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Goat Cheese! From Milking Goats to Making Goat Cheese!

Take a tour of Harley Farms Goat Dairy with Chef Matisse. Learn how to Milk a goat and learn how to make goat cheese.

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I know Gruyere is great in gratin-but is it suitable for a wine tasting? I have not tried it unmelted… : )

Any ideas as far as presentation appreciated!
I have a couple of bottles of Auslese and Eiswein-does this pair well?

Swiss Gruyere is a very versatile cheese.
It is also a great table cheese with a nutty, pleasant flavor.
It's also one of the best melting cheeses( Fondue, on top of onion soup, and as you said Au gratin).
It goes great with Rieslings and some reds( not the stronger ones however).
Maybe a nice Pinot Noir.
Good choice for a cheese.

Ah presentation
Always serve with fruits such as grapes,brown pears and apples( those are the best for Gruyere) or Membrillo( quince paste) found at almost every cheese counter.

Email me if you need any other suggestions.
I'm sitting in front of 200 cheeses right now at our store!

Eiswein is great with blues
Auslese Riesling?–YES

Discovering America one cheese at a time. Recipe from the episode: Quick Apricot Salad

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When She drops by unexpectedly like. Maybe She likes them!?!

Yummy! Can I be Queen for a day and drop by?

The other day I was grocery shopping & I noticed that the Velveeta wasn't refriderated. I mean it is cheese right? Shouldn't that be cold? All the other cheese is kept cold.

After Velveeta is opened, it needs to be refrigerated. Remember, you're dealing with a "cheese product" and not a pure cheese. It's up there with some of the "jarred" cheeses, like the ones Kraft puts out and the ones that come in spray cans.

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Skiers and cross-country skiers seeking to ski in New England appreciate the quiet cross-country ski trails of Grafton, Vermont. This is the place to travel with children in New England.
Because there are old barns made into workshops for real blacksmiths who still hammer out horseshoes and make art on anvils.
The fall foliage in Grafton, Vermont, is spectacular and no New England Travel, no Vermont travel is complete without a stay in Grafton, Vermont. It feels like an America of the 40’s or 50’s.
Bellows Falls, Vermont, is about ten miles from Grafton, with the first covered bridge in Vermont. Bellows Falls and Grafton have many historic sites and crafts of Vermont.

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I'm wondering if the packaging doesn't simply say no hormones what so ever, then they can work around it and inject extra natural hormones (derived from other animals) into the cow.

I'd prefer to not have the extra hormones thank you much! Should I be looking for organic chees that say No Hormones (at all)
I said "Extra" hormones…as in injected.
Actually I think it might be possible to derive hormones that would increase milk output from other animals

For years the estrogen that menopausal women took for hormone replacment therapy (HRT), was dervied from horse's urine. Neat, huh? Yuck!

I'm afraid it seems ALL cow's milk will have some hormones– just like breastmilk contains some hormones. But I believe most organic cheese is made from milk that comes from cows that have not received "extra" hormones in order to make them produce more milk.

Personally, we've chosen to find local, raw milk. Everything in the grocery store now is ultra-pasteurized, which means your milk could stay "stable" at room temperature for SIX MONTHS! That's right, you're organic milk doesn't even need to be refrigerated if it's ultra-pasteurized. That's just creepy and gross to me. Yuck. You might want to look into it if you're drinking organic milk for health reasons.

Copenhagen Cooking makes cheese at home Part III

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here is an unique rhythm to life in being a dairy farmer. Jon Bansen is a third generation farmer, and owes his livelihood to his grandfather who began the family tradition. Recipes from the episode: Danish Soup Gourmet Mac & Cheese

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Rudy, a newborn calf’s experience as the “by product ” of the dairy. The truth about organic dairy.

“Economically, it is not possible for farmers to keep retired cows on the farm…. Organically raised cows will stay a part of the herd for an average of 6-8 years verses conventionally raised cows who only average 4 years….” (PPS: this means that organically raised cows have two more years of emotional and physical suffering and two more of their newborn babies stolen from them and murdered for Veal).

“We require that the packing plants (another word for slaughterhouse) get certified before we will do business. This means that our animals must be processed (brutally slaughtered) separately with clean equipment. This also means that they cannot use chemicals or pesticides in the plant.”
Organic Valley/CROPP Cooperative
Consumer Relations

http://www.peacefulprairie.org/outreach/theTruthAboutOrganicDairy2.html

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