Adam's Day in the Kitchen

I slapped all these photos up on facebook in one thread, and it looked so much like a blog post, I thought, "Hey! A blog post!"

We read on the weather forecast yesterday that a big winter storm is headed our way this week -- a "weather event," as we now call them. This got my hubby's cooking spirit all riled up, and he started slamming pots around and dashing to the grocery. It was a cookin' day, in anticipation of being snowed in! Does ice and a few inches of snow count as a snow emergency? Ha! In the Deep South is sure does!
First he made this Moroccan bread, khobz. I can never remember how to spell it. We don't know how to pronounce it. Who cares? It tastes delicious.

These are for supper tonight, with homemade chicken salad.
Then he made a fresh batch of granola with dried fruit. Very good.

He made another batch of bread, a recipe of his own invention. It'll be bubbling away until tomorrow, when he'll bake it off and we'll eat it.
Then Adam started something very new. He made mozzarella cheese. He used a gallon of milk, some rennet tablets and fresh lemon juice. I don't really know the whole process. I just jump in the kitchen occasionally and snap photos.

It looks a lot like yogurt, which he also made a batch of today.

Here's the finished mozzarella. We'll have it on pizza tomorrow night for supper when the wind is howling and the snow is blowing and the ice is slick on the roads.

This is some of the whey that you set the mozzarella in, in the frig. He used the rest of the whey to make ricotta cheese, which he said was too much trouble for the dab of ricotta he got.

The mozzarella is firm. Isn't it fun to think you can make this at home? From milk?

We'll be hunkering down in our winter weather event, giving you regular updates. I'm looking forward to two days on the couch, doing next to nothing except knitting, painting with Julia, smelling lovely aromas from the kitchen, and watching Downton and Sherlock on the pbs.org site. Delightful!