Romanian Cheese Experience at Remote Farm in Transylvania
In June we spent a couple of days in Transylvania, when on a beautiful sunny day, with heady heat, we had a perfect Romanian cheese experience at a remote farm in Laslea commune. We...
Making Artisan Cheese in Charming Romanian Seaside Village
56-YO Ursache Gheorghe Living a Self – Sufficient Homesteading Life in Dobrogea Wanderers over the Romanian seaside here and there come across beautiful small villages with low-roofed cottages of grey stone, weather-worn, and fenced...
Romanian Cottage Cheese Doughnuts – Papanași
Packed with a lot of protein and essential nutrients, cow’s cheese – brânza de vaci – is used in many desserts. After making cheese from fresh cow’s milk, we will use the fresh cheese...
Making Cheese From Fresh Cow’s Milk
Making Cheese From Fresh Cow’s Milk In these days, it is surprisingly difficult to select healthy cheese. We nose around different types of cheese, some perhaps wrongly labeled as “organic”, or “traditional”, yet when...
Cheesemaking in Transylvania – Traditional Sheep Cheese Recipes
Cheesemaking at Romanian Sheepfold From Transylvania Fagaras Mountains As the sun slides below the rocky summits of Fagaras mountains, shepherds from Transylvania finish the evening milking. Milk buckets filled with foamy white liquid are...
Traditional Cheese Recipes from Romanian Villages of Bucovina
Traditional Cheese Recipes from Romanian Villages of Bucovina Each morning, afternoon and evening, Nicanor and his sons make a cheese of 26 lbs. After milking sheep by hand, the animals are taken out for grazing...
Milking Sheep by Hand in Traditional Sheepfold from Romanian Village
Shepherd Hand Milking Sheep in a Romanian Traditional Sheepfold – Stână Driving down the Romanian countryside, on the road from Gura Humorului to Solca, we wondered at this rustic sheepfold far away, on a...
Romanian Countryside Steeped in Tradition: Shepherd Tends Sheepfold the Old Way
Shepherding in Romanian Countryside Steeped in Tradition: A Traditional Way of Calling the Flock of Sheep No one knows the ancient songs of the trumpet better than a shepherd. Born in 1951, at a...
Cheese Making The Old Fashioned Way at Traditional Romanian Sheepfold
Traditional Cheese Making at Rustic Romanian Sheepfold From The Region of Bucovina Many sheepfolds in Romania continue to produce cheese in a traditional manner. The cheese making process is just input from various bacteria....
