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Cheese-mar Homes Tutorial: How to Make Cheddar Cheese
We’ve gone over the concept, the science, some basic practices. And now, with no further delay, we are going to make cheese. So strap yourself in. It’s going to be a wild ride. We could show you how to make some easy cheeses, like kefir or cream cheese, but we’re not going to do that
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How to Have the Best Halloween House on the Block
It gets harder and harder each year, but you can still remember what it was like to be a kid, right? And Halloween? Man, only Christmas was more exciting. The best trick-or-treat houses were the ones that made you feel scared, then welcome. A little creeped out, then re-assured — and overloaded with candy. Here
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Your Winter Home Preparedness Checklist
Winter is coming. Well, sort of. This is south Texas, after all, but that doesn’t mean we’re off the hook when it comes to preparing our homes for winter. To get there, follow these tips, and enjoy a warm, stress-free winter in a cozy home. Inspect Windows and Doors Look at all the weatherstripping and
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Cheese-mar Homes Tutorial: Sanitization in Cheese
Like any process that involves culturing or fermentation, sanitization is extremely important to the cheese-making process. All of your utensils, cookware and even your hands need to be as clean and bacteria-free as possible in order to render an appetizing final product. Having already covered the basics of cheese-making, milk selection, and the role of salt, we’re going
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Chesmar Homes Product Review: Expandable Garden Hoses
Occasionally in this space we’ll use and review a common household consumer product, so you don’t have to. Today, we’re talking about the oh-so-slick, as-seen-on-TV, magical auto-expanding garden hoses. You’ve seen the commercials. The Pitch That ad is for the Pocket Hose, which is the brand we purchased (though we went for the Pocket Hose Top
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Cheese-mar Homes Tutorial: The Role of Salt in Cheese
So far in this series we’ve discussed the overall concept of cheese, and we’ve tackled milk selection, and so you’re fairly well on your way to making a cheese of your own. But before we move on to recipes, we have another concept to go over. And that concept how salt works to flavor and preserve your
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Cheese-mar Homes Tutorial: How to Pick the Right Milk for Your Cheese
Earlier this week, we began our series on cheese-making with a basic overview of the materials you’ll need and the steps you’ll need to take to make to make some cheese. Today we’re going to talk about milk. The first thing you need to know, here, is that any milk will work. Cheese is milk, so if what you’re
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Introducing the Cheese-mar Homes Cheese-Making Series
Everybody is into some kind of artisan craftwork these days, it seems. Between the guys brewing beer in their garage, to their wives knitting sweaters on the couch, to that couple you know who restores old furniture, people like to do it themselves in 2015. What you don’t run across much is people who are making their
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Chesmar Homes Celebrates 10 Years!
Chesmar Homes Celebrates 10 Years! Chesmar Homes the dream, for Don Klein, started early in 2005 when he began planning out in earnest his own company. Klein had worked for national, publicly owned companies for many years and had a distinctively different vision for his new start-up. By mid-April of that year, company operations began
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Chesmar Cares: Preston’s Project
Bay View New Home Consultant, Jim Mauck is about as proud of his grandson Preston, as could be possible. Preston may be only seven years old but he has a passion to make a difference in people’s lives. He started his very own campaign to raise money through Habitat for Humanity to provide a home