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So many of my readers ask what farmer's cheese is and where can they get it. Farmer's cheese is a dry curd cheese that's fresh or unaged. It is the most common Slavic cheese and is used in countless recipes like cheesecakes, strudels, nalesniki (crepe) and pierogi fillings and in savory dishes. Farmer's cheese is known as twaróg in Polish, surutka in Croatian and Serbian, tvaroh in Czech and Slovak, aludttej in Hungarian, varskes in Lithuanian, lapte covasit in Romanian, tvorog in Russian, skuta in Slovenian, and syr in Ukrainian. If you don't have access to an Eastern European deli and don't like to order online, you can make this cheese at home in less than an hour! Have a great weekend and make some fresh cheese!
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How to Make Farmer's Cheese
These step-by-step instructions will show you how easy it is to make twarog at home. You only need four ingredients -- whole milk, buttermilk, vinegar and salt -- some cheesecloth or butter muslin and butcher's twine. Read more.
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Polish Wloski Chleb (Italian Bread) Recipe
When you make cheese you end up with the cheesecurds and the liquid byproduct known as whey. Many people discard the whey (it was and still is fed to the livestock on a farm). But it's wonderful to use in recipes like this one for bread and the soup recipe below. Read more.
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Polish Barley Soup Recipe - Krupnik
Krupnik or barley is one of the most popular soups in the Polish cuisine along with barszcz, zurek, rosol and others. Infinite varieties exist like this vegetarian version that I make with whey, but stock or water can be used instead. Read more.
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Food Find of the Week: The Wine Doctor Intelli-Stopper
As much as I like wine, I'm not much of a drinker. So when I open a bottle of good wine to cook with, more likely than not it will go stale before I have a chance to use it again. Enter the intelligent wine cork from a company called Wine Doctor. The Intelli-Stopper is a "cork" that preserves the freshness, aroma and flavor of wine stored in opened bottles. A pump works in combinatinon with the Intelli-Stopper cork to remove the right amount of air from bottles ensuring that even days later wine will be as fresh and fragrant as when it was opened. Hooray, it really works! No more expensive bottles of wine down the tubes. Read more.
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