Surprisingly, I’m not really one for chocolate brownies, I tend to choose other goodies over the common brownie. That is of course, until I met THIS brownie a Cocoa powder, brown butter, walnut chunky treat. The recipe was recently published in Bon Appetit, and it is AMAZING.

I highly recommend.

I ate all my brownies… and didn’t photograph, I guess I’ll have to make more!

Cheese is good.

I’ve been meaning to make cheese for a while! I was even gifted with some cheese making supplies & a cookbook this past holiday season. Even though I read the book cover to cover, I never got around to making any cheese. It sounded scary. Boil a pot of milk, and magically you have cheese (oversimplification, yes)?

So, I signed up for a cheese cooking class at our local Co-Op! I feel much more comfortable learning it in a class, before experimenting at home!  It was on Saturday and on Sunday morning I purchased a new Stainless Steel pot, a slotted spoon and we were making cheese!

First the Mozzarella

Then the ricotta.

YUM YUM YUM!

The mozzarella & ricotta have been used in pizza, risotto and eaten fresh! They turned out FABULOUS… to our surprise!