It has been awhile since i have written anything so ill give a recap of what Mike Webster (http://hudsonvalleyfoodiefun.blogspot.com/) and i do on the weekends.
We pressed apples back in February and we let them ferment into vinegar. We had a few bottles that were a little watery and we had two other bottles that were amazing. One was more apple in taste and the other vinegar so we are going to marry the bottles for one very good bottle of homemade apple vinegar.
I remember when Mike called me up and said i have 5 gallons of milk we are going to make cheese and other goodies from it. So a 5 gallon bag was sitting in the fridge Hudson Valley Fresh. Its amazing milk. So we made farmers cheese and buttermilk and infused the cheese with herbs and spices. Making your own cheese is amazing and pretty easy.
We also have been using the smoker a lot more lately and it has produced some wonderful results.
We also visited the first distillery opened in New York since prohibition Tuthilltown.
After we left Tuthilltown we headed back to Mikes house to start pressing apples so we can make hard sparkling apple cider. I wrote a blog but did not have any pics so im not going to write just show the pics.
We have a few other projects that are in the works and the Sparkling apple cider will not be done until around april when i graduate the BPS program from the CIA. I hope this will inspire someone to make your own products from start to finish because we have a lot of fun doing it.
One of the founding principles that we abide by is to always try something new. If there's something that we think up, you damn well better believe that we're going to try it. So everyone reading this, Try something. Anything. But go out and live life. We make memories, and around here that's a full time job. Start today!
ReplyDeleteBrandon - Nice blog, but someday I'll show you where that super secret shift button is, and then I'll stop twitching when I read your work. :) Peace