Fresh ricotta cheese, made at home, no $38 starter kit needed, or $20 a pound cheese, just half a gallon of whole milk, and a lemon.Once made, you can keep the ricotta cheese culture going indefinitely, using the left over whey, just add whole milk and salt to your next batch.

I include home made fresh cream cheese as part of my recipes, but it might be easier to list the recipe for cream cheese itself in here, because it is so delicious, quick and easy to make.

A tender mild farm egg omelette wrapped around fresh home made cottage cheese.#GlobalApron

Mozarella is made by boiling and stretching freshly made cheese curds to make an elastic firm cheese, perfect for slicing and melting on pizzas.This recipe uses the rennet in a slice of frozen leftover mozarella, fresh lemon juice, vinegar, himalayan rock salt and whole milk to make the next batch of fresh mozarella. Freeze slice of mozarella for next batch of mozarella, stays fresh up to six months.

By using dried dairy cream and Lemon juice, we can make any small quantity of fresh Mascarpone Cheese anytime, less than one cup, following the stove top double boiler method of cookpad member Spicequeen. Thank you, spicequeen.We use a little mascarpone cream cheese to make small Tiramisu desserts for two, dont want to have to buy a whole $32 pint of this expensive delicacy.

By making a small quantity of mayonnaise, it is always fresh when used. Here is the recipe for one cup, small egg quantity. Keeps peak freshness for a month in the fridge.

This Ukrainian and Russian sour cream is richer and thicker than regular sour cream and easy to make.You can make it in your oven, in an instapot or on your stove top in a cast iron pan from a half-cup-and-a-bit of 30+% fat heavy cream and a half cup of greek yoghurt or full milk, which will give you sour cream with 20% fat. Our store bought sour cream is usually 6% fat.Smetana is used to flavor soups, potato salads with herring or other white fish, and sauces in recipes such as in Beef Stroganoff. Stays fresh in the fridge for two weeks.

When you make fresh greek yoghurt overnight from half a gallon of full milk and a cup of leftover greek yoghurt, you end up with whey and yoghurt. When you pour off the whey, the yoghurt still has whey in it. Using salt and cheesecloth, twisting the cloth, and draining the mixture another day, the salt removes more whey from the yoghurt till it turns to a delicious fresh cheese that tastes like feta cheese. Reuse the whey.

Squash is a mild vegetable in many forms and tastes. This one is called chayote in Mexico and California, and Christophorus in Europe because Christopher Columbus brought it back from his trips.The size of an apple, it tastes like potato or cucumber or zucchini when fried or baked. Fries like bacon, 3 minutes per side. Makes a great cheese sandwich.

My cornflakes were stale in the box this morning, so I decided to bake them myself, without sugar. I used masa corn flour and sprinkled powdered sugar on in the bowl.

If you have never made inexpensive goat cheese before, here is our 2 hour recipe to make fresh goat cheese with a pan and a kitchen towel and a thermometer. All you need is lemon juice, vinegar and goat milk.To make the cheese tart, butter filo dough in a baking pan, goat cheese , basil, cherry tomato on top, drizzle honey over. Walnuts optional. Baked in 45 minutes.#GoldenApron23

The richness of home made butter will amaze you. Two cups of sweet cream make one cup of butter in your kitchen mixer. And if you don’t have a cow handy, you just buy a pint of sweet cream in the store. You will also produce 2/3 cup of fresh buttermilk. Great to make Ranch Salad Dressing with. Recipes follow.