{"id":8629,"date":"2018-04-02T10:11:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T02:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/?p=8629"},"modified":"2018-04-01T23:07:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T15:07:23","slug":"making-cheese-at-citizen-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/02\/making-cheese-at-citizen-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Making cheese at Citizen Farm!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On an early Saturday morning I ventured all the way to 60 Jalan Penjara to visit the Citizen Farm<\/strong><\/a>. (Facebook is at Citizen Farm<\/strong><\/a> in case you want updates from them!)<\/p>\n

There’s no penjara<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0(jail) that I know of, just a nice edible garden farm of sorts.<\/p>\n

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My main reason was to attend the cheese making workshop by\u00c2\u00a0Annisa of Milky Whey Cheese<\/strong><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0who came all the way from Kuala Lumpur! (You can check out her instagram too at @milkywheycheese<\/strong><\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Also that’s a chicken who was eating the mint on the other side before one of the Citizen Farm people shooed it away since his food was already in a tray.<\/p>\n

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Ohhhh my goodness. I learned how to make mozzarella cheese. The “instant” kind (aka took at least an hour) while Annisa brought some curds she had made in KL where it would take maybe 6-12 hours I think?? Anyway, since we only had 3 hours of the workshop, ours was a ‘fast mozzarella’ type.<\/p>\n

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We learned the basics of what type of milk is needed, the pH of the milk to be good cheese and to not burn the milk.<\/p>\n

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It is like magic… pour things and make sure everything is according to the recipe and you get cheese!<\/p>\n

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And then time to split it into 4 because we were doing it 4 per table, heh heh heh.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, onwards to Annisa showing us what were the next steps to do and it was tempering the cheese in hot water.<\/p>\n

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Stretchyyyyyyyy mozzarella!<\/p>\n

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By stretching it she then shaped it into little balls.<\/p>\n

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And then we got to taste it! That’s Sam of Citizen Farm cutting some basil and some micro greens to go with the cheese.<\/p>\n

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Oh my goodness. It was just fresh cheese, basil and olive oil on it.<\/p>\n

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I took a bit of the microgreens too and it is so good? FYI, you can buy the herbs\/greens from Citizen Farm too if you check their website.<\/p>\n

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Not to forget besides the mozzarella, we made ricotta from the whey water of our milk. I didn’t know ricotta could be made like that!<\/p>\n

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And then a tasting of the cheeses of Milky Whey Cheese!<\/p>\n

My fav of the lot is the Sarawak which looks like a ball and tastes very peppery and the Melaka, a more milder tasting cheese.<\/p>\n