If you’ve ever made a tray of lasagna or layered a tiramisu, you might find yourself with half a tub of ricotta left over and no idea how to use it. Whatever you do, don’t toss it. Milky ricotta is neutral enough in flavor that it can go the route of sweet or savory, making…
Store-bought ricotta can’t hold a candle to creamy, rich homemade cheese. On top of being delicious, homemade cheese is as easy as heating up some milk and doesn’t require any special equipment besides a thermometer. Draining the curds in cheese cloth is optional — a thin T-shirt or dish towel works just as well. You…
Welcome to project pasta. Any eager home cook knows there’s nothing more satisfying than a lengthy cooking project that’s then showered with the “oohs” and “ahhs” of dinner party guests, families, or partners. And although cooking shortcuts and hacks are all the rage these days, there’s something primal about a kitchen project that requires time,…
In each step of You Can Do This’s series about making a lasagna entirely from scratch, we’ve walked you through making fresh pasta, ricotta, and Bolognese sauce: This final recipe puts all those components together in the oven. There’s no need to boil fresh pasta sheets in this lasagna recipe, as they are tender enough…
While it’s hard not to love the fresh slices of beef and robust salad bar at a churrasco or Brazilian barbecue restaurant, the real star of the show is the pão de queijo. These cheesy Brazilian breads, which are typically served as an appetizer, arrive piping hot with a crisp exterior and chewy, mochi-like interior….
What could go wrong with eating an extremely high-fat diet of beef, cheese, and sticks of butter? Well, for one thing, your cholesterol levels could reach such stratospheric levels that lipids start oozing from your blood vessels, forming yellowish nodules on your skin. That was the disturbing case of a man in Florida who showed…
In a meticulously planned scheme, robbers posing as wholesale distributors for a prominent French retailer managed to dupe London’s Neal’s Yard Dairy, making off with a staggering 22 tonnes of luxury cheddar, The Metro reported. The theft, involving over 950 wheels of premium artisanal cheddar, has rocked the cheese industry and left the dairy house…
