My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I am a certified cheeseaholic and have taught my kids well, so this book was PERFECT for our family!! My 9-year-old was so excited to make cheese with Momma! We started nice and easy with Queso Blanco and it was smooth sailing. She loved being involved in all of the steps to making the cheese and it came together nicely. We then made the Fried Queso Blanco which I loved. She wasn’t thrilled with it, but then she doesn’t take to new flavors quickly. The flavor isn’t like her “normal” cheeses, so we moved on.

Up next was Feta. Said 9-year-old will be 10-years-old next month, so we are going to make homemade, make your own pizzas for her birthday. I love a oil base (vs. tomato) and multiple cheeses and really like using feta on my pizza, so I wanted to make some feta now so it could cure. This one was more intense in the making, but it once again came together smoothly. Feta is not her thing, so she was less interested in being a part of every step of the process so I did most of this one alone albeit with some help from her. Feta isn’t normally made with cow’s milk, so the flavor isn’t exactly the same, but it’s close enough that I’m very happy with it!

We haven’t made the mozzarella yet as we want it to be closer to her birthday so it’s fairly fresh, but I have made mozzarella before and am confident that this recipe will work wonderfully. There are more cheeses to try–cream cheeses, yogurt and ricotta and I’m sure the recipes on these are great as well. We’ll see as we try them one by one.

This is a great book to get your kids involved in the kitchen! As a home school mom I loved the fact that she was learning the science behind the cheese, math at times (we only used one gallon of milk, so everything had to be halved) and having lots of fun doing it! I strongly recommend this book for parents of cheese lovers out there. Let them have a hand in making their own cheese and then the joy of eating what they made. It’s worth it!!

I received a copy of this book from Storey Publishing for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.