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My kosher cheese article…

http://thecjn.ca/food/looking-what-makes-cheese-kosher (Except I didn’t put all those wonky hyphens in there!) And I most certainly didn’t use the word “ramifications”… oh, whoops… yes, I did. Which brings us to. Tired-Word Tuesday: Ramifications Like “Ramparts,” it sounds vaguely obscene.  Like “rampaging,” it sounds vaguely violent and messy.  But like its very ownself, it means just about… nothing.  And I really did write it in my article.  Shudder.

Mmm… good – Pesach Day 1: Eggs and cheese!

First up:  eggs.  Other than a stack of blintz leaves, which I’m going to slice into lokshen, I’m not doing anything with eggs tonight, but since every single dessert calls for a million separated eggs (we don’t eat gebrochts, so there’s no matzah meal around here), I always do them ahead of time.  Now, they’re all lined up, waiting, in the fridge – each baggie neatly labelled according to its contents (ie 6W for 6 whites, though honestly, if you can’t tell whether it’s yolks or whites, you shouldn’t be eating it!).  I normally just plop the yolks into the baggies and they congeal somewhat, so I decided to mix in a bit of sugar (you can also use salt), which is a tip for freezing egg yolks.  These are not being frozen, but I’m hoping it will help a little.     But I’d say the evening’s unqualified success is… CHEESE!  Not hard cheese; I’ve given up on making that, and just went and bought some today.  But here are batches of homemade ri...