Around Christmas, our local semi-gourmet grocery got a selection of flavored baked ricotta cheeses. My son and wife both loved the chocolate ricotta. Alas, it was a seasonal thing, and by the end of January, it was all gone.

As my four-year-old son is a bit of a cheese fanatic anyway and I want to get him excited about cooking, I decided that we'd try to make cheese today. I'd read that it was really easy to make ricotta at home, and my research bore that out. The recipe is basically...

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