Homemade Cheese

A few years ago, I decided to try my hand at making cheese. This is something that I really did just on a whim, because it sounded sort of interesting. What I found out then is that it’s a time-consuming process and the feedback is nowhere near instant. To make a good hard cheese you…

Sourdough Bread

My wife grew up in the San Francisco bay area, so she’s always had a thing for sourdough bread – especially the “extra-sour” varieties. Unfortunately here in rural Minnesota it’s hard to get anything resembling real bread at all, let alone a true sourdough. So about ten years ago, I started experimenting with sourdough. I…