Really simple homemade cheese

You will need: Milk, vinegar, salt, cloth

Step one: Pour milk into saucepan over med heat

Step two: Bring to a boil, stirring constantly so it doesn't burn or get that creepy film on top

Step three: Remove from heat and let it sit for 5 minutes

Step four: Add vinegar while stirring. Add as much as it takes to curdle. You will be able to tell when it curdles. I promise.

Step five: Let it sit some more, maybe 20-30 minutes depending on how much patience you have

Step six: Line a colander with a cloth. I've used anything from a tee shirt to a cut up bed sheet. Just avoid fuzzy stuff.

Step seven: Strain your liquid through the cloth/colander by letting it sit or just gathering the ends of the cloth and squeezing it, depending again on your level of patience.

Step eight: Add salt, herbs, pepper, maybe some lemon... whatever you like!

*The cheese will be the consistency of soft goat cheese. A quart of milk makes about 1/2 to 3/4 cup of cheese. *

What to use it for....

-manicotti filling

-Calzones stuffing

-cracker spread

-pizza topping

-add vinegar to the final product, strain for longer, and it will be remarkably similar to feta

-I'm open to suggestions

-Let me know if you try this with goat cheese. I'm dying to know if it works, but asking for the milk of someone's goat would be like asking to milk their newly lactating cat... it wouldn't go over well