{"id":13459,"date":"2013-03-23T13:07:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T18:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymouse.com\/?p=13459"},"modified":"2013-04-06T09:43:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T14:43:45","slug":"homemade-whole-milk-ricotta-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/23\/homemade-whole-milk-ricotta-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Whole Milk Ricotta Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"

An easy recipe to make creamy whole milk ricotta at home to spread on crostini, add to pasta, spread between layers of lasagna, or just eat by the spoonful while it’s still warm.<\/em>
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To begin again.
\nI try and try and try again,
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My family is often frustrated with the state of being, the simple condition of life. The monotony of daily life can be tiresome, wearing on us until we feel thin and weak, holding on to the threads of a well worn sweater. The same homework, chores, and piles of laundry welcome us home every night. We become lost to it.
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In those moments where life seems to be swallowing you whole, I vacillate between how to manage, whether by running away and taking a break from it all or switching up the routine right where we stand. Running is not always an option, though I wish it were at times. I’d love to plop all my children on a plane and go explore life someplace else for a while. Still, some days it’s best to just stop all of the customary routine and focus energy on doing something entirely different.
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\nBreaking the routine of spring break squalor required stuffing our car full with a single suitcase, packed between bursts of writing and the ordering of small hands entrusted with filling it. Snowboards lined the top of the truck, smallest to tallest (40″ to 76″), strapped down for the drive north. While my husband collated everyone’s gear, I sent the crew into the kitchen to turn the milk we wouldn’t be drinking into cheese we would be eating.
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\nWhole milk ricotta starts with milk in a pot. A bit of salt and lemon juice are the only things needed to turn hot milk into spreadable cheese that can be consumed on the spot or savored over the course of a few days. We turned it into gnocchi and filled a lasagna (recipes forthcoming), and then we headed out of our urban wasteland to the north where there were bigger hills to climb\u2026err, ride down<\/a>.
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