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Mexican Cheese Soup - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Mexican Cheese Soup

Submitted by Cindy Bighorse, a retired software engineer in Fort Worth, Texas (cindybighorse.com) This is an amazing stor...

Steve Benner in Doylestown, Pennsylvania - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Steve Benner in Doylestown, Pennsylvania

We first met Steve when he sent us a couple of pictures of his modified equipment with this note: What a great hobby! I ...

Eric Olson's Amazing Home Set-Up - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Eric Olson's Amazing Home Set-Up

Eric Olson’s father (Richard) was a cheese maker during a time in our country’s history when small cheese factories were ...

Maggie Parkinson's Souped-Up Soup - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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’...

Making Cheese with Nomads in Mongolia - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Cheese with Nomads in Mongolia

Mariana and Gantumar It’s hard for us to grasp how a young Brazilian mother managed to spend 2 days making cheese with a...

Cream Cheese Experiment by Bob Albers - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cream Cheese Experiment by Bob Albers

My Experiment By Bob Albers Excuse me while I don my mad scientist hat. I have previously submitted an article on Creole ...

Florentine Cheese Recipe by Sue Cummings - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Florentine Cheese Recipe by Sue Cummings

Sue Cummings of Kalispell, Montana teaches cheese making at Flathead Valley Community College (click here). The story sh...

Sheep's Milk Camembert by Sara Hunt - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Sheep's Milk Camembert by Sara Hunt

About Sara: Sara Hunt works for an artisan creamery in northern Utah. She also has her own hobby sheep dairy (Three Poi...

Leslie's Goat Cheese Spread - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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 ra...

Howard's Own "Small Cheese" Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Howard's Own "Small Cheese" Recipe

By Howard Dewsbury in Barrie Ontario, Canada I am a 68 year old father of 4 lovely children and have been happily marrie...

Bluma's Chevre Variations - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Bluma's Chevre Variations

Bluma’s beautiful enamel bowl was her mother’s. Bluma Bier of Springfield, MA is a registered nurse at an outpatient cli...

Brie Pie - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Brie Pie

Elizabeth Scheller from English, Indiana sent us this recipe for Brie Pie with either orange marmalade or apricot preserv...

Purchasing a Handmade Cheese Board - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Purchasing a Handmade Cheese Board

If you were inspired to make your own cheese boards in our last article – A Guide to DIY Cheese Boards – congratulations! ...

A Guide to DIY Cheese Boards - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

A Guide to DIY Cheese Boards

The obvious gift for cheese lovers is, you guessed it, cheese. But, this year, we thought you might want to really impres...

Goat Cheese Tart - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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 veggie...

Pork Steak with Cheese Sauce - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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...

6 Easy Chevre Appetizers - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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 g...

Dandelion Hill Farm in Sheffield, MA - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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...

Bob's Homemade Curd Cutter - Part 2 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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...

Stretching the Waistband of Your Food Budget - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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 t...

Tin Can Method for Smoking Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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 di...

Bob's Homemade Horizontal Curd Cutter - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Bob's Homemade Horizontal Curd Cutter

Bob Albers in Mandeville, Louisiana has been learning to make cheese since he retired from his career as an electronics en...

Terry Dinnan in Charlotte, Vermont - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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...

Maggie's Mac & Cheese Challenge - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

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-ca...

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