Making a simple ricotta or cream cheese is easier than you think. You may even have the equipment and ingredients you need already kicking around your kitchen. To make cheese at home, locate the following:
1. Whole milk – 1 qt fresh, local
2. Buttermilk – 1 c. active-culture
3. Lemon Juice – 2 tsp or white vinegar will do
4. Salt – 3/4 tsp
5. Heavy bottom saucepan
6. Stock Pot
7. Colander
8. Meat Thermometer
9. Cheesecloth
For a simple home cheese making recipe, follow along with Chef John from Foodwishes.com in this informative and entertaining video. Who knew cheesecloth was the fishnet stocking of kitchen equipment? Really.
Collaboration with multiple partners paid rewarding dividends at this year’s Economic Development Association of Canada’s (EDAC) annual awards ceremony.
Over 180 submissions were made and organizers indicated that this year’s national submissions were some of the best ever and highly competitive.
The Invest in Cheese website won the medal for using Digital Media in a niche microsite (in the category of organizations with an annual budget of less than $200,000).
The Award recognizes the website’s use of the latest trends in social media and the way it serves as an online clearinghouse of information and dialogue for the Invest in Cheese project.
EDAC is an independent, non-profit organization whose members are engaged in economic development across Canada. Here’s the 2010 EDAC award winners.
Congratulations to our partners in Frontenac, Hastings, Lennox and Addington and Prince Edward Counties and to all those who made the website award-winning! Scout Design, Revue Design, Jacob Kennedy, Kathy Wood, a myriad of Cheese-makers and I hope we haven’t missed anyone.
Contributed by Galen Newman – Invest in Cheese team
The Results are In
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