Making Cheese

Rich has started making cheese. He bought a book and supplies a few weeks back and has started making the easy stuff first.  The book recommended making cottage cheese first so he did.  It is really easy and fun.  He used a little bit of our sour dough starter in it.  So it is fresh and yummy and healthy with the great cultures in it.

 

 Next he made Mozzarella cheese.  Again this only took about an hour and it turned out delicious too.

He grated it and we used on a homemade pizza.

I made the sourdough crust.

Rich made the sauce with our home grown tomatoes.

It turned out hot and bubbly.  So fresh and so good for you!

Here is something Rich wrote about my homemade sourdough bread:

 My wife makes the most wonderful sourdough bread, and goodies.
Almost all bakers now days make breads with refined commercial yeast that only has one type of yeast in it, but it was not too long... ago that all breads were made with natural occurring sourdough culture that contains over twenty lactic acid bacteria, and several strains of yeast that are all beneficial to digestion, and intestinal health, and some of the beneficial bacteria even attack the harmful ones so that they become little "good guys" in our system to fight off the bad guys. This wonderful mixture of different yeasts , and bacteria create a symbiotic relationship that not only gives a unique flavor to breads, they actually process the more complex materials in the dough such as gluten, and make it safer for our bodies to process. Commercial refined yeast that they use now causes the breads to rise very quickly, and do not process the harmful materials, they are designed to get the breads out on store shelves as fast as they can to be sold. It is no wonder that our Lord likened the Kingdom of God to a woman that put some yeast in some dough until it had completed its purpose. I like how John Wycliff said it in the 1382 translation of the bible into Middle English:
 

Matthew 13:33
"An other parable Jhesus spac to hem. The Kyngdom of hevenes is like soure dowz, the which taken, a womman hidde in three mesuris of meel, til it were all sowrdowid".