We are making loads and loads of homemade raw goat milk cheese (chevre) around here. Because of this I have to find new and exciting ways to USE the goat cheese, hence today’s recipe. The bread comes out delightfully herby, cheesy, and moist. Super delicious. This bread keeps well in the refrigerator and goes fantastically well...

Wow, our ISP (to remain unnamed for the moment) REALLLLLY screwed us over, on galactic proportions. I feel shaky having come out the other end of this nightmare. My blogs are back and I am hoping our new ISP has more ethics than the last. Today I am going to show you how to make an...

Goat Cheese by Maggie Foard (published by Gibbs Smith in July 1, 2008) is a delightful cookbook that explores a range of ways for using goats milk cheeses. You may remember that we have our own herd of 18 LaMancha dairy goats and that we milk 7 does on a daily basis (we are up to...

I have been working with our new dehydrator to create several types of crackers and fruit leathers. The goal is to understand what the drying process does to various foods and to test some of the recipes one finds on the web. Everything I will ever make will be 100% nut free. We have a zero tolerance...

(This was cross-posted to Humble Garden) (Homemade chevre cheese) We are enjoying our independence from the food chain. We get our eggs and our milk (and now cheese) from our backyard. We eat our salads from our backyard. If you don’t now, what are you waiting for?! If you think food prices are high now,...

At the risk of being somewhat repetitive, I am going to talk about another potato recipe today. As you may know, we have been growing all our own vegetables this year. I have been writing about it over at my garden blog Humble Garden. I have learned a whole lot about organic gardening (mostly its...

I apologize for not posting much this last week. Its been rather hectic! To broaden my photographic learning experience, I am the second shooter in a few weddings this summer with this fantastic guy Rob Brown, his site is Rob Brown Photography in case you need the friendliest wedding photographer in New England. I...

(Apple Dumpling with vanilla ice cream and cheddar cheese) Here in central Massachusetts, we have an abundance of apple orchards. When tourists come to this region in the summer, they expect to do a few very specific things – buy antiques, pick apples, visit 18th century New England at Old Sturbridge Village, and enjoy a rural...

(Image Source: Vermont Butter & Cheese Co. promotional materials. All the remaining photos are mine.) This is the second installment of the iTasting series. You can find the first one here – iTasting: Elevages Perigord – Duck Foie Gras. There were several cheese producers at the Dole & Bailey Northeast Family Farms Road Show, and I...

  (This post will appear on the Paper Palate blog, a member of the Well Fed Network)   Book review of Camilla V. Saulsbury’s Panna Cotta: Italy’s Elegant Custard Made Easy I had never heard of panna cotta before I saw it made on Iron Chef a few years ago. I obviously do not frequent many Italian restaurants,...