RICOTTA, a very easy to do recipe...

As my grandma used to say ..."fatto in casa" , which means, homemade...yes...this is a very easy to follow recipe, and the results are awesome!!
Would you ever imagine to be able to "make" ricotta, homemade? well...get yourself an apron, roll up your sleeves and ...hands on job...

It calls for just 4 ingredients:

4 Cups whole milk
1 cup cream
1 1/2 tsp. salt, you can use kosher salt, that's my favorite...but if you don't like it, just salt...
2 Tbsp. lemon juice.

Off course, when we say tsp. we understand is a tea spoon, those little ones we use for ...tea, coffee, etc...and when we say Tbsp. we mean table spoon, those for soup, you know?

Ricotta ( Italian for recooked) calls for a different recipe, that in reality, starts after the whey is reheated, "recooked", but in this case, we will make it!!!

Put all the ingredients in a bowl, to the fire, wait until it's boiling, take out of the flame, let it rest...
You will start notice the curds are separating from the ...ricotta, don't stir them, let them reproduce, it's like you are witnessing the milk and the cream break, yes, that's because you used the acid lemon...
when you take the mix from the stove, get a colander, put cheese cloth on it, and pour the mix over, wait until it's separate from the curds, the cheesy creamy paste you obtained, it's your homemade ricotta..isn't it easy?

Remember, don't stir...just wait until the "whey" fluid separates from the creamy mixture...