Brunch in Lost City, West Virginia. Baked eggs with Sheep Gouda from Valley Shepherd Creamery in NJ with MT, TT, WT, AT. Eggs fresh from the chickens in the backyard hen house.
Baked Eggs in Lost City WV
Making Sheep Cheese at Valley Shepherd Creamery
Valley Shepherd Creamery – Watch the Video. America’s Heartland PBS episode 415 Dec 10, 2008. New Jersey is home to a different kind of farming operation. The Valley Shepherd Creamery makes a wide variety of cheeses from sheep’s milk. (6:12 minutes)
First of Valley Shepherd Cheese Eaten
Jan 31, 2009: The NJ folks picked up the first 3 cheese wheels at Valley Shepherd Creamery from our Oct 19, 2008 cheesemaking class. The phone message said, “The cheese is yummy.” Cheese eating party to be planned down South. M said it had complex flavors.
New Jersey Cheese
Amram
Bobolink
milk: cow
We went to visit NJ and went to this dairy in Warwick, NJ. They make several kinds of cheese, and we were able to taste a very tiny portion of them. Amram was closest to brie; we got several others.
Shepherds Logue (0.55 lbs, $24 per pound, $13.20 total) Cave aged 4+ months. Brick shaped with an external rub of herbs de Provence.
Oldwick Shepherd (0.53 lbs, $22 per pound, $11.66 total) Cave aged 3-6 months. Mold ripened. Earthy aroma, nutty smooth finish. Pyrenees style sheep’s milk cheese.
Crema de blue (0.48 lbs, $20 per pound, $9.60 total) Raw mixed blue cheese. Aged 60 days. Creamy, with a smooth rich flavor.
Shepherds Cushions (1.00 lbs, $2.50 a pound, $2.5o total) Brie style cushions; Aged to perfection; creamy and runny. Not shown in photo.
Valley Shepherd
all raw sheep
Three from the dairy where we made cheese. I think the difference in Shepherds Logue and Oldick Shepherd was the kind of rennet used. All very nice.
They gave very detailed receipts — weights and descriptions of cheese.