Sustainable Eats

Left my cheese aging after only 10 days, Right Mt. Townsend Seastack
When Annette and I started talking about cheesemaking, it didn’t take much time for us to share the woe that many, if not all, cheesemakers experience: cheese failures. For those who have made cheese before, you probably know what I mean.
That gouda that smelled [...]

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My family eats a lot of pressed cheeses – cheddar being their favorite, a washed rind tomme is mine. And while we can get Beecher’s cheddar (local but still somewhat dairy pool, not organic but they don’t use growth hormones, etc) I’ve tried several times to make tomme, monterey jack and cheddar.
In [...]

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I’ve so enjoyed reading everyone’s Tigress Can Jam citrus posts this week that I almost forgot to write my post about it!
Citrus from the store is not local in the Pacific NW but there are some citrus you can grow at home. Unfortunately only one can overwinter in your garden and I just planted [...]

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Our chickens have started laying and they are going rock steady.  I had pre-ordered eggs from Dry Creek farm and my dear friend Charlotte brings them with the milk each week so suddenly we have a fridge full of eggs!  And that is never a bad thing in this house.
Because my preschooler goes on pancake [...]

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Who doesn’t love a snickerdoodle? Or ice cream? Together they are other-worldly, especially on summer’s fruit crips and cobblers.
We try to limit our intake of sweets but I’ve got two young kids with sweet teeth so I try to beef up any desserts or treats we have. This ice cream [...]

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Last week I made a tomme cheese from cow’s milk.  It will be a few months before I know for sure how it turned out but the curds were tasty and they knit together perfectly (unlike my monterey jack flop.) 

To make it I heated 2 gallons raw cow milk from Dungeness Creamery to 88 degrees [...]

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Last Saturday I set about making mozzarella again. It makes me really mad when I can’t get something to work (or I misplace something and can’t locate it.) I will spend all my energy figuring it out. I knew the last time I made mozzarella that I let the milk get too hot which makes [...]

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Since buying this Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker
we’ve been on an ice cream bender lately. After all those years of trying to get toddler’s weight up (with both of my kids) I’m kicking myself for not thinking of this one sooner. Organic milk and cream, maple syrup, egg yolks – it’s the stuff I [...]

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If you are a caramel fan have I got a treat for you! A few week’s back I made cajeta from my goat’s milk from St. John’s Creamery. It took longer then I expected but the resulting sauce was amazing.
Cajeta is the goat’s milk version of dulce de leche and it’s made [...]

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Once we decided we would only eat food if we could trace all ingredient sources I found a raw cow and goat milk dairy. We had a source for milk but what about kefir, yogurt, butter, sour cream and cheese? These were things we ate a LOT of.
Last summer I had bought the [...]

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