July 2026
Formaggio Success!
It has been over four months, and I decided it was time to give it a shot. If you haven't read the earlier post(s), back in early March, I made a parmesan cheese wheel from goat milk. I have been anxiously waiting for enough time to pass to try this first wheel, and hopefully give me confidence for the rest of the wheels in the refrigerator, and encourage me to explore further. I really want to make a swiss and a blue cheese. I thought it smelled incredible. However, there is clearly something I need to learn, or some tools [...]
June 2026
Kunckle O’ Pork
Should you choose to make the very wise decision to request some spectacular Rock N Feather Acres pork, I strongly encourage you to explore all the meat options available in the cut sheet (Cut Sheet). Back to the story, I recently made one of my favorite "other things" you can make from pork. It is a German dish called Schweinshaxe... Pork Knuckle. In your order, this will be the hocks. Unfortunately, Zimmermans skins the hog before it goes in for processing, so the hocks don't have skin. I am working on a solution for that, but I am not there, [...]
March 2026
Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Nope. This is not about Jerry or his Racecar. Neighbor friends had more goat milk than they needed, couldn't store it, and didn't want to throw it out. So? They offered it to me. They figured at least it could go to the pigs and increase the marbling. They were, of course, right, but that is not what I wanted to do. I wanted to experiment with something that I always wanted to do. Maybe not always, but for a while. I wanted to make milk products. Tiffany has enjoyed cream from goat milk for quite a while as I [...]