I was thinking that making cheese at home would be equal to rocket science and the effort wouldn’t worth it. But once I started to look for information on the web and found www.greenlivingaustralia.com.au I believed that it is worth to try.
After ordering all the necessary items and building up the courage, I bought the best milk I can find (6 litres of organic cow milk and 2 litres of goat) and tried fetta cheese first. Fetta is similar to Turkish Beyaz Peynir and one of the easy cheeses you can try at home.
I also tried Halloumi which also worked realy well and let me tell you my friend, the taste was awesome and far far far bettern than the shop bought cheeses. Check out the pictures at my Flickr account.
I also bought a cheese press and various cheese moulds and wax for hard cheeses from GLA. This weekend some friends of mine coming over to learn the process and they are also looking into making their own.
Missus and the kids loved my cheese and I am making more and more. Thanks to David at GLA for his generous 20 page booklet as well with my last order; I can now try hard cheeses to.
GLA also home for a nice forum full of like minded people who are very helpful in the subjects like gardening, preserving, cheese making, chooks and other green issues. The good thing is they share their experiences and this is hard to find on the web.
I strongly recommend everyone (who are keen) to try making cheese at home (first getting the ingredients from GLA) and join to the forum to discuss/share your experiences/failures.
