Thursday, February 28, 2013

First Cream Cheese

As the new year rolls one of my goals is to try some different things in cheesemaking.  This is my first creamcheese.  Yeah, it doesn't look very creamy.  I realized that I hadn't read the recipe very well when I was already launched into it.  The dark stuff is dried cherries - this had a little sugar added and even though it turned out lumpy, it was really tasty.  This was a small part of the whole recipe.  I pulled 1/3 out and made this, then lightly salted the other 2/3, divided it in half and added herbs to one half.  So I had 1/3 plain, 1/3 sweet with cherries and 1/3 herbed.   Lumpy but yummy!
I've also made a Montasio, which is kinda like a parmesian.  It will age for quite some time before we can taste it.

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