hi! I'm heather and a cheese-making newbie in eastern massachusetts. technically this is my 2nd post, I found this forum when I was in the middle of what I thought was a cheddar-disaster.... but I think maybe it disaster was averted, only time will tell.
I'm interested in home cheese making - my husband and I have been doing home beer brewing for a couple of years now and a few months ago I realized making my own cheese just kinda seems like another obvious hobby for a homebrewer. I really just like making things from scratch to share with others... the more elaborate the process the better somehow!
I also have a (bad?) habit of doing something once the RIGHT way, reading a bunch about technique, then not following recipes and experimenting and doing things that just SEEM like they might turn out good.
I also love baking and cooking and could probably spend weeks in my kitchen if I were left to my own devices. Another new hobby is making my own homemade liqueurs (cranberry spice, lime-ginger, & lime-cardamom-allspice are some of my most recent successes there).
Anyway, this seems like a great place for all sorts of great cheese makin' info, so I'm excited to be here and will probably spend hours reading everything now!
