Cheese part II

 So we made cheese yesterday. went for cheve, a simple goats cheese. 

let it drain. 

never really made cheese before....

most of what we got was a really a mild and great mozzarella goat cheese.

we have a lot of great cheese making equipment here, a cheese press, molds, everything but a bunch of starters- got to get some of them enzymes! we are all about the good bacteria! after all, its mostly because of those millions of little guys that give us all our favorite foods... wine, beer, yogurt, cheese, kimche, sauerkraut... even the plants like good holistic bacteria to help fight all the nasty blights and bad fungus... more on the compost and lactose loving teas for plants later...

i decided to press the curds into wheels, and then salted them and added tarragon and thyme (dried).

added some more salt, and now flipping the wheels on the cheese tray to dry out and see what we get... adding salt as i need to dry them out.

the pink on the larger thin wheel is some Hawaiian red sea salt from dear friend Cat. 

oh yeah-what am i going for here?

 hopefully a kind of aged dried, herbed, goat mozzarella, cottage cheddar?? 

or something like that..

stay tuned....

Cheese?!

Last night, for the first time we made cheese. 3 gallons of goats milk.... and we still had maybe 3 gallons to use for yogurt and to have in the morning... without any enzyme starter, i just used Rennet, to separate the fats and whey. on the left is the cheese hanging to drain and cure, and the right is the whey and cheese- the cheese having formed into a semi solid. below is the cheese in the cloth ready to be wrapped up and hung. to follow will be salting, pressing to cure, and adding dried herbs to make a herb goat cheese cheve... thank you GOATS.

also started today was some kimche, and Komboocha, (or booch as we like to call it)  by the wonderful and recently arrived new farm pirate (that's our new slang for intern) Meghan. also will attempt some whey soda with all our strawberries, and dehydrate them as well. lots going on. lots to do. lots to post... 

patients... 
and a quote that has been floating around here

"the universe is not personal"