Ever want to make your own cheese? Mozzarella is one of the easiest cheeses to make and often one of the first cheeses that novices will venture to make at home. Below you’ll find a really easy mozzarella recipe to start you off on your path to cheesemaker. What you will need If you’re going […]
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The Joys of Gorgonzola
Gorgonzola is an Italian blue cheese sold in two styles: mild, creamy Dolce and aged, spicy Piccante. Here is how they differ, where the name comes from, and how to eat it.
Fontina: an Italian Alpine cheese
Fontina is an Italian raw milk cheese from the Val d’Aosta region of Italy. The Aosta Valley is a semi-autonomous, French-speaking region in north west of Italy, located near the Alps, by the French and Swiss borders.
Cream-filled Mozzarella, aka Burrata
Burrata is a unique, fresh Italian cheese, usually made with cow’s milk, that has a secret surprise. From the outside, it most resembles a ball of mozzarella, but in fact, this is a deception.
Mystery cheese
It’s easy to eat cheese when it’s right in front of you, but it’s hard to write about when you don’t know what it is. Do you know what cheese this is?
Cappelletta
A very soft, unpressed three-milk robiola from Piedmont that sweats on the plate and is best on warm bread.
Mascarpone madness
Mascarpone is an Italian fresh cheese made from cow’s milk. It is straw yellow color with a soft texture and mild taste. It is a fresh curd cheese, but unlike most cheeses it does not use a starter culture or rennet: the cream is heated and curdled with a little acid (traditionally tartaric acid, often […]
Caprino Cheese
Caprino cheese is made of goat’s milk and is from the Piedmont region of Italy; its name actually comes from the word capra, which means goat.
Robiola Oro
A creamy, rich cow’s milk robiola from Italy, tried with a baguette, tomatoes and chardonnay.
Tomino Boscaiolo
Tomino Boscaiolo is a soft Italian cow’s milk cheese made for melting. Here’s how it went in a skillet, with a Merlot that didn’t help.