So today I made cheese. As I was a cheese making virgin I started with what is apparently the easiest cheese in the world. Which is pretend Ricotta. Apparently (and I know this from all the blog posts I've scouring to learn how to do this) real ricotta is made from the whey after you make mozza. I did not make mozza, so this is made out of straight milk.
Here's some excellent blog posts about how to make it:
Homemade goat milk ricotta by Kittbo (this is what I followed. Only I didn't milk a goat first.)
The Garden of Eating (hee hee) has excellent photos in her explaination.
Discovering Ricotta over at Bitten got me started on all this.
I used 2 litres of whole milk and two cups of buttermilk. That made maybe 2 cups of cheese. It really is as easy as they say, and really is that yummy. I will be making this from now on whenever a recipe calls for ricotta or cottage cheese.
We just ate half of it with jam. Mmmmm
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