Cheese escapades continue – making cheese at home

Cheeses after the compression

This thing just got real! I’m making cheese at home and not just talking about it! I received my order of Making Artisan Cheese: Fifty Fine Cheeses That You Can Make in Your Own Kitchen and some cheese moulds. Even better, whole milk was on sale!! So now I’m making gouda cheese.

Read on to find out who I almost flooded my kitchen and started thinking how I could replace Calcium Chloride.

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Learning workshop tools – a small side table from oak

My wife got a father’s day gift for me to use the municipality’s workshop. And oh boy I did!

We have just ditched our couch and bought two arm chairs. We needed a small side table to hold our wine glasses while we sit and read. Having the perfect size and shape proved difficult to buy so I decided this to be the perfect job for me to learn again how to use workshop tools.

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Traditional Kintsugi – Fixing my neighbours’ tableware

Working surface for Kintsugi

I follow few video sites, and wimp is probably my number one in it. One day I ran into this video about the practice of traditional kintsugi, where broken pottery is fixed and the flaw is made the most valuable part of the piece through application of gold. It instantly sparked my interest and I decided to give it a go.

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