Homemade Queso Blanco Cheese and Cheese Sauce

Queso Blanco – How to Make Mexican White Cheese. Fresh Mexican Same-Day Cheese.

Author: Whats4Chow

Recipe type: Cheese

Cuisine: Mexican

Prep time:  2 mins

Cook time:  30 mins

Total time:  32 mins

 

Queso Blanco is a fresh Mexican white cheese. The term fresh refers to the cheese not being aged. It can be eaten the same day it is made. The outstanding feature of Queso Blanco is that it does not melt when cooked, making it the ideal protein to add to soups, stews, stir-fries and even grills.

Ingredients

• 1 Gallon / 3.75lt Full cream cows or goats milk
• 60ml Cider vinegar (plus a little extra on the side)
• Salt to taste (non-iodated)

Instructions

1. Pour the milk into a large pot over medium low heat. Over a period of 20 to 30 minutes bring the milk up to a temperature of 83c or 180f stirring regularly.
2. Once at this temperature, hold the temperature here for 10 minutes by toggling the heat on and off as required.
3. Pour in the cider vinegar and stir continuously while the curds form. If the whey is not clear after a minute or so, add a little more vinegar, stirring continuously while you do this, until the whey is clear.
4. Remove the pot from the heat and pour the curds into a muslin lined colander in your sink. Allow the curds to drain briefly, then fold the edges of the muslin over the cheese.
5. Place and upturned side plate on top the cheese and weigh this down with about 5lb of weight.
6. Let the cheese press and drain for 3 hours.
7. Unwrap the cheese and trim the rough edge from the cheese. The trimmings can be used in any dish, so don’t discard them.
8. You will see that the cheese has a medium firm feel, and is remarkably similar in texture and taste to haloumi cheese.
9. If you’re not using the cheese immediately, salt both sides of the cheese and refrigerate wrapped in cling-wrap.
10. In our next episode we will use this queso blanco to make an amazing butter-fried Queso Blanco cheese dish.
11. Makes 600-800g of cheese

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Queso Blanco Sauce / Dip 

Author: Whats4Chow

Recipe type: Cheese

Cuisine: Mexican

Prep time:  5 mins

Total time:  5 mins

Serves: 4-8

 

Queso Blanco is an infinitely flexible ingredient. In this episode we make an alternative to the overplayed tartare sauce – queso blanco sauce makes a perfect dip for seafood, with a mild flavor that does not overpower the food it is served with.

Ingredients

• 200g Queso Blanco cheese
• 200ml Cultured Buttermilk
• 2 Pickled Jalepenos
• Salt to taste
• Dried red chilli flakes to garnish

Instructions

1. Dice the queso blanco into small pieces, chop the pickled jalepeno chillies, and measure out the cultured buttermilk. You will also want a teaspoon of red chilli flakes to garnish.
2. Place all of the ingredient except the chilli flakes into a jug. Using a stick blender, zap this until smooth and creamy.
3. Season the creamy sauce with salt to taste. Decant the dip to serving bowls, garnish each with a pinch of chilli flakes and serve immediately.

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Wedding Punch
Very simple, very forgiving, always a favorite.
 

1 64-ounce bottle white grape juice
1 64-ounce bottle unsweetened pineapple juice
2 liters (@ 2 quarts) grapefruit soda or ginger ale
Chill all the ingredients thoroughly. Combine the fruit juices in a punch bowl. Pour in the grapefruit soda or ginger ale and stir gently. Add an ice ring, if desired.
Makes about 48 servings. For a 3-hour party or reception, your guests will typically drink 3 to 5 4-ounce servings of punch. Taking the middle road, 4 servings each, this recipe serves 12.
For 50 guests:
Purchase 4 bottles white grape juice, 4 bottles of pineapple juice and 8 liters of ginger ale or grapefruit soda

For 100 guests:
Use 8 bottles white grape juice, 8 bottles of pineapple juice, and 16 liters (about 4 1/4 gallons or 17 quarts) ginger ale or grapefruit soda.


Option: Champagne Wedding Punch
Substitute 2 750-ml bottles of champagne or sparkling wine for the soda pop and use sweetened pineapple juice. Prepare as above and serve immediately.
(Anything bubbly should always be added just before serving so that it does not go flat.)
Makes about 45 servings; serves 10 guests or more.



How to Make
Ice Molds for Punch Bowls
Ice molds for punch bowls are both eye-catching and practical. And easy to make, too, with things you have around the house. Add whole strawberries, cranberries, mint leaves, citrus slices with cherries on top, etc., to an ordinary mold and it becomes decorative and very classy, indeed.

First, find a mold 

You can buy a variety of ice molds in many shapes... hearts, squares, numbers, shells, stars, even dentures. (Can't wait to try that one.) But if you don't have one, improvise. Small bowls and plastic storage containers make excellent molds.
A large muffin tin is perfect for corralling citrus slices; float 3 to 5 of these medium-size molds instead of one large one, and have spares, too. Or turn your small canister lid over and see what interesting possibilities arise. For ice ring molds, bundt pans, Jell-o molds or ring-shaped cake pans are perfect. Just fill and freeze.
Searching your kitchen for ice mold ideas is as fun as making them. Just make sure to use something that will not break when the liquid in them freezes and expands.

Choose a liquid.

If you are freezing water use only distilled water, for the sake of clarity. But using fruit juice, tea or a carbonated soft drink in your ice mold will add flavor as it melts, not dilute the punch. You can even pre-make some of the punch, minus any alcohol, and use that. Alcohol does not freeze well. 

Adding goodies to make decorative ice molds for punch.

A plain (but practical) ice mold can be turned into a work of art by adding fruit, leaves and/or edible flowers. Here's how:
Pour 1/2 to 1 inch of liquid into the bottom of your mold. Arrange your chosen goodies in the liquid, cover with plastic wrap, and freeze. Remember that the mold will be inverted so if you want cherries on top, for instance, place them on the bottom.
Remove the mold from the freezer, add more liquid to cover well, and freeze again. Allow several hours for the process.
When ready, run warm water over the bottom of the mold to unseat your creation. Invert and float the mold in the punch bowl.

See how an ice ring mold is made:

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Ketogenic Diet a Key to Recovery for Cancer

Starving Cancer:

Ketogenic Diet a Key to Recovery

A new cancer treatment that is free has virtually no side effects and can be used in conjunction with other cancer treatments. It involves starving cancer cells of the fuel they the love.

The ketogenic diet is a high-natural fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet that in medicine is used primarily to treat difficult-to-control (refractory) epilepsy in children. The diet forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates. Normally, the carbohydrates contained in food are converted into glucose, which is then transported around the body and is particularly important in fuelling brain function. However, if there is very little carbohydrate in the diet, the liver converts fat into fatty acids and ketone bodies. The ketone bodies pass into the brain and replace glucose as an energy source. An elevated level of ketone bodies in the blood, a state known as ketosis, leads to a reduction in the frequency of epileptic seizures.

Many people are frustrated with today's cancer treatments. They are expensive, painful and often just don't work. However, there is a new cancer treatment that is free, has virtually no side effects, and can be used in conjunction with other cancer treatments.

It involves cutting out carbohydrates, beginning with the worst carb of all - sugar.

 

Killing Cancer

Dr. Fred Hatfield is an impressive guy: a power-lifting champion, author of dozens of books, a millionaire businessman with a beautiful wife. But he'll tell you his greatest accomplishment is killing his cancer just in the nick of time.

"The doctors gave me three months to live because of widespread metastatic cancer in my skeletal structure," he recalled. "Three months, three different doctors told me that same thing."

His wife Gloria remembers it well.

"It's a horrible, horrible feeling to have someone tell you that the person you love only has three months to live and you're not going to be with him any more," she said.

While Hatfield was preparing to die, he heard about an anti-cancer diet, also known as metabolic therapy. With nothing to lose, he gave it a try and was shocked when it actually worked.

"The cancer was gone!" he exclaimed. "Completely. To this day there's no trace of it. And it's been over a year."

 

Starving Bad Cells

Although it wasn't easy, Hatfield stopped eating carbohydrates, which turn into glucose inside your body. Cancer cells love glucose and need it so badly, that if you stop giving it to them, they die.

"It just absolutely amazes me that medical science is just now finding this out," he said.

Hatfield's cancer recovery, however, was not a surprise to Dr. Dominic D'Agostino, who researches metabolic therapy. When he and his team of scientists at the University of South Florida removed carbohydrates from the diets of lab mice, the mice survived highly aggressive metastatic cancer even better than when they were treated with chemotherapy.

"We have dramatically increased survival with metabolic therapy," he said. "So we think it's important to get this information out."

It's not just lab mice. Dr. D'Agostino has also seen similar success in people - lots of them.

"I've been in correspondence with a number of people," he said. "At least a dozen over the last year-and-a-half to two years, and all of them are still alive, despite the odds. So this is very encouraging."

 

The Ketogenic Diet

All cells, including cancer cells, are fueled by glucose. But if you deprive them of glucose, they switch to the alternate fuel, ketone bodies.

Except cancer cells. A defect prevents them from making the switch to using ketone bodies as fuel and therefore, cancer cells can only survive on glucose. All other cells can use either glucose or ketone bodies.

"Your normal cells have the metabolic flexibility to adapt from using glucose to using ketone bodies. But cancer cells lack this metabolic flexibility. So we can exploit that," Dr. D'Agostino explained.

People like Hatfield, who want to deprive their cells of glucose and fuel them with ketone bodies instead, eat what's known as a ketogenic diet. It consists of almost zero carbohydrates, but lots of natural proteins and fats.

Gloria said the food on the ketogenic diet is in every grocery store and is pretty easy to prepare.

"You can go online and there's cook books," she said, "It's clean eating. Just very clean eating, none of the sugars, the salts, the trash food."

"Natural" proteins are ones that are in their original form. On the other hand, "processed" meats, like cold cuts and hot dogs, are off-limits because often carbohydrates have been added to them.

Similarly, "natural" fats are whole foods, like olive oil, avocados, and nuts. Stay away from "trans" fats, such as shortening or margarine, any oil that is hydrogenated. Trans fats are man-made.

Safe & Healthy

Sometimes people are afraid to try the ketogenic diet because they think eating fat like this is bad for your heart. But more doctors say as long as it's natural, fat is good for you, even saturated fat like coconut oil and butter.

"Is cholesterol the major cause of heart disease?" cardiologist Dr. Stephen Sinatra asked. "Absolutely not."

In his book, The Great Cholesterol Myth, Dr. Sinatra said the real cause of heart disease is inflammation, which comes from eating too many carbohydrates.

"We need to coach our patients and empower our patients about the dangers of sugar," he said. "Unfortunately, they're not hearing that. They're hearing the converse, the dangers of fat. Fat is healthy for you, as long as you avoid trans fats."

So by cutting back on carbohydrates and eating natural fats and proteins, you could improve your heart health and even wipe out cancer.

 

Additional Information:

The ketogenic diet has also proven successful in treating epilepsy. For more information, go to The Charlie Foundation.

 

For additional resources and recipes for delicious ketogenic diet foods, such as breads and cupcakes with all natural ingredients, check out the following resources:

• 500 Low-Carb Recipes: 500 Recipes from Snacks to Dessert, That the Whole Family Will Love
• The Cantin Ketogenic Diet: For Cancer, Type I Diabetes & Other Ailments
• RSG1 Foundation
• Solace Nutrition
• Dietary Therapies LLC - Miriam Kalamian, ketogenic diet consultant for cancer
• KetoNutrition - Information, resources and supplies for metabolic management of cancer.
• KetoTherapeutics - a ketogenic diet support website.

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