So let's Talk about food??? The food we buy at the local retail store.  Have you ever read the labels... Have you ever wondered what half the ingredients are??? I do not have a complete list but what I do know is so many of them rob your body of nutrients, block absorption of minerals, have potential to attack you immune system and cause cancer... Hmmm that made me think... I want to try something better so I did I started to cook real foods... Yes many of my foods do still come from the store.. I live in a city.. so I have a limit to what I can and can't produce for myself.. But I do look for better quality, unprocessed food and I cook. I prepare meals for the week and I prep my lunches... This keeps me eating better than a hot deli meals or fast food.

One of my favorite things to make is Cheese.. I love to make cheese.. and it is easy!!!

Go to the store and buy

1 gallon whole milk not (ultra pasteurized) it can be ultrafiltered  I have been using Fair life

Or if you know a farmer you can do raw milk or goats milk...

2/3 cup Lemon Juice, 100% pure lemon Juice or enough lemons to squeeze (about 8)
2 tsp salt

optional
Herbs or spices or both.

Poor milk in stainless steel pan and heat slowly over med heat stirring constantly until it reaches 185 degrees 

Add lemon juice stir on heat 1 minute then remove from heat and let rest for 15 minutes

This is when the curds form and separate from the whey (yellow liquid) 

Line a colander with a cheesecloth or very fine cotton towel, I use flour sack towels. Strain the curds from the whey. I discard this whey due to it being heated to a high temp there is no health value in this liquid at this point.   I then let the curds rest a bout 5 min or so till I can squeeze out any additional whey.. The curds will be hot so be careful, once the curd cool a bit I pull all the corners of the towel together and wring out as much whey as possible. Once the curds look dry... Sprinkle with 2 teaspoons salt and add what ever spice you want.

ring curds tightly in towel place on a bowl in a bowl twist towel to make knot push into center of cheese and place a weight or bowl with rice on top to help farce out any additional whey.. place in fridge for two days to rest.

and Wola!! I made green onion cheese.. it was amazing

You can add what ever spices you want play with the recipe.. I love this cheese. I have even left it in curd added only salt and not pressed and ate like feta on my salads.

I hope you try this recipe I find it fun to make delicious to eat and healthy for you!

Enjoy!!!

Oh My Goodness!!

 I have been on such a new path... Crafting has taken a backseat to cooking, fermenting and gardening. it all started with Chickens in the back yard....Tasty on FB and then ran into Youtube and beyond.
 

My Ladies... 

 

I am now looking at cooking in a whole new light...  Healthy home cooked meals... If I have learned one thing working in Big Box these last 9 years the food be have been eating is going to kill us all. I was tired, run down my body hurt and my memory was so bad I thought I had the onset of dementia at 54.... 

 

I started with a low Carb high fat diet that help cleanse out the sugar and toxins from the boxed foods.. I felt amazing...  I was shocked how eating home cooked food made me feel good again... I also added Quo-Co 10 to my diet and it helped with my brain..lol.



So in the almost year I did the diet I learned a lot about what your body needs to process not only the food but the mineral in the food.. I then started looking at the Paleo Diet and I found a whole new world of good foods.. and none of them come from a box.

Yum and good for you.

And this too!! 

I am not even close to the target weight I wanted to get to on my diet... and not because of the diet, but because I love food. So this is where my search for clean eating started... I need more than bacon, eggs and cauliflower to survive...  So I have been everywhere and learned as much as I can about food from dependable teachers and thier web sites and youtube channels. I have to say thank you to Wardee from Traditional Cooking School , Stacy from  Off Grid with Doug and Stacy and so many more.

I learned how to make bread that does not make you feel bloated after you eat and Cheese that has only two natural ingredients.. 

Sour Dough Bread

whole milk cheese with no fillers or preservatives. 

I am going to share my adventures as I learn and maybe someday this info will help eat better.. So check back I will be posting recipes on tuesday to all I have shared and more. Bon Appetite.