Say Cheese!

The other day I was looking for something fun to do with a 4 year old, and I came across a recipe to make your own cottage cheese. Now there's something different. Only thing is, you need sour milk. When was the last time we had sour milk in the house? Well, lucky (?) enough for me, we just happened to find some in the fridge this morning, a split second before it got poured onto breakfast. Ta-da! Ask and ye shall receive.
According to the recipe I have, you just need to slowly heat the sour milk until a liquid (called whey) forms on the top, and then you pour it off to get your "curds". Go ahead and say it. Miss Muffat. There.
I found out later that you need to start off with not just sour milk, you need down-right disgusting, curdled, solid rotten milk. Ghee-ross. Since I had already begun heating my only-a-little-gross sour milk, I continued on and learned the following:

I can make Ricotta cheese! And it's not bad. I just simmered it for about an hour, and little white curds started to appear. I poured the whole thing into a colander lined with cheese cloth (now I know why it's called that) , added salt, squeezed it a few times, and voila! I have something that looks and tastes exactly like Ricotta. It looks just like this picture.

So I'm thinking tomorrow night I might make lasagne for dinner. I also think I might start getting in to making other kinds of cheese.