Having procrastinated cheese making for a while, I got cracking on it today and have a great batch of homemade mozzarella to show for it.
I followed the recipe from Home Cheese Making for “30 minute mozzarella”. I used pasteurized (but not ultra-pasteurized) homogenized milk, almost 4 litres of it. I didn’t have any powdered citric [...]

I’ve been reading the latest set of reader question published by the New Scientist, “Do Polar Bears Get Lonely“. It’s quite good. In fact, it’s seriously hindering my reading of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma“, another Christmas present, which has much smaller writing and is thus less inviting.

The reason I bring that up here is that a [...]

So the lettuce seedlings died, and the salad leaves and kale survived. I use the term ’survived’ loosely as the kale was just banished to the balcony by my cohabiter where they will presumably perish. I would have put them in the greenhouse only the outside parsley is streets ahead of the greenhouse parsley so [...]