Food stuff
Yesterday the boy toy and I made cheese. We used a recipe for something called cagliata fresca from this cookbook. However, it bore much resemblance to online recipes for making ricotta at home. Whatever.
We didn't have a thermometer handy (yeah, I need to get one), so we had to watch for clues that the milk was hot but not boiling. At first the boy toy added lemon juice from the bottle he keeps handy, but we got hardly any curds. So I suggested using real lemon juiced, and he squeezed a lemon (or more, I wasn't watching) into the whey that was left and reheated it, and it curdled up just fine. On whole wheat toast, it tasted great, with a hint of lemon.
Now, of course, I so want to make more cheese. Mmm-hmm. Right before Pennsic, this is dangerous. :-)
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We didn't have a thermometer handy (yeah, I need to get one), so we had to watch for clues that the milk was hot but not boiling. At first the boy toy added lemon juice from the bottle he keeps handy, but we got hardly any curds. So I suggested using real lemon juiced, and he squeezed a lemon (or more, I wasn't watching) into the whey that was left and reheated it, and it curdled up just fine. On whole wheat toast, it tasted great, with a hint of lemon.
Now, of course, I so want to make more cheese. Mmm-hmm. Right before Pennsic, this is dangerous. :-)
This entry was originally posted at http://luscious-purple.dreamwidth.org/158096.html. Please feel free to comment either here or there.