DP and I have been making cheese together for almost as long as we've known each other - which is only about 2 years. On about our 3rd date he invited me over to make lemon cheese according to the instructions of one of his mates, and we just keep adding to the repertoire since. We make caerphilly, havarti, and camembert (white and blue), as well as cream cheese, yoghurt and sour cream, ricotta, mozzarella and lemon cheese. I haven't bought yoghurt or cream cheese for a year or more now. Our family have come to expect a selection of home-made dairy at every get-together, and our friends would be disappointed if a camembert wasn't brought as a hostess gift at dinners.
It's fun, it's creative, and I get a huge mount of satisfaction watching the process that turns simple milk into any one of a dozen different flavoured and textured types of cheese. I do wish I had access to farm-direct raw milk, though.
Cheeselinks is a great site... we've bought from them several times.
Lolpigs, feel free to ask me if you have any questions - I can't guarantee that I can help, but I can try.
Umm I don't make cheese, but my husband eats the stuff by the bucketload (as well as ice cream and most things that are dairy). Let me know if you ever start selling it or giving it away! Also if you start making ice cream. :-)
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On about our 3rd date he invited me over to make lemon cheese according to the instructions of one of his mates, and we just keep adding to the repertoire since. We make caerphilly, havarti, and camembert (white and blue), as well as cream cheese, yoghurt and sour cream, ricotta, mozzarella and lemon cheese. I haven't bought yoghurt or cream cheese for a year or more now. Our family have come to expect a selection of home-made dairy at every get-together, and our friends would be disappointed if a camembert wasn't brought as a hostess gift at dinners.
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