Ever since I read up on the huge amount of unnecessary chemicals that are being pumped into our food only to make finished products look better and last for next to eternity, I have taken a liking to making things from scratch.
Home-made goat cheese
There is something so very refreshing about food that spoils according to a natural lifespan; and I love how I don’t have to mix natural flavors, which are deep and variable, with the taste of chemical additives – which are plain and dominant.
We recently started making our own goat cheese, using the milk from our black doe Allis, whose milk is sweet and creamy. It’s amazing how milk can vary from one individual to another, which says something about the huge variety of tastes available to us, if we only take the time to enjoy.
I started out making goat yogurt (heating up the goat milk to “finger temperature” and mixing it with a few table spoons of yogurt, before leaving it in a cupboard over night),
…which I then let slip through a cloth for an afternoon to reduce the amount of liquid.
The end result was a creamy, crystal-white (!) soft-spread cheese, which I mixed with chopped garlic, onions, fresh basil and salt.
Served with fresh tomatoes and a sprinkle of black pepper, we have discovered that our home-made goat cheese doesn’t last long in our home – and it’s not for lack of chemical additives!
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This has given me a craving for goat’s cheese. I’m quite envious.
That looks good. Home made foods are always better. Unfortunately, in “modern” countries, we’re forced to be so busy trying to survive, that we don’t have time (or energy) to cook well and ENJOY healthy food. We gobble down bad food with minimal pleasure so we can get back to work. You’re fortunate to live in a civilized land where money is not god.
I’ll be right over! (I wish….)
That looks completely awesome! But I would have thought it would take longer than a night and a day to make the cheese.
I can see why it doesn’t last long!
yum yum yum!
That goat yogurt looks delishous. And it doesn’t seem to have taken you too long. Yummmm.
OH YUM for sure!
Sounds delicious. I am very fond of goat cheese. YUM! So I am jealous you can make it yourself!
How very interesting! And what a great way to avoid so many of the chemicals! Love your photos as always and it does look yummy!!!!
Enjoy your week, Esther!
Sylvia
The finished product does look delicious! Well done!
wow. so healthy and delicious. thanks for sharing.
I am extremely impressed! It looks and sounds delicious!
Oh!..nice and I feel hungry now!.
Looks very yummy! I never liked goat cheese, but now have acquired a taste for it. The Mennonites here make a fresh soft goat cheese which is additive free, but it is very pricey at the market.
Wow – that looks really good. On the search now for some fresh goat cheese.
Really yummy looking goats cheese, Esther. I love foods that don’t last that way I know they’re natural.
I like soft cheese, I wish I was able to make some lovely goats cheese, it sounds like it is really only yoghurt with the liquid allowed to drip out. I would love to try it. Sadly I don’t have a goat or a cow for that matter to get the raw product.
That looks really yummy!
Looks delicious. I drank a lot of goat milk as a child (freshly milked). But now as a grown up would have to pay a lot of money to buy a litre from the supermarket. So I haven’t had any goat’s milk for a very long time
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