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Summary of My FList Today:
OMG! NS Hall! WTF?
*facepalm*
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Car Troubles:
Well, this seems to be the week for Car Troubles. On Monday, MIL and I went to la Target Boutique to find a high chair for Miss Em and her fabulous new teeth. We purchased a booster seat and some cute (black) Halloween themed clothes for her, and were going to load everything into the car when my key shattered... So we were in the parking lot with ( Read more... ) -
How the hell did I get here?
I'm writing this out for Doug's benefit, because he thinks these far-fetched bullshit situations only happen to him.
So there I was, planning on making a habanero cheddar for eithni, because I've been promising to make her one ever since she let me try that "unreasonably hot cheese" that a very nice Laurel in the Midrealm sent to her. I am aware that ( Read more... ) -
AS-50: 9/5/10 Ginger and white pepper farmhouse cheddar
Ok. I'm sure you've seen me say over and over again that "cheddar isn't period."
What I should probably be saying instead is that "cheddar as we know it isn't period." They were making cheese in the village of Cheddar as early as 1170 when pipe rolls show that King Henry II purchased 10,420 lbs of Cheddar at a farthing per pound (£3 per ton) for ( Read more... ) -
AS-50: 9/4/10 Gouda #11 (liquid smoke and Kadova mold)
Standard Gouda make with lipase and flora danica, this time with 1/8 tsp liquid smoke in a 1 gallon batch. I pressed it under about 70 lbs and the texture seems much more "gouda-esque" than what I'd been getting previously. (My previous cheeses following the gouda recipe from Cheeseforum.org were ending up with poorly knit paste that seemed kind of ( Read more... ) -
A Weekend of Cheese
I made 11 lbs of cheese this weekend. More on this later, but for now, I leave you with these:
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Cheesy Bible References:
1 Samuel 17:17-19 (King James Version) 17 And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp of thy brethren ( Read more... ) -
Faily, fail, fail, fail:
I found some interesting commentary and redactions of the following recipe translation, but based on the research I've done, I'm not sure I'd have done my redaction in the same way. Thus I'm attempting to redact this recipe myself. First off, here is the piece I'm looking at:
16th Century Italian Cheese Recipes ( Read more... ) -
Tidbits:
- Fig tree latex, used as a vegetarian/kosher rennet, contains both chymosins (rennet) and lipase. 1 ml will coagulate 1L of milk.
- Thistle rennet is used for coagulating sheep milk and goat milk, but NOT cow milk. It does something hideous to the proteins and releases "undesirable" flavors. The purple parts of the flowers are the part that contain the ( Read more... )
