I spend the days in the farm enjoying life with the children. And part of it all is making things with them so they have fun. After gathering fresh veggies from the kitchen garden, we left to a small the dairy farm close by, and returned with a 5 qt of fresh milk. I transferred the whole thing to a large cooking pot and left it on the fridge overnight. The next morning we separated the cream and made buttermilk with it. I got a butter making kit the from Williams-Sonoma, but somehow can’t find it anymore so there is a very similar one at Amazon. The key apparently is to get fresh milk, but you can always get cream and do the experiment yourself and get an almost as good quality butter.
Then with the rest of the milk, I accidentally brought it to boil, and made really nice cottage cheese.
The fun thing is to experiment, just the way -I’m sure- cheese was discovered. I’ll keep posting more of my ‘experiments’ later. But for now I can share this beautiful cottage cheese, and fresh butter in which I also added some herbs like organic rosemary and lavender from the orchard as a dip.
If you have questions, please ask!
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- Preparing to make the ‘mistake’
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- Butter and herbs
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- The cottage cheese and herbs
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- Butter
Recordé cuando estando en la primaria (una escuela waldorf) nos llevaban al campo del sr. Klein y hacíamos todo el proceso. Desde ordeñar, separar la crema de la leche, hacer la crema y luego manteca y con el suero el queso!
Era genial y quedan tan buenos recuerdo y enseñanzas para compartir con nuestros hijos. Gracias por el recuerdo!
HI DELPHINA! Can I just say I love your experiments, it reminded me when I wanted to make whip cream, and ended up with butter! Please add more of segments of your cooking with your fresh herbs from your garden! If I could ask a question: I’m about to start to make a small herb and veggie garden. what veggies do you recommend for a 1st timer, and how much do you think I need to invest time to have a successful garden! Thank you!
It is winter where I live, I enjoy your
Instagram pictures…just read your blog
Posts…very nice…I enjoy the simple beauty
And livelihood of a family…beautiful
Countrside and family…very glad I took a
Moment to read…I love horses too !
What a happy accident! Just this afternoon, I was describing to my kids the amazing taste of fresh homemade butter that my mother used to make. In India, a home made cheese called paneer is made by curdling milk and then squeezing off all the liquid to get a semi-firm cheese that’s delicious. that was most likely also discovered through such an ‘accident’. 🙂
HOLA!! ME ENCANTA eL COTTAGE CHEESE ME PASARIAS LA RECETA POR FAVOR.
GRACIAS
MILI
Hola, Delfi!
This post is lovely! I love that you celebrate “imperfection” and you find beauty in serendipity :). As you say: “accidents” have given us a lot of discoveries like cheese, and the light bulb! Your celebration of things “rough on the sides” like nature and a face with no makeup are reassuring and necessary. At least that’s what I think.
There is a recurring conversation that I have with a lot of my girlfriends: There is *A LOT* of pressure for us women to be “perfect.” We are guided to look a certain way and have many achievements, to show off, and validate ourselves (all this is sometimes incredibly expensive, unattainable and so unlike of whom we truly are. Unlearning all of this is hard!
I what I like about your pictures (& I suppose that’s what you want to encompass w your hashtag): this “soil-in-my-hands” kind of perspective. I love your animals -hens, cats, horses, dogs, and once I saw a caterpillar!. So grounding -literally, and Beautiful! You are genuine! You could brag about so much, you have a clear set of values, and I admire that.
Sorry about the speech. But I believe in letting ppl know when they are inspiring, even if you haven’t met them. I’m also a nerd. I’m obviously going to read your blog, so I you asked what we’d like you to write. I love what you’ve written so far 🙂 but this is my take:
– your garden
-how to make flower arrangments (I love those that you make w silver cups, how do u do that??? what flowers to pick??)
– gardens that you visit around the world!
– how you set ur tables
– Your horses. what’s special about your favorite horses
– anecdotes and thoughts on how you see life (curious of what you mean by “Romanticism” in nature and farm life)
– stuff that captures your attention in your travels.
– Hidden gems in bs. as. & your favorite cities
– your take on aesthetics (like what do you want to capture or express w your art)
– Tips on traveling. I hate packing; it stresses me out to the point of crying.
-also, children, I don’t have kids, but this reminds me when I was a little girl, and it makes me smile.
That’s it. This is so long; I’m kind of embarrassed, but oh well.
Love, L
I meant: “You could brag about so much, *and you don’t* you have a clear set of values, and I admire that.
Oh! … and fava beans! first ones this year in my lunch today … grown from seed we found in the back of the seed drawer from 10 years ago! We plan to save most of these as they made a really big crop.