Category: Cheese

Blueee

There is a cheese I really like the look of – Shropshire Blue – The combination of the annatto orange cheese with the blue veins is quite stunning and
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Smoked Cheese #1

Of course. This is such an obvious combination I have no idea why I didn’t try it earlier… anyway… As you have guessed by the title today I
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Cheshire Cheese #3

Denise has made some lovely “Cheshire Cat” stickers for the cheshire cheese. (The model for the painting was ‘Trampy” a semi domesticated feline visitor who can’t decide if
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Cheshire Cheese #2

Following on from Cheshire Cheese #1. The cheese has progressed nicely. it has been pressed for two days then allowed to dry. Now it’s time to wax it.  
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Pepato

I was recently reading a “the Little Green Cheesemakers” post in which they had opened up a Pepato cheese after aging it for 17 months. This was pretty relevant to
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Blue Vein #2

The Blue Vein cheese is now 1/4 of the way through its ageing (11 days to be precise). It’s developed a nice blue fuzz all over it’s surface.
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Blue Vein #1

Todays cheese is a blue cheese, one of my favourites… Ingredients 10l of non-homogenised fresh milk 0.488g of Flora Danica starter 2 skewer tips (1 drop) of blue
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Caerphilly

I’m very excited today as I’ll be making a cheese for the first time in ages with the new milk I can get now. I’ve chosen to make
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