You might come home to contraptions that look like this:

I was working late last night, and while I was out, Stephanie started making ricotta salata (a pressed, salted, and dried variety of ricotta cheese). Apparently it’s going to age in our refrigerator for 2 weeks.

Or you might come home to chevre draining in the oven:

We bought 4 quarts of goat’s milk from Trader Joe’s and 4 chevre molds at The Beverage People in Santa Rosa on Saturday and right now our apartment smells like a cross between really tangy yogurt and cream cheese.