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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.

Recipes with CheeseCheesecake with strawberries on top in glass pan

Martha Stewart's Amazing Strawberry Cake

There is absolutely no cheese in this recipe, but, I just had to share it with you! It isn’t new, but it’s new to me and it meets all my criteria: It must be easy. It must have something healthy...

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Martha's Puffy Omelette with Roasted Grapes

Martha Harrington of Conway, Massachusetts owned and operated a bed & breakfast (The Nestle Inn) for 10 years where she dazzled her guests with fabulous meals. Needless to say, they came from...

Cheese Making RecipeMaking Ricotta by Howard Dewsbury

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. He is retired and living in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Besides cheese, he a...

Recipes with CheeseKing Cake with Soft Cheese Filling

King Cake with Soft Cheese Filling

Mardi Gras season started January 6th, so, technically, this article is a little late. However, we should get a pass because we live in New England, a long way from New Orleans, and Mardi Gras is n...

Recipes with CheeseChocolate/Peanut Butter Coeur a la Creme

Chocolate/Peanut Butter Coeur a la Creme

I know this is not any kind of authentic, but what can you do when your Valentine loves peanut butter? My husband eats like a 5 year old! Every morning he has peanut butter and jelly on toast fo...

Recipes with CheeseWheys to Use Those Hard Cheese Rinds

Wheys to Use Those Hard Cheese Rinds

Photo from Happily Unprocessed Waste not cheese rinds – want not flavor! We love to eat the rinds 99.9% of the time. But, sometimes, they’re just too hard to bite into, or even too hard to grate...

Recipes with CheeseHalloween Pumpkin-Cream Cheese Truffles

Halloween Pumpkin-Cream Cheese Truffles

These are too cute!!! It seems like whenever I find a recipe online, there is always something I want to change in it. So, I end up going to other websites to look for variations. That happened ...

Recipes with CheeseEasy, Cheesy Halloween Appetizers

Easy, Cheesy Halloween Appetizers

Olive Aliens from Hungry Happenings. Draw faces with black food coloring marker and soak in the brine for a few minutes until they look otherworldly. Serve with cheese (of course!). Creativity ...

Recipes with CheeseMaggie's Easy Version of Tikka Masala

Maggie's Easy Version of Tikka Masala

Mock Tikka Masala By Maggie Parkinson* An easy, fast Indian curry … not authentic but yummy! When I first came to Seattle as an Indian food lover, I was not happy to find that there was only ONE I...

Recipes with CheesePerfect Pasta for a Summer Day

Perfect Pasta for a Summer Day

This new recipe from the New York Times (click here) is easy to make on a hot summer day. The heat from the pasta melts the cheese, so there is no need to fire up the oven – it’s all done on the ...

Cheese Making RecipeTurkish Dessert with Kemalpasa

Turkish Dessert with Kemalpasa

Made in a pie plate. The cream tastes like rice pudding (without the rice). The “cookies” in it are a cross between cookies and cake. It’s not as sweet as most of our desserts here in the US. ...

Recipes with CheeseBob's Oyster Pork Pie

Bob's Oyster Pork Pie

Oyster Pork Pie By Bob Albers* Many families have an heirloom recipe. Mine is no exception. This recipe for oyster pork pie was handed down through the generations, we think, from Bernadina Albe...

Recipes with CheeseHow to Make a HUGE Grilled Cheese Sandwich!

How to Make a HUGE Grilled Cheese Sandwich!

I saw a video about this and thought it would make a great activity to do with my 10 year old nephew. It was! The video went fast, and we ended up doing everything wrong (although it came out aw...

Recipes with CheeseCreamy Kale Caesar Salad by Sara Hunt

Creamy Kale Caesar Salad by Sara Hunt

About Sara: Sara works for an artisan creamery in northern Utah and she has her own hobby sheep dairy (Three Point Farm in Logan, Utah). She sells sheep shares, lamb, eggs, wool and her shearing...

Recipes with CheeseMexican Cheese Soup

Mexican Cheese Soup

Submitted by Cindy Bighorse, a retired software engineer in Fort Worth, Texas (cindybighorse.com) This is an amazing story! Be sure to read it before you make this lovely soup… Cindy with her si...

Fellow Cheese MakersMaggie Parkinson's Souped-Up Soup

Maggie Parkinson's Souped-Up Soup

Note: This article is one of many which Maggie Parkinson of Poulsbo, Washington has contributed to our blog.* Today we’re going to talk about soup….One of the world’s GREAT soups. Soup à l’Oigno...

Recipes with CheeseGorgonzola Cheese Straws by Deon Matzen

Gorgonzola Cheese Straws by Deon Matzen

About Deon: I am a painter (see Self Portrait of an Artists Painting a Silverstreak below) and painting instructor living on Whidbey Island in Washington State, teaching retirees at the local Sen...

GoatsLeslie's Goat Cheese Spread

Leslie's Goat Cheese Spread

Leslie Silver from rural Vermont sent us this recipe. She makes it every year for a holiday party and she always gets rave reviews and requests for the recipe. We asked Leslie to tell us a little...

Recipes with CheeseBrie Pie

Brie Pie

Elizabeth Scheller from English, Indiana sent us this recipe for Brie Pie with either orange marmalade or apricot preserves. She is a 31 year old dental hygienist. She and her husband (Justin) h...

Fellow Cheese Makers3 Cheesy Holiday Desserts

3 Cheesy Holiday Desserts

Last month, in our fabulous Moos-Letter, we asked y’all to send us your favorite recipes using your very own homemade cheese. We were thrilled when we received whey more than we had anticipated! ...

Fellow Cheese MakersGoat Cheese Tart

Goat Cheese Tart

Barbara Adams of Meadow Wild Farm in Barnum, Minnesota sent us this recipe. She told us, “You can use any combo of veggies in this tart that you have on hand. I’ve used mushrooms, roasted red pepp...

Fellow Cheese MakersPork Steak with Cheese Sauce

Pork Steak with Cheese Sauce

Ava Smith Ava Smith in Connoquenessing, Pennsylvania (a little town about a half hour north of Pittsburgh) sent us this fabulous recipe. She found it originally on Pinterest, but then adapted i...

Fellow Cheese MakersIced Ricotta Cookies

Iced Ricotta Cookies

This recipe was submitted to us by Susan O’Dwyer in Harrisville, New Hampshire. We interviewed Susan in 2014 (click here) after she had written as essay for our 35th Anniversary Essay Contest. W...

Goats6 Easy Chevre Appetizers

6 Easy Chevre Appetizers

Chevre is the easiest of the soft cheeses to make. You basically add one of our packets of chevre culture to a gallon of goat’s milk, wait for it to set and then drain the curds in butter muslin. ...

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