Homemade Mascarpone My newest obsession is making homemade cheese and mascarpone is on my cooking bucket list. {Especially since I want to use it for a cheesecake!} Mascarpone is milky-white in color and is easy to spread. It is used in various Lombardy dishes, and is considered a speciality in the region. It is one of the main ingredients in the ...
Cheese Recipes
Homemade Mozzarella Cheese
First I have to admit my first stab at homemade mozzarella cheese was a fail but I know why. I thought I was using milk that was not ultra pasteurized and upon further inspection I see that it was not. This could be the reason my cheese was grainy on the outside and didn't want to play well when I was working with it. Something else that might ...
Burrata Cheese
Burrata Cheese Have you guessed that I love food yet? It's easy to figure out since almost every food article starts with "I LOVE..." It's amazing I am not excessively overweight since I have a love for food. And, a lot of that food includes cheese. I will be trying my hand at making homemade cheeses so when I have my recipe perfected I will ...
Cheese Ball Recipe with Bacon & Peppers
The holidays are coming up and one my favorite items to make is a cheese ball. I have so many variations of cheese ball recipes I can never decide which to make. We have a ton of cream cheese stocked up from a killer sale that I hit where the cream cheese was on sale for $1.48 a block and I had $1/2 coupons! {If you hit a killer sale on cream ...