Weekly Cheese Goals

Sometimes when I am away from home I find myself starting to dream about all the cheese I will make and the things I will do when I get home. I usually make a list on a sticky note, but this week I thought I would write them down here, so you could see the planning too. Because planning and bulleted lists are one of the best and most fun things anyone can do.

This Week's Cheese Goals:

• Eat the (first!) bloomy rind cheese (or possibly just stare at it suspiciously for a while) and then eat the baguettes I will make to go with them.


• Write a blog post about all the ways I messed up on these and speculate on how to improve them.
  Bake a second patch of bloomy rind cheese: ash half the batch and age the other without ash and then think about the differences.


• Maybe make TWO batches of the bloomy rinds and do a batch with Penicillium candidum and Geotrichum candidum and a batch without the G. candidum and then think about the differences.
  Pay more attention to turning these little bloomies in the first few days to improve the rind development because I am pretty sure I screwed that up pretty hard.


• Make little fresh rounds with NEW CULTURES! I know! I can hardly stand it! And then eat them and spend a lot of time talking about the taste variations.


• Roll the little rounds in herbs or spices or wrap them in pretty leaves or something to make them look and taste fancier.


• What sort of herbs or other flavors do you think would be interesting or tasty?


• Make another stinky washed rind cheese because I am seduced by controlled mold growth and stinky smells.


• If there is more milk (and there will be): make cheddar, jack, or some other pressed aged cheese.


• Post pictures of cheese.

Other Goals:

• Sterilize all my cheese cloth in boiling water and store in plastic bags according to size.


• Finish plating my herb garden.


• I think I should plant a ton of lavender in my garden! Yeah.


• Work on Grace's room a lot because when we finish her room we get to start on the utility room!


• Stare at my chickens and will them to spontaneously lay eggs.


• Play outside.