Saturday, June 12, 2010

made Ghee today

In the morning I made cheese, I know I know another bergkaese *LOL* but we like it and it's fast to make,
had to vaccuum seal some cheese that are ready :) drove daughter to dance, but had to pick her up earlier bacuse it was "BORING" hahaha how can a dance be boring??

anyways finished the Ghee almost, tomorrow I will fill it in little glass containers.
I'm just to tired to do anything right now,

Batch #16 200 liters
total so far 3200 liters of milk

did not take any pictures!!

Thursday, June 10, 2010

cheese morning *LOL*

Finnaly I made another cheese this morning, I made a new brine the day before my batch #14 and that Brine was a disaster, the PH was not balanced and I had problems with my babyswiss getting a firm rind...
anyways it seems OK now, so I made Bergkaese :) but I did bring home some whey just in case the Brine acts up on me.

yesterday I went to cadets with my daughter, she made it :)  she got PE&RT (Physical Education and Recreation Training)  in CSTC Blackdown, she is leaving July 3th and will be back August 14th, will miss her but will go and visit if everything goes as planned :)

also today I should receive my daughter's new laptop, her's is on the verge to crash, she wants a Mac but I can't afford that just yet, I guess that will keep me busy a little wile till everything is installed from the old one to the new one.

OK Laptop arrived, I'm working on the recovery disks, downloading some stuff for it.
it's a HUGE Box, I would say more box then something else *LOL*

look at that a box in a box *LOL*



I'm almost done with the recovery discs and still downloading stuff.


I went to the house to get the BabySwiss to move back to the cave :)
they sure look good :)

and eaven the one that busted is not to bad looking *giggle*


I moved BabySwiss cheese from the warm place to the cave, now it has to be there a few weeks and then we know if it's good *LOL*


here they are :)



in about 1 Hr. I will get the cheese from the press and bring them to the cave to Brine.

Batch #15 200 liters
total so far 3000 liters of milk

Monday, June 7, 2010

it's time for a post

I think it's time for a post, I have been so busy that I almost forgot to post,
on Friday night I made about 42 liters of cream, since I knew I could not make some on the weekend.

Saturday was the cadet annual and we had fun watching the cadets
here a few videos
my daughter is platoon comander



the PT was so funny *LOL*
my daughter is the one that is smiling all the time :)



after the annual we went for something to eat and my husband was acting silly *LOL* but this video is so funny, look when he realized I was filming, hahaha his expression changed *giggle*


on Sunday was not much going on, I had some problems with my cheese Brine, so I did not plan on making cheese Today, but we did churn butter from the cream I did on Friday night
this afternoon, then tonight my sister-in-law and me packed the butter and I also did another 28 liters of cream.
I was driained when I got home,
I usualy bring home skim milk for the chickens, I dump 3 pail of skim milk in to a big drum and add rennet, leave it for a few days and then give the cheese to the chickens.
but tonight I took a 200 liter drum and brought it to the main farm where I do the cheese or cream, anyways I put in aprx 200 liters of skim milk and added rennet, in a few days I will get it for the birds :)
so I did not waste anything :) usualy I dump 100 plus liters in to the gutter, but not today. :)

I'm not sure what UI will do tomorrow morning, I would like to sleep *LOL* but I should do cheese...

I will try something with the cream tomorrow afternoon, will post results later.


Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Busy Day it was/is *LOL*

The day started with cheesemaking, another batch of BabySwiss :) really hope that all these batches turn out good, this is #3 of BabySwiss cheese, again I used AromaB culture, the one that made big cheese in Babyswiss batch3 explode *LOL*

I did so many things today I have to remember, last night I bought some mushrooms champignion, they where in the reduced bin for 50% off, they did not look perfect, but for drying they where just right.


I used my NESCO Professional Food & Jerky Dehydrator, I love this small gadget :)
I have made jerky and also dryed many things with this and I give it thumbs up :)

Shopping in the US

I bought mine at Costco.ca but they don't have it anymore, they have the square one, I'm not familiar with that one, so I won't put a link.
the extra trays I bought at Home hardware they had to order them for me, but I love Home Hardware they sell so many things eaven coffee pods *LOL* I'm serious *LOL*



just after a few Hr. the mushroom lookd like that :)


then my sister in law made some Ice cream for the family, we got Strawberry and Rum/raisins yuck I don't like raisins *LOL* but Hubby does I think *LOL*


My cream cheese and Quark seems to look good :)
here a picture before draining

and this one today after draining :)
the dollar store bags are amazing :)

the one in the back is the Quark! front is cream cheese :)

and here a picture of the cream cheese in the bowl before filling the tubs for the family to share

and the Quark :)


the butter is churned and packed to, did not take pictures of it, forgot my camera.

I still have to do my chores ( feeding my sheep's, Llama's, goats and chickens and get the cheese out of the press and in to the Brine, and then I have to drive 30 min. to pick up daughter from cadets. oh supper has to be made to, OMG I'm so pooped today *LOL*



Batch #14 200 liters
total so far 2800 liters of milk

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

another day

Ha!! the Dollar store Laundry bags work perfectly as a draining bag :)
yesterday morning I made cream about 24 liters of it :)
4 liters went to sister-in-law she will make ice cream yumm yumm **drool**  2 liters went to other sister-in-law not sure what she will do :) 6 liters went to me for cream cheese making and 12 liters are for butter.

today I used the cheap Laundry bags I posted about them on a  Friday anyways they are working great.




the one in the back is Quark and the front one is cream cheese


tomorrow morning I will make some BabySwiss again, and use AromaB again, hopefully this one won't explode *LOL*
the other one that exploded on saturday is vaccuum-sealed and back in the warmer room for more heat *LOL*

had not much time to do more things today, salami has to wait a few days more, I have to drive my daughter around so much lately, today she had to go and get her kilt for cadets, tomorrow is cadets and again on Friday! But they have to practise for the big day on Saturday it's the Annual Ceremonial Review, another year has passed...

Oh I almost forgot, each time I make cream I bring home many buckets of skim milk, but I only have a few chickens and they can't drink all the milk, so I fill a huge bucket and ad some older rennet I have, and the next day I have a funny looking cheese *LOL* the chicken love it and I get to use all the mil without having it spoil :)

pretty soon the eggs will taste like cheese jk jk jk ( just kidding )

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