Thankyou Travelin' Pat for sharing the fun day you and Daiya had at Poplar Grove Cheesery.
What does one
normally do on a gorgeous Easter Weekend?
Lets see…go bike riding? Walking? Paint adorable creative eggs? OR go
to a cheese making class. Cheese
Please!!!
My Daughter in
Law Daiya and I had registered for the class ages ago and finally the big
cheese day arrived. We donned on our
gumboots and our aprons and our ever so fashionable hairnets and boldly went
where neither of us had been before.
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| Poplar Grove Cheese Shop |
The first thing
we learned is that cleanliness is paramount.
Lots of hand washing and rinsing of utensils. Secondly we learned that
with a few simple ingredients (milk, citric acid and rennet) we could be off to
the races.
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| Daiya Anderson - The start |
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| Warming up milk and acids |
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| Cheese forming into a ball |
The down and
dirty is that you pour milk into a pot, heat it up add your acid and rennet and
Bobs your uncle. Ok maybe it is a bit
more of a deal than that but essentially it is a simple process. At the end of the day we had three delicious
cheeses, ricotta, mozzarella and feta. Plus we were very proud of ourselves. I
am already thinking tomato and mozzarella salad for dinner tonight.
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| Hanging cheese to let whey drip |
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| Finished product |
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| Feta |
Maybe the next
time you would like to do something fun and worthwhile, grab a friend and take
a stab at making cheese.
Louise Pederson
(the big cheese around the place) is the instructor extraordinaire. She is an excellent and patient teacher; and
the class is informative and fun. Louise plans on starting up more cheese making classes in the Fall. For more information visit the Poplar Grove Cheese website, or call
(250) 492-4575. A big bonus is that there is a scrumptious lunch (with wine) provided. Cheers....
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| Wine with lunch |
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