Jules and Ruby

Skyr with Jules and Ruby

Ruby Ruby just raves about it! If you haven’t been to Julesfood.blogspot.com yet, check it out! Since 2008, Jules and her partner, Ruby, have been making interesting food and taking absol...

Fellow Cheese MakersKathleen Burek's Goat Milk Cheese

Kathleen Burek's Goat Milk Cheese

Kathleen Burek 30 years ago, she bought her first supplies from us! Kathleen Burek and her husband, John, from Montague, MA, have been living a “back-to-basics” lifestyle since they got ma...

Cheese Making Recipe30 Minute Mozzarella Again!

30 Minute Mozzarella Again!

It couldn’t be easier … We’ll be showing you how to make 30 Minute Mozzarella until the cows come home (forever)! It’s so easy and fun that we don’t think there’s any reason to stop. Sarah (Ricki...

Cheese Making RecipeCoeur a la Creme with Suzanne McMinn

Coeur a la Creme with Suzanne McMinn

Another challenge met! By Suzanne McMinn at Chickens in the Road This month, as part of my ever adventurous cheese challenge for New England Cheesemaking, I’m taking part in NEC’s month-long celeb...

Cheese Making RecipeCottage Cheese with Kevin Lee Jacobs

Cottage Cheese with Kevin Lee Jacobs

Lighter than air! There is a lot of good information at Kevin Jacob’s blog, A Garden for the House. That’s because Kevin says he “was introduced to gardening when he was no taller than a delphini...

Cheese Making Recipe30 Minute Burrata with Suzanne McMinn

30 Minute Burrata with Suzanne McMinn

Ooooh! Burrata!!! Suzanne has done it again this month, conquering yet another mouth-watering pasta filata cheese. Who knew that from the hills of West Virginia, home of Chickens in the Road, woul...

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