I cheese of my own making

So, apart from homemade yogurt - which is super easy and cheap once you think about how much yogurt you'll get out of one box of nonfat dry milk(which isn't cheap), I've decided to try my hand at homemade cheese!

This recipe seems easy enough. I decided for my first attempt to use just a half gallon of milk. If I do a full gallon, I will have to buy a bigger strainer. It's looking good so far, all that is left is the hour long wait in the strainer. I'm anticipating almost 6 cups of whey and will try to make the ricotta cheese that's mentioned in one of the comments below the recipe.

Forgive me and my camera for the lighting issue. The first picture is after I had just added the vinegar. The second one was after I had just added the salt. I plan to add some garlic to this batch and use it to make pizza this week.

I figured that whole milk being $1.87 for a half gallon is a pretty good deal for some fresh, yummy cheese.

before and after this latest haircut

He looks like such a big boy!!

New music

I think we'll be buying this at some point for Matthew(and his Mommy) :o)

Be more specific, please.

We have this Veggie Tales CD of kid Sunday school songs that Matthew loves. We play it at least once a day. He loves to dance to the music and I'm teaching him the motions to the songs. We do "Zaccheus", "The B-I-B-L-E", and, of course, "This Little Light of Mine", among others.

What I noticed today was that during the verse that goes "...don't let Satan blow it out, I'm gonna let it shine....", our little boy holds his finger up to his nose and blows his nose instead of his lips! Every time! It is too funny to watch - I'm just thankful that he doesn't have a cold right now! And I guess I'm going to have to be a little more specific in teaching him the motions! :o)

busy mornings

Workin' on the farm and making smoothies!

Baby food

I thought that this was an interesting post on processed baby food. Matthew is way past all of this --- it makes me thankful that he didn't get too much of the stuff in jars. However, I am not judging those who have made the choice to go this route and I am certainly aware that millions of babies grow up to be happy, healthy children after eating processed baby food. Like I said, I just found it interesting.