Say 'Homemade Cheeeeese!'

Velveeta is not cheese. It is a man-made creation using preservatives, dyes, and weird chemicals. Yes, it melts well, and you can buy bricks of it for very cheap, but it is essentially flavored plastic. I hate Velveeta, and the entire packaged food industry it is a part of, so I put my lactose-intolerance aside and made my own cheese this past week out of raw, unpasteurized goat's milk.

Everyone ok still? The use of terms such as 'raw' and 'unpasteurized' sometimes evoke hysteria in certain people, but it is completely unfounded: how do you think cheese was made before the invention of electricity and refrigerators?

Anyway, making your own cheese is super easy. To make ricotta to use in pastries, cheesecakes, or in lasagna requires a pot, a gallon of raw milk, and some vinegar. That's it. If you can stir, you can make cheese. I made a harder, more solid variation of this by adding salt and garlic to my strained curds of ricotta, creating a salty, garlicky, amazing hunk of cheese that my boyfriend and I devoured in less than 36 hours. I never thought twice about the goat's milk, except that I appreciated the fact that I still have a chance to get good, wholesome milk straight from the teat. Thank goodness there are agrarians out there that still believe in doing things the way they once were, when man and beast had inter-dependant relationships built on trust, respect, and responsibility. 

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[yeah right]

This is fine, but really, velveeta isn't all that bad. Kids LOVE it, and the big folks find it kinda tasty too.