MMMMM…take a bite of homemade cottage cheese, and you’ll think you’re eating a cloud. It’s light. It’s fluffy. It’s the kind of thing I like to fold into pancake batter for breakfast, or to serve with blueberries for dessert. You won’t believe how easy it is to make this ambrosia, or how self-reliant you’ll feel… Read more »

IF YOU ONLY KNOW BLAND, STORE-BOUGHT CREAM CHEESE (which, by the way, is artificially thickened with guar gum, locust bean bum, and modified food starch), get ready for a treat. The homemade version, which I made several times this week, is rich, tangy, and utterly pure. Even an 8-year-old child can make it. Yes…it’s that… Read more »

LAST WEEK, as you might recall, I had great fun making mozzarella in only 30 minutes. Well, today I made my first batch of delicious, creamy ricotta. Ricotta is particularly easy to make because it requires only two ingredients — a gallon of whole milk and a teaspoon of citric acid. Here’s the fun process:… Read more »

WHAT'S MORE FUN THAN A BARREL OF MONKEYS? Making your own mozzarella cheese. I made the shiny, perfectly-textured, unbelievably delicious loaf pictured up top in only 30 minutes yesterday. Of course the cost is only a tiny fraction of what you'd pay for store-bought cheese. The ingredients are as simple as the recipe: Read more »