Venecia (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} thesecondcircle) wrote,@ 2009-06-01 11:12:00 |
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Cheesy Update
Had several comments / questions re. my cheesemaking adventures. Basically, I was just starting to play with it, using rennet from the grocery store to make soft cheese. I tried for cottage cheese several times and once ended up with a soft cheese very like Boursin. Tasty! I finally gave up on being able to replicate store-bought cottage cheese (which is much cheaper anyway) but I may make try to replicate the Boursin error again. I haven't made hard cheese yet, but when I do it will probably be basic hard farmer cheese and not a gourmet cheese with special cultures. Cheese-making is fun, but there's only so serious I want to get about it.
In other news, this weekend was kind of odd as the Ham had two sleepovers in a row. Friday night she spent the night with Auntie M and Saturday with her friend L. In between she was home for a few hours, but that's it. She didn't get home again until Sunday afternoon. She had great fun at both, but I have to admit I started missing her on Sunday. She came home sunburnt, grimy, and exhausted and crashed out on the couch until bedtime.
Fortunately the burn isn't too bad. It doesn't look like it's going to peel. I guess we need to be more conscientious (Ham's coloring means she rarely burns and we rarely worry about sunscreen unless she's outside for a number of hours). I rarely burn either. But she was at the pool most of Saturday afternoon and Sunday.
Still, it was an odd weekend with her being away so much. Nice at first (sleeping in, eating curry!) but then it got hard as we both began to miss her.
For dinner last night HPI* kitchen did meat and cheese wraps with lettuce, tomato, onion, and sliced cantaloupe and finished with an orange / cantaloupe sorbet (with OJ, and a wee splash of Grand Marnier). I'm on a homemade ice cream kick and got some great books from the library. We'll see how the sorbet holds up (homemade ice cream tends to deteriorate fast).
* House of Perpetual Indulgence -- we ended up with that nickname after our friend M came to stay with us for a while.
Had several comments / questions re. my cheesemaking adventures. Basically, I was just starting to play with it, using rennet from the grocery store to make soft cheese. I tried for cottage cheese several times and once ended up with a soft cheese very like Boursin. Tasty! I finally gave up on being able to replicate store-bought cottage cheese (which is much cheaper anyway) but I may make try to replicate the Boursin error again. I haven't made hard cheese yet, but when I do it will probably be basic hard farmer cheese and not a gourmet cheese with special cultures. Cheese-making is fun, but there's only so serious I want to get about it.
In other news, this weekend was kind of odd as the Ham had two sleepovers in a row. Friday night she spent the night with Auntie M and Saturday with her friend L. In between she was home for a few hours, but that's it. She didn't get home again until Sunday afternoon. She had great fun at both, but I have to admit I started missing her on Sunday. She came home sunburnt, grimy, and exhausted and crashed out on the couch until bedtime.
Fortunately the burn isn't too bad. It doesn't look like it's going to peel. I guess we need to be more conscientious (Ham's coloring means she rarely burns and we rarely worry about sunscreen unless she's outside for a number of hours). I rarely burn either. But she was at the pool most of Saturday afternoon and Sunday.
Still, it was an odd weekend with her being away so much. Nice at first (sleeping in, eating curry!) but then it got hard as we both began to miss her.
For dinner last night HPI* kitchen did meat and cheese wraps with lettuce, tomato, onion, and sliced cantaloupe and finished with an orange / cantaloupe sorbet (with OJ, and a wee splash of Grand Marnier). I'm on a homemade ice cream kick and got some great books from the library. We'll see how the sorbet holds up (homemade ice cream tends to deteriorate fast).
* House of Perpetual Indulgence -- we ended up with that nickname after our friend M came to stay with us for a while.
