Two topics come together - Cheese and Rails
Today’s Yakima Herald-Republic has an article about cheese made in the Yakima area.
Although it’s not obvious, the Yakima Herald-Republic web site is one of the early Ruby on Rails sites, written by Ezra
Cheese and Rails – can’t go wrong with either.
WSU Cheese Making courses now open
WSU has two cheese making courses running early in 2006. The registration for these is now open.
The Farmstead/Artisan course is very similar to the one Lisa and I took at the University of Idaho in September.
Some notes on that course are here
How to make cheese - 2
Our two day adventure in making cheese is almost over, all we need to do now is drive home. We met some great people and learnt a great deal about how to make cheese for small scale production.
The hands on part was great, split into 8 groups, we made two different cheeses – feta and havarti. I was in a group making the feta and Lisa made the other. Being able to see what other people were doing differently, whilst following the same instructions was very informative. All of the cheeses turned out to be edible, but some were better than others. Our feta was a little over-salted (my fault), but tasted ok later on the second day.
Dave Potter taught us all about starters and cultures, this can be a very technical area, and it did seem that way for most people, but knowing the process that is going on will help us control it better. Dave also did a section on how to control the process, which things can be changed, what happens to other parts if you do change them.
The key thing with any question about making cheese is: It Depends! There are so many different ways of doing any one part of the process that you just have to do it yourself to learn it. Also, as we saw earlier, everyone follows instructions differently, so there is rarely a definititive answer.
I just noticed that the flyer for this course has four pictures of Leon of Llangloffan Farmhouse Cheese making his cheese on the front.
Coincidence? I don’t think so…
Two cheese reviews
Right in the middle of a blog about corporate stuff, there’s some posts about cheese.
Two Gems From Neal’s Yard Diary
Its also here: http://www.ninemoons.typepad.com/the_cheese_forum/2005/08/two_gems_from_n.html
How to make cheese
Lisa and I are heading to Idaho next week to participate in this cheese making course.
Cheese wedding cake?
An unusual use for cheese.
Favorite Cheese blogs
Here are the cheese related blogs that I read from time to time: