Slow down, make cheese with Kristen Allan

Sunday 18th October 2020 3.30-6.30pm
Idler’s Hill, North Narrabeen just 40 mins north of central Sydney

A special workshop guided by Kristen Allan
Learn how to make labneh, cultured butter, ghee & yoghurt

Followed by a vegetarian sunset supper overlooking Narrabeen lake
Made with the dairy goodness from the workshop by Tara D’cruz-Noble

Kristen & I met years ago and always talked about collaborating. I like that we’ve both found yoga through practice and teaching. We also have the shared love of food as a thing of nurture. Kristen has been teaching how to make your own dairy goods for years, Broadsheet wrote this story a while back and you can see more press here. Slowing down and making things from scratch really is such a simple but forgotten pleasure. And with just a few ingredients, you can create a collection of kitchen staples, allowing you to be in control of what you put in your food (and mouth!) and reducing the amount of waste in your kitchen.

In this hands-on workshop Kristen will show you how to make crème fraiche which you will slowly churn into cultured butter then you'll learn how to turn butter into a nutty flavoured ghee that will have you frying & roasting everything with ghee glee.

Kristen will show you all the tricks to making a luscious, thick & creamy yoghurt without the additives or nasty thickeners and finally you'll hang yoghurt to make labneh. We’ll also discuss milk kefir, a versatile and powerful ferment with a myriad of uses and health benefits.

Consider this workshop as your guide to the essentials of a cheese larder.

There’ll be plenty of tasters of everything we make in the workshop and we'll also cover: where to source the best local ingredients, the many uses for the leftover whey & buttermilk and lots & lots of recipe suggestions.

You’ll take home recipes, kefir grains, yoghurt, labneh, cultured butter, ghee plus you will gather a wealth of knowledge about making, maintaining and including your own fermented products at home.

Workshop open to 10 guests. Plenty of space with an open air workshop area and dining space on the deck. Please bring your own apron plus storage tubs/jars to take your dairy goods home :)

Address will be sent a few days prior to event.