The past several days have been jam packed with Annie Performances, serving duties and celebratory outings. My folks just returned from their trip to Thailand and David had a birthday. It's during these kind of weeks that you do what you can to keep it all moving forward. I am happy to report though that it really was a great week! I laughed a lot and truly enjoyed the whole thing. Valentines Day was the first night that I didn't have to go out in over a week, so Adam and I thought it would be fun to make Parmesan.
There is different info out there on what to do, but we followed the directions that were included in our starter kit from www.Cheesemaking.com in addition to some advice we found on various blogs. The interesting thing about making cheese is not that it is difficult, it just takes a good amount of time and some of that time requires very careful attention. Adam and I coordinated our efforts. For over an hour he sat in front of the sink stirring and holding a thermometer while I added boiling water around our pot of curds and whey slowly bringing up the temperature 3 degrees every 5 min.
There are intervals in the process where you have 20-30 min of letting a stage set or rest. We started watching Doomsday Preppers. Unfortunately I did not finish the cheesemaking strong--asleep on the couch. Felt kind of bad about that.
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