Saturday, February 9, 2008

Now I just need some spinach.

I made cheese!

Specifically, paneer.

Here's the associated anecdote. I think it was Wednesday, I was talking to my friend, and he said:

"Yeah, I got way too much milk, and I was thinking of giving you some of it."
"Um?"
"Yeah, I have a whole unopened gallon of low-fat milk. Do you want it?"
"...sure? When does it expire?"
"February 12th."
"Um...yeah, okay. I guess I could make cheese out of it."

And so here we find ourselves with a pint of freshly made paneer. It's actually quite tasty, if I do say so myself, and I am looking forward to attempting to make one of my favorite Indian dishes, saag paneer, upon my return from Atlanta. Hopefully the stuff will keep.

This was my favorite part of the process:


I was trying to imagine how I would explain the situation to a police officer.
"Okay young lady, what have you got here?"
"Oh, that's a pair of pantyhose. Full of cheese."
"...?"
"Well, I couldn't find any cheesecloth. and they were on sale!"

Yeah, my life is funny.

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