But Wait, There's More!

The title of this post sounds like an infomercial doesn't it?  In the last post we showed you how we made some fresh mozzarella from LuLu's milk.  Once you are done with that, you are left with a big pot of whey.  Normally with whey, we use it to lacto-ferment cabbage, cucumbers, carrots, and other vegetables.  Sometimes we feed it to the chickens.  They lay more eggs after drinking it.  But today, we'll show what else you can do with your whey.

You can make homemade ricotta cheese.  To your pot of ricotta, add some whole milk.  We added a pint.  You'll heat this up to 200 degrees F.  While stirring, you pour in 1/4 cup of apple cider vinegar.  Turn off the heat.

We pour this into a colander that's been lined with muslin cloth:

What you'll notice floating in the whey is some tiny particles of protein.

We tie the muslin cloth in a knot and hang it over a bowl to catch the whey.  Tricia has rigged this apparatus with chopsticks.  Don't laugh, ha ha.  It works.

After several hours open the muslin cloth.  The cloth will contain ricotta cheese!

We put it into a bowl.  It is tasty.  You can add salt and herbs, if you'd like:

What can you do with ricotta?  Well the perfect thing to to after adding your herbs and salt is to make lasagna.  We've also grated the mozzarella into the lasagna as well.

We plate our lasagna beside some fresh picked snap beans that are still producing as the frosts have evaded us thus far.

Delicious!  And it's about a close to farm to table as you can get.