Em, Author at The Big Cheese Making Kit

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Nov

White chocolate & ricotta cheesecake

Recipe taken from the amazing folks at BBC Good Food. For the base 50g butter, melted 150g digestive biscuits 50g amaretti biscuits sunflower oil, for greasing For the filling 200g white chocolate, chopped 5 leaves gelatine 6 tbsp milk 500g tub ricotta 300ml pot double cream 50g icing sugar 2 large eggs, separated To decorate Read More…

26

Nov

Ricotta, Mango and Coconut Christmas Log

Recipe from Dairy Goodness. Ingredients 1/2 cup (125 mL) unsweetened grated coconut 6 eggs, yolks and whites separated 1 cup (250 mL) + 2 tbsp (30 ml) sugar 2 tsp (10 mL) vanilla extract 1 cup (250 mL) pastry flour 3 cups (750 mL) fresh or frozen mangoes, diced 1 cup (250 mL) Ricotta 1 Read More…

26

Nov

Festive Mozzarella Salad

Recipe found on Anastasia. Ingredients 300 grams cherry tomatoes cut in halves 250 grams mozzarella cheese 1 teaspoon oregano 20 grams basil leaves 90 ml olive oil 20 ml vinegar salt and pepper Directions Put the cherry tomatoes and the mozzarella in a shallow salad bowl. Put the oregano, the basil leaves, the vinegar, Read More…

26

Nov

Christmas Tree Pull-Apart

By Angie Mcgowen at Eclectic Recipes. Ingredients: 1 can (13.8 oz) Pillsbury® refrigerated artisan pizza crust with whole grain or Pillsbury® refrigerated regular pizza crust 4 oz, or half brick, cream cheese 1 cup shredded mozzarella 2 tablespoons butter 1 clove garlic, minced very fine 3 tablespoons freshly chopped basil and rosemary 1 cup warmed Read More…

26

Nov

Mozzarella with Bacon & Roasted Peppers

Recipe taken by Christine Pittman on Cook The Story. Ingredients 4 strips precooked bacon, chopped ½ cup chopped roasted red pepper 1 clove garlic, minced a pinch of salt a pinch of black pepper 8 oz part-skim mozzarella cut into ½ inch cubes 2 Tbsp chopped green onion Put a small pie plate, gratin Read More…

25

Nov

This Christmas Vs My First Christmas by Ailsa

I launched The Big Cheese Making Kit in September 2012 from my spare room. I bought enough ingredients to make 400 Big Cheese Making Kits. I thought that would be plenty to see me through Christmas and into January 2013….that was far from the case! I launched the Kits on our website www.bigcheesemakingkit.com and www.notonthehighstreet.com Read More…

25

Nov

What I really want for Christmas by Jonathan

The best present I’ve ever received was a surprise Super Nintendo from my parents. I am now 26 and I probably would still be pretty happy with that present. Here are 5 things I am hoping Santa, Jim Carey or whoever it is this year will bring me: Self Tying Nike Trainers Nike made a Read More…

24

Nov

Why the Chilli Hamper is my favourite

I’ve always been a massive chilli fan, I’ll happily eat it everyday and it forms the basis of lots of my signature dishes. That’s why I was so excited to be ‘shopping’ for ingredients for our Big Chilli Hamper! We are so lucky that we get to spend time at foodie shows meeting other suppliers Read More…

22

Nov

Jonathan’s Cheese Making Tips

As a male who has limited kitchen (and life) skills, I thought making my own Halloumi/Mozzarella was out of the question. But I took on the task of making cheese for the first time using our kits and it was a total success. Give me some milk I can now whip up some of our Read More…

21

Nov

Top 10 Cool Christmas Jumpers

We’ve done a list of our favourite cheesy Christmas jumpers, now here’s our top 10 cool Christmas jumpers. Of course, one person’s cool is another person’s cheese… 1: Star Wars Darth Vadar Official Christmas Sweater 2. ASOS Christmas Jumper With Rudolph Winter Scene 3. Navy Reindeer Xmas Jumper Read More…