Dear Vigilant Watchman:

Greetings.  The cheese came out fantastic.  Maybe I've already told you
this.  The video is here--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h37-_UfFS1Q

At one point near the beginning, the gentleman says, "I swear" but I don't
recall any other offensive language.

With onion powder the cheese is great.  With a mashed up banana it is
great.  Alone on your bread or potato it will give nutrition.  My daughter
likes it plain.  Your emphasis on the coarse food is right.  This is no
time for emphasis on the delicacies and stuffed stomachs.


Mephibosheth

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Dear Vigilant Watchman:

More on Yogurt Cheese...

When making cheese the solid is the curds and the liquid that drips out is
the whey.  The whey is nutritious.  Nourishing Traditions calls for whey
in a number of recipes.  I plan to look it up for additional ideas on how
to use the whey leftover from the soft cheese experiment but I found the
following online--

Did you know that whey, the liquid left behind when separating curds from
fermenting milk, yogurt, kefir or other cultured dairy products, is a
nourishing food in its own right?

Whey, called "healing water" by the ancient Greeks, is filled with
nourishing probiotic (pro-life) activity, protein, healing fats, vitamins,
and minerals (particularly potassium) and is an excellent digestive aid,
yet lacks lactose.  It was frequently recommended by two founding fathers
of medicine, Hippocrates and Galen, to their patients.  In reference to
its living friendly bacteria, Sally Fallon, author of Nourishing
Traditions, explains:  “These friendly creatures and their by-products
keep pathogens at bay, guard against infectious illness, and aid in the
fullest possible digestion of all food we consume.”  [Many say that health
and disease begin in the gut.]

This healing water will help maintain a synergistic balance of the inner
ecosystem and encourage repair of gut dysbiosis – a condition that is more
and more common in today’s world and is an underlying cause of numerous,
now common “diseases” from allergies to candidiasis to autism.

Here are some ways to incorporate whey into your diet.

1. Drink it- straight, mixed with tea, a smoothie or fermented beverage

2. Freeze it into cubes and add to smoothies

3. Replace a portion of the water used to cook grains- a great way to
infuse more minerals into the dish

4. Soak your legumes in it to improve digestibility (1 tablespoon for
every 1-cup of water as recommended by “Nourishing Traditions, by Sally
Fallon”)

5. Lacto ferment fruits and vegetables - see Sally Fallon's "Nourishing
Traditions" or "Wild Fermentation" by Sandor Ellix Katz for instructions

6.  Make it into cheese!  Two options we've found so far- Norwegian
"Gjetost" and Ricotta

7. Feed to your pets

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The ice cubes for storage,  lacto fermentation, and cooking water sound good.

Mephibosheth