Jack Cheese Round

Made about 5lbs of Jack Cheese! It's ready to be dropped in a brine and then aged for 4 months...don't know about waiting that long though!!!

YouTube - Fresh Mozzarella at Tutto Italiano

YouTube - Fresh Mozzarella at Tutto Italiano

YouTube - Mozzarella Making Class

Check it out! I decided today is a good day to make mozzarella and started looking online to see what videos there were on the subject, this one is fun! It's a class at a restaurant with an old cheese maker in the Pastosa kitchens:

YouTube - Mozzarella Making Class

Saturday Afternoon Canoe Trip & Paneer

A Saturday afternoon canoe trip with the girls on Buck Lake.

Then a stir fry dinner with vegies from the farmers market and some fresh Paneer cheese I made after getting home. Hillary said it was the best tasting Paneer she's ever tasted!!

Kid Heaven!

Truely a kids idea of heaven!

We get 4H kids here frequently and they all love to play with the goats, expecially when we have a ton of baby goats on the ground!! These two kids took home another goat for milk, last year they bought two young doelings to show.

Hansville Creamery

Hansville Creamery Goes To Market!!

The kids are selling milk! Ok, not the goat kids, my children! We've been going to the farmers market in Poulsbo for the last few weeks and it's been great. People are really suprized when they taste our milk cause it doesn't have that 'goatie' flavor they seem to expect. It's all in the diet, we feed alfalfa hay and a special dairy mix which they only get when they are on the stand being milked, it helps keep them busy while we get all that milk!

It's a nice sunny day in the first picture, which is not what I see now when I look outside! It's pouring rain! I looked at the radar on K5TV and it’s a solid mass of green and yellow, it’s a wet day all day according to the weatherman. I suppose that's good, it means I'll not have to water the garden today! But milking is going to be a muddy sporting event...did you know that goats hate rain? All the goats are hiding in the barn! I see an occasional nose stuck around the corner as if to answer the eternal question – is she coming yet? Nope! She’s not there yet! Is that her? Nope! That’s the stupid chicken laying eggs under the feeder! Is that her? Nope! But she let the dogs out so she should be coming soon!

Hansville Creamery is open!

We're so excited!!!
The girls are finally producing some wonderful sweet milk!

Here is Chief and the babies, we put them outside for a few hours to play in the sun with Chief to look after them.

Here are two paying King of the Rock!

Here are the babies and Chief making sure everyting is safe, the little one next to him is my favorite little doe, she so tiny she was only 5lbs when she was born!! But she makes up for it in moxie, she trounces all the larger boys as she is so light she can walk over their backs to get to the bottle with milk!!