Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Cheese Please!!

We took a quick jaunt out to Yamada Bokujo on Monday to learn how to make string cheese!

Of course, the babes' favorite part of the trip is the train ride...

Yamada san used his pre-made green tea mozzarella that he created as a base for the string cheese. In Japan, a variety of green tea is called "matcha", so they coined the term "matcharella"!!!

They began by cubing up the fresh mozzarella curd. Next, a hot salt water was added to the curd...

Sol hung out with Nao Yamada...

And Sophia got to lounge with Rinko Yamada...

Ray took the spatulas and began smashing the melting curd until a gooey mass was formed...

...the mass was then stretched many times (to create the "stringy" feature), and laid in ice water...

DELICIOUS! 100% fresh string cheese and mozzarella!!


2 comments:

Always Angie said...

Looks like so much fun. Wish we could have joined you...maybe next time. :-)

jenmay said...

LOOOOVE the train video.... So precious! They remind me of Sammy sticking his head out the car window. :) ha! Cant wait to have you all back. XOXOXo