What's for Dinner?

[BigDaveK]

Damnit Dave. Stop with all these cheese postings… I don’t have time for another hobby!

Consider this - one gallon of milk produces roughly 1 lb of cheese. And look at the numbers - the cost of a gallon of milk and the cost of a pound of good cheese. I'm happy!

I see your point. Sorry. I'll try to control myself. I'll also have to get after @vinny to post more of his cheese.

 

[ChuckD]

Consider this - one gallon of milk produces roughly 1 lb of cheese. And look at the numbers - the cost of a gallon of milk and the cost of a pound of good cheese. I'm happy!

I see your point. Sorry. I'll try to control myself. I'll also have to get after @vinny to post more of his cheese.

I love cheese. When I retire it’s one of the things I wanted to try making. Your posts have pushed it up the list.

 

[winemaker81]

I love cheese. When I retire it’s one of the things I wanted to try making. Your posts have pushed it up the list.

Why wait?

 

[ChuckD]

Why wait?

Damn day job!

 

[BigDaveK]

Sorry @ChuckD, I hate to tempt you. (No, not really! )

Cut into my first Caraway Havarti today and it turned out incredibly well! Absolutely delicious! 2.1 pounds for less than 7 bucks.

 

[bstnh1]

 

[bstnh1]

Consider this - one gallon of milk produces roughly 1 lb of cheese. And look at the numbers - the cost of a gallon of milk and the cost of a pound of good cheese. I'm happy!

I see your point. Sorry. I'll try to control myself. I'll also have to get after @vinny to post more of his cheese.

Do you use raw milk or pasteurized?

 

[winemaker81]

Mrs. WM81 got ribeyes out of the freezer. Haven't had these in a while. I love ribeye steaks, but the amount of fat is high. Still a large portion.

 

[bstnh1]

If you wrap it in bacon .......

 

[winemaker81]

If you wrap it in bacon .......

transforms good to great!

 

[BigDaveK]

Do you use raw milk or pasteurized?

Pasteurized. I don't have cows or goats or sheep. Raw milk not easy to come by in this part of Ohio. The closest "herd share" where you buy into a farm is about 2 hours away. I'd love to try raw milk. Maybe some day, still looking.

 

[bstnh1]

Pasteurized. I don't have cows or goats or sheep. Raw milk not easy to come by in this part of Ohio. The closest "herd share" where you buy into a farm is about 2 hours away. I'd love to try raw milk. Maybe some day, still looking.

I just might give cheese making a try this year.

 

[Rice_Guy]

Do you use raw milk or pasteurized?

Due to current FDA rules most cheese in the US is made with pasteurized milk. (we can change that rule with aged cheese) The rules also prevent us / industry from using cheese caves with the proper mold growing on the walls so we have to buy cultures from IFF.

Yeast pasteurized works.

 

[BarrelMonkey]

5-hour beef shank sugo with cornmeal pappardelle...

 

[winemaker81]

Beef in red wine sauce

 

[BarrelMonkey]

Beef in red wine sauce

Do you have a 'go-to' cooking wine? I bottled about 2 cases of 'hard press' wine from my 2021 pinot noir - basically re-pressing the pomace from the main press. It's quite drinkable but definitely a drop down in quality from the main bottling, so I mainly use it for cooking.

However, for my most recent sauce (post above yours) I used a bottle of the regular 2021 PN that was very slightly corked. Noticable TCA when you smell the cork, but honestly the wine wasn't that bad, albeit lacking a lot of the charm of a non-corked bottle. It seemed like a good way to use it up, life's too short to drink bad wine even if it's only slightly bad...

 

[winemaker81]

Do you have a 'go-to' cooking wine?

Whatever's convenient, although I lean towards using my less favorite wines. Unless there is something seriously wrong with a wine, all boiled wine tastes alike.

I sometimes buy Carlo Rossi Chablis and Burgundy in 4 liter jugs ... 'cuz the wine is "ok" and I need more jugs for the winery. It's something like $12+ USD for a new gallon/4 liter jug. I purchased Carlo Rossi at Walmart for $17, got 5.5 bottles of cooking wine from it, plus a free jug!!!

When I say the wine is "ok", that means it has no significant flaws. It is also not exceptional in any way.

Many moons ago the AWS chapter I belonged to did a Lambrusco tasting (cheap fizzy Italian wine). We were out of things to taste, and did it as a laugh.

The AWS scale goes from 0 to 20, with wines in the 9-11 range as being "average". IIRC, none of the participants (IIRC 10-12 people) scored a wine below 9 or above 11. The average scores for each wine were between 9.5 and 10.5.

TOTALLY average. There was absolutely nothing wrong with any of them. But as I said, nothing exceptional, either.

It's a different way to look at wines from what most wine drinkers think.

 

[winemaker81]

I had the urge for pizza again!