With just a small amount of elbow grease and a few pieces of inexpensive equipment, your whole family will enjoy fresh and aged cheeses made with all the love and care that good food brings. Whether you decide to make a quick and easy cream cheese, or try your hand at making a sharp, aged Cheddar, you will find that your cheese tastes much better than anything you can buy at your local grocery store. This site will teach you how to make two of the more simpler cheeses, Queso Blanco and Mascarpone. Both of these cheeses can be made using just the ingredients that you probably already have in your kitchen. Other cheeses require other natural additives such as rennet and starter cultures that you will have to obtain through a supply store. On the next page, you will see a description of the cheese making process for all cheeses, and the recipes for making Queso Blanco and Mascarpone cheese will follow.

Queso Blanco cheese is a simple Latin American cheese popular in many Mexican-style dishes. It is a crumbly, moist and slightly sweet-bland cheese that acts quite like Cheddar when used in cooking. Mascarpone is a delightfully sweet cheese that is wonderful eaten straight from a bowl! Although it looks like a thick, grainy sour cream, its sweetness makes for a wonderful dessert when mixed with fruit. Mascarpone is famous as one of the main ingredients in Tiramisu, the famous Italian dessert. Click here to continue!