Goat Cheese

Goat cheese always reminds me Heidi and Peter, cartoon characters from my childhood who lives on Alps with her granddad.. Her grandad used to make goat cheese and all her friends bullied her except Peter, because of her smelly cheese, and I used to feel very sorry for her and quite angry with her obnoxious school mates :))) Since then goat cheese is always my favorite and take me to my childhoods..

This is so easy to make and so delicious, especially on toasted bread. You will need a bottle of goat milk and small pot of live yogurt. Yogurt has to be live and plain. You need to boil the milk first then let it rest to come correct temperature. Tricky part is to find a correct temperature. Leave it for 10 min. and then put your little finger in, if first few second was OK then starts burning your finger, you are on the right track. It shouldn't feel too cool or too hot when you first put your finger in. Put the hot milk in to a glass or a ceramic cup and add 1-2 tablespoon of live yogurt and mix well but gently not vigorously. Put the lid on and cover it with blanket, especially fleece, if you have one. Leave it 8-10 hours and gently remove the blanket and put it to fridge for overnight. When your goat yogurt is ready, add tsp of salt and tbsp of lemon juice and gently heat it on stove, when it starts separated turn the heat of leave it on the pan until its cool.

Put a nice clean cloth on top of a colander replaced in a pan, purr boiled, separated yogurt gently to cloth and tie the ends, make a knot and put it on your tab to drain all the water, it will take quite a few hours. Your home made goat cheese is ready to put in the fridge. I used 2L goat milk and 2 tbs live, plain yogurt. You can also use cow milk or even a sheep milk if you can find it. It seems like a very long and complicated procedure but actually each step takes only few minutes and all you need to do is being patient and wait and remember good things always comes whom know to wait.