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Trend Watch: Homemade Pudding

Forget cupcakes. Maybe even forget macarons. We've got our sights set on homemade pudding. We'd be willing to admit that this is just a personal obsession, except we're not alone......

Milk by Anne Mendelson
Book Review 2009

We've been slowly savoring this book for several weeks now, reading a few lovely snippets before bed and poring over recipes during breakfast. It's started to feel like a constant companion - always r...

Fresh Milk: What Kind Do You Buy?

We're in the middle of reading Milk by Anne Mendelson (full review to come soon!), and have naturally found ourselves becoming curious about the milk we buy for drinking fresh and for using in our coo...

Food Science: Why Eggs "Rise" in the Oven

We were trying out a new bread pudding recipe this weekend, and had a shock when halfway through cooking, the custard base puffed up around the bread parts - almost like a soufflé! We hadn't b...

Basic Techniques: How to Brown Butter

Brown butter is one of those magical secret ingredients that just seems to enhance the flavor of just about anything - sweet or savory. It has a rich nutty taste and the aroma is out of this world. Ev...

Weekend Project: Make a Soufflé!

Anyone planning on making a soufflé for your honey on Valentine's Day? Sweet or savory, a warm and pillowy soufflé definitely makes an impression! We also think they're a lot less fussy th...

Food Science: What is Lactose Intolerance?

More and more of us seem to be succumbing to lactose intolerance these days. And while having a built-in deterrent to eating lots of cheese and ice cream might seem like a boon if you're trying to wat...

Word of Mouth: Chantilly Cream

Chantilly (chan-tilly or shahn-tilly), noun: Sweetened and flavored whipped cream. Isn't it nice to know that there's a name for everything, even the simple whipped cream that home cooks have made fo...

Word of Mouth: Clabber

Clabber, noun: soured milk Back before there was baking powder to use as a quick leavener in baking, there was clabber. This was something that every farm wife or person with access to fresh milk cou...

What's the Difference? Half-and-Half, Light Cream, Heavy Cream, and Whipping Cream

It always seems like there's only half-and-half in the fridge when the recipe calls for whipping cream. Can one kind of cream be exchanged for another? Just what is the difference between all these cr...

Do You Ever Use Egg "Products"?

We've never actually cooked with egg products or liquid eggs like EggBeaters, preferring to stick with whole eggs that we can crack ourselves. But every once in a while we come across a recipe that ca...

Food Science: What is Pasteurization?

Last week we talked about how milk is homogenized and what that means for its nutritional value. This week, we talk about a related issue: how milk is pasteurized and why!...

Top Five Things to Do with Ricotta

There was a time when we'd use a cup or two of ricotta for a specific recipe and scratch our heads over what to do with the rest. Not wanting to waste it, we started adding spoonfuls to our everyday r...

About the Cream at the Top of Non-Homogenized Milk

Last week in our post about Straus Family Creamery, a reader commented: ok, i recently purchased the straus milk and was wondering what you're suppose to do with the cream top? do you put it over som...

Do You Have A Good Recipe For Homemade Butter?

I've been doing research on how to make my own butter. I like a recipe I found on Epicurian.com because it seems so simple, and I can make it in an electric mixer....

Straus Family Creamery
Sonoma County, CA

If you've shopped at Rainbow Grocery or Bi-Rite Market, you've probably seen those glass bottles with the cream-top milk and creamer. Most likely, they came from Straus Family Creamery in Sonoma Coun...

Look! Shelf-Stable Organic Milk

Browsing through the organic aisle of our big-box grocery store the other day, we did a double take. Something seemed out of place. We scanned again, then found it: a familiar milk carton on a shelf. ...

The Average Cow Weighs... Cow Trivia from Shatto Dairy

Know your milk! (And cream...) Do you know how much milk the average cow gives in a day? How about how much the average cow weighs? Find out below - these answers plus more dairy trivia from our recen...

Local Farm Profile: Valley View Farm - The Creamery Tour
Boston

Goats and New England barns are well and good, but let's get to the good stuff: cheese! Click through to see how Valley View Farm turns their goats' milk into delicious farmstead cheese......

Where Does Milk Come From? A Tour of Shatto Dairy in Kansas City

This being Ice Cream Month and all, we wanted to focus on the ingredients and producers that let us make this sweet creamy treat. So today we have another sort of treat for you: a tour of a dairy farm...

Local Farm Profile: Valley View Farm--Part I!
Boston

A few weeks ago, a friend invited us on a farm tour being sponsored by Slow Food Boston. The destination was Valley View Farm, a goat farm and producer of farmstead cheese in Topsfield, Massachusetts....

Food Science: What is Buttermilk?

In all our recent posts on buttermilk and what to do with it, we realized that there's one topic that we haven't covered. What, exactly, is buttermilk?!...

Good Cheese: Piave Vecchio

We got a little daring the other day and decided to break the mold, step away from tradition, and try something a little new with our ravioli and olive oil. In other words, we skipped the Parmigiano a...

Product Review: Goat Butter

I first had goat butter at Bar Tartine a few years ago, where it was served as an appetizer with radishes and salt and a very nice glass of sparkling rose. Swoon. I was smitten and wanted to know m...

Cooking With Colostrum

Faced with a pint of raw cow's colostrum at the farmers' market last week in Santa Monica, I found it hard to not to say yes. So there I was with this pricey elixir and no idea what to do with it. ...

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