Showing posts with label organic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label organic. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Chleb Hruby i sery z Grzybowa

A few weekends ago we took the chance to visit Chleb Hruby i sery z Grzybowa, with some friends who have known the owners Ewa the Educator and Peter the Baker, Cheesemaker and Stork Saver for some time.

The business is a small multifunction farm which works in a really inspiring way. Peter is from Switzerland but moved to Poland many years ago and started farming here. When moved to his current site the magic started to happen and he became more entwined with the local community. Now he employs locals to help him in the bakery, cheesery and to teach school children about the environment and their business.

Now they are baking some great rye breads along with making their delicious goats, goats and cows, and plain cows milk cheeses. If you can't get out to Grzybów then you can buy their bread all over Warsaw like here. Or go along to the Biobazar on Wednesdays to get your fill of both bread and cheese. I would suggest you won't be disappointed.

The recently saved stork.


Into the cheesery

Peter discussing the processes.


A freshly made cheese

The aging rack.




Moulds not molds.

Cheese weights

Really beautiful packaging.

My favourite, the goat's cheese

The area was once Prussian so it has a history of German influence, and this is a restored piece given to them by locals.

The old cheese cellar.

The Swedish WWOOF boys taking the goats out to pasture.


Gratuitous cat shot


A converted barn?


The mill










How can you not love goats?!

Then it came to buying some cheese.

Time to get that delicious goaty goodness home.
Special thanks to Kit and Marcin for driving us poor carless folk to the rural Mazowsze region to experience this wonderful place, and also thanks to Ewa and Peter for looking after us with breakfast and teaching us about the world that is cheese, goats and bread.

Saturday, April 19, 2014

Cider Days With Michał

DJ Wysocki aka Michał is a guru of many things and was a great young lad when I mentioned making some cider, in that he said he could bring me some organic chemical free apples from the wild East where his family has a small holding. So I got organised in the ol' kitchen and cleaned all surfaces getting it all ready so that we could get the party started.

demijohn fashion parade

Fill the bath with apples and soak them giving them a little scrub if need be.

And start the juicing

working it through some muslin

but wait there is more

Michał getting a run on the juicer

mixing up the duties

choppy choppy

and after filtering into a demijohn

keep working on those apples remaining

and juice it

this is all the waste from our fabulous Hurom juicer

unveiling the last batch

squeezing out the left overs.

and finishing with two demijohns and a fermenting bucket. After a good 2 hours.