Fall 2011

Off the Beaten Path Studio Tour, This Month!

 We are looking forward to this year's studio tour! October 28-30. Every year, the last full weekend in October, we invite everyone out to Dry Creek for an open house. We showcase our art, our craft process, and spend the weekend enjoying company and selling our work.

 This year our stop will feature the work of Rob Harvey, who is also the owner of the farm and the builder of the wood kiln.Click here to see a blog featuring Rob's kiln and Rob's work.

 Brenda Heim and Doug Hayes will join us for the first time Click here to see Doug's website. Then click here to see Brenda's work.

Of course anytime you want to see my work, check out http://www.amypotter.com/.

There are a lot of other stops on the tour as well, so Click here to check out the studio tour website.

Jenn Sherwood's powder room sink, in Dekalb County Tennessee. Greg Overby made the beautiful walnut cabinet, I made and installed the sink and backsplash.

woman reclining with batik blanket

Getting ready for my show with Mom. There is an artist's reception on August 18th.Yay!

Paula and Mark's sink, installed!

Three ladies washing their hair, with socks on because its COLD!!!

cone 6 electric fired tiles

Making Yogurt Cheese

We were very lucky last Thursday to have a delivery of fresh, raw Jersey cow's milk delivered to our neighborhood. I had 4 gallons of it, and was looking for a way to use it. I ran across a cheesecake recipe in a magazine, and was inspired.

I had already made the yogurt, so I just needed to strain it. Looking around my kitchen for somewhere to hang my cheesecloth, I started thinking about the inevitable bugs. We are processing tomatoes/other garden produce like crazy, so there is bugs in my kitchen for sure. It is just part of summer, but not my favorite part.

So here was my solution, and another use for my fermentation crocks, producing a cheese that is just like cream cheese in consistency, but with a yogurt flavor. It worked in the cheesecake recipe just perfectly too. The whey, if used as the liquid in bread dough, makes the softest, sweetest, fluffiest bread.

This towel over the whole thing really effectively kept all bugs out of the cheese.

The yogurt is poured into the cheesecloth "hammock"

whey filters through, the curds are trapped in the cloth hammock

lid holds cheesecloth hammock in place, keeps out bugs

tucked up the cloth, it wicks the moisture and I HATE bugs...