Let us know how the pie and home-made Caerphilly goes @Obelixx. I substitute leeks instead of regular onions for most recipes. Buttered leeks topped with cheesy breadcrumbs is a lovley supper by itself, or as a side-dish with a roast dinner. I didn’t make Welsh Cakes yesterday as planned as I couldn’t do the rubbing-in with my bee sting finger! Any day can be Welsh Cake day though, so watch this space.
I sometimes don’t bother with the white sauce element, and just have a nice thick breadcrumb and cheese topping on top of leeks simmered for about 10 minutes then some butter to coat them. Enjoy!
@Obelixx, when I had a couple of Jersey cows I made cheese, but it was mostly cream cheese with herbs and cottage cheese. Once I tried to make cheddar but I didn't have enough milk and I think I left it to drain too long, it turned out too thin and dry. You need a heck of a lot of milk for hard cheese.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
@Busy-Lizzie I know. 10 litres of milk to make one kilo of cheese but maybe a bit less for crumbly Caerphilly or Lancashire. I have a friend in Belgium (old gardening group) who makes her own cheeses, usually goat but sometimes cow, and who has kindly just sent me info about where to get cultures and so on plus a recipe for Caerphilly. I think the hardest part is going to be finding good milk during the confinement. No dairy cattle round here and certainly nothing suitable in the SMs.
She says I can feed the whey to tomatoes but not salad plants.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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@Obelixx ... do you ever feed the chickens ‘meal’ rather than pellets? If so you could heat the whey and stir some into the meal to make a ‘hot mash’ as as treat ... especially good to encourage them into lay if they’re going broody, or if they’re moulting.
Tired now so night night all ... sweet dreams 🥱
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
They don't like the pellets @Dovefromabove. I had to buy some one weekend after discovering the place where I usually buy the big bags of mixed grains and linseed closes at midday on Saturday. The other place only had the pellets in a huge paper sack so I didn't know till it was too late. They tossed it all over the floor of their hut. Very cross.
They also get fruit and veg trimmings from the kitchen, cooked potato peel, pumpkin seeds etc and all the seeds, weeds and slugs, snails, assorted invertebrates and their eggs that they can find. Their daily treat is a tin of sweetcorn and they all come running for that.
I'm planning to see if the garden birds will eat the pellets instead. Maybe the pigeons will go for them.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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I didn’t make Welsh Cakes yesterday as planned as I couldn’t do the rubbing-in with my bee sting finger! Any day can be Welsh Cake day though, so watch this space.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/cheesy_leeks_46292
I sometimes don’t bother with the white sauce element, and just have a nice thick breadcrumb and cheese topping on top of leeks simmered for about 10 minutes then some butter to coat them. Enjoy!
@Busy-Lizzie I know. 10 litres of milk to make one kilo of cheese but maybe a bit less for crumbly Caerphilly or Lancashire. I have a friend in Belgium (old gardening group) who makes her own cheeses, usually goat but sometimes cow, and who has kindly just sent me info about where to get cultures and so on plus a recipe for Caerphilly. I think the hardest part is going to be finding good milk during the confinement. No dairy cattle round here and certainly nothing suitable in the SMs.
She says I can feed the whey to tomatoes but not salad plants.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
They also get fruit and veg trimmings from the kitchen, cooked potato peel, pumpkin seeds etc and all the seeds, weeds and slugs, snails, assorted invertebrates and their eggs that they can find. Their daily treat is a tin of sweetcorn and they all come running for that.
I'm planning to see if the garden birds will eat the pellets instead. Maybe the pigeons will go for them.