Monthly Archives: October 2011

We’ve been eating a lot of spinach lately. It’s growing like a weed in the veggie patch. The more I harvest, the more it grows. We’ve been eating a lot of ricotta too; they’re perfect bedfellows. So when I heard about a cheese making demonstration that would teach the intricacies of making ricotta, mozzarella and mascarpone, I booked myself a seat. I was spurred on by the $9.80 price tag on a single ball of buffalo mozzarella I’d bought at my local delicatessen a few days prior. It was an expensive topping on spinach and ricotta cannelloni (a Jamie Oliver recipe that’s totally worth a road test) and the thought of making both cheeses and growing my own spinach for the dish was a challenge I couldn’t pass up. Continue reading →