Tag: ricotta
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Ricotta Ice Cream Will Rock Your World
Hi, it’s me again! Ricotta’s biggest fangirl! (Don’t believe me? See exhibits A, B, C, and D, for starters.) But seriously, I just made the best batch of ice cream I have ever created, and it is thanks in no small part to the greatness of ricotta. I got the idea from a customer, actually.…
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Fresh Cheeses to Freshen up Your Summer Picnics (and Everyday Life)
Fresh cheeses are the wee babes of the cheese world, you might say. Allowed to sit for only a few days before they should be consumed, these youngest cheeses are fresh in all senses of the word. Understanding fresh cheeses requires a quick lesson in cheesemaking. The milk, which must be pasteurized if a fresh…
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Ricotta: It’s Whey Better than it Seems
Growing up, I thought ricotta was kind of gross. It looked like cottage cheese, which reminded me of snot, and it tasted funny. Oh, how wrong children are about food. Or at least, how crazy it is that our tastes and preferences change and evolve so much as we age. Child-Courtney, in her pre-PhCheese primordial…