Thank you all for all your well wishes and helpful tips in my search for Moose milk!
It was quite the search. It saddens me more to say than it will be for you to hear, I came back with no Moose milk (for crying out loud it wasn't for our lack of effort). We searched and searched and even have pictures to prove it! (but they are only PC compatible and I am a MAC girl so you'll have to do without).
However, I did manage to find a sassy pair of polka dotted boots that have been gracing my feet all week in the cheese room, and quite the week it has been. I have finally reclaimed my all girl cheese room! I came home this evening and realized that I find making cheese insatiable and cannot seem to slow down! The week away was quite lovely even if I didn't find a lactating Moose to milk. I did however learn that if you get married in Montana that they ask you first if you are intoxicated and second if your partner is your sibling! (It was second hand knowledge :-).
I have some more disappointing news to share, sadly I had a very important member of my cheese making crew pass over to the other side. R.I.P. My gram scale is scheduled to be picked up in the morning, in the recycling bin :( It was early Sunday morning when I realized we had made our last batch of cheese together. By Sunday afternoon I was scrambling like an egg to try and find a new one. Where does one find a gram scale on Sunday afternoon in Nowwheresville you may wonder.
You don't! there are no gram scales to be sold!
So into Portland I went to the most unlikeliest of places! After consulting a friend I headed out to 82nd avenue to what I learned was called a Head Shop (where they sell glass pipes, smoker novelty and things to smoke (basically a pot smoking shop)). Before the transaction was complete I was starting to feel the giggles coming on, because I was certain that after questioning the fellow on the accuracy of the scales and paying with cash that he thought I might be a drug dealer. So, I not so casually pointed out that I was a cheese maker and that I measure out my culture with the scale. One eyebrow went up and he said "uh huh" and out I went to start my next batch of cheese thankful that cheese making had widened the varieties of stores I shop in.
So I actually have some news news! I know all of you are my hard core fans and will shlep out to the farmers markets in any weather to see me and get some yummy dairy but what if you were in an emergency and you couldn't make it? Or if the 100+ heat or hail and snow prevented you from attending? Wouldn't you just love a backup? Or a front up? Or rather a store front??? hhhmmmmmm
Yes I have been dreaming lately of what my 1k sq ft store would look like!
It appears that it may be more than a dream and that I may wake up one day to find that Jacobs Creamery has its very own retail home! I am fairly certain that I could run two creameries, ten farmers markets and a store all together :)
I am dreaming of imported cheeses to supplement my own and cannot stop my mind from spinning about the possibilities! Cheese classes and cheese buying trips and wine and cheese pairing events!
I am thinking of going to Europe and developing relationships with some other small artisan dairies and opening a store and selling them along with my own products! I know!!!!! What a fun idea!!!!!! I know !!!
Nothing is for sure yet I am still in the dreamy planning stage but I will alert you all when there is more than just the fast pace of my beating heart and tile floor to pick out :)
If you were wondering what on earth you were going to do this Sunday wonder no longer because the Hillsdale farmers market will be going from 10-2. In case that wasn't enough there are a few seats left in my cheese class at Sweetwares Sunday evening! We will have a cheese sampling (with some of my newest creations) and some of the finest picks out of the aging room, as well as a light dinner with the class :)
The class is 5-7 and you can call 503.546.3737 to reserve your seat.
Yours always even without a lactating Moose to milk (and hell yes I would have milked one)
Yours always dreaming of a store front,
Your very own,
Cheese Czarina!
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