Just like the Pioneers

My sister in law, Tammy, asked if we would be interested in learning some new skills...so we said sure. We have started making our own cream cheese (it's still in the process) and yesterday finished our first batch of homemade yogurt. It was awesome. Right now our cream cheese is in a cheesecloth suspended from a spoon so that the liquid whey can drain away from the cheese. *From the liquid whey we are going to make ricotta cheese, etc.. We will be going over later today so we can continue on with the cream cheese. The yogurt was started on Tuesday and was finished yesterday. It was a plain yogurt and then we added a jar of homemade canned cherries from last year. Mike made a syrup from the cherry juice and we pitted and sliced the cherries. It was soooo yummy. We are excited to make more yogurt and try some different flavors-maybe some peach, pina colada, strawberry....MMMmmm