Monterey Jack
Here is final product
Cut and ready to eat

Made: November 18, 2012 from three gallons of Goat's Milk.
Ready to Eat: January 18, 2012

Monterey Jack is an American semi-hard cheese usually made using cow's milk.

My Monterey Jack has dried Shiitake mushrooms inside the cheese wheel. We actually grew the Shiitake mushrooms that I used.

Here is the cheese wheel right after being made

Shiitake mushrooms are native to Japan and they are a regular feature of many Asian cuisines including Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean and Thai.

The Shiitake mushrooms that we grew are genus, "Lentinula", species "edodes".


Monterey Jack cheese was first produced by David Jacks. David Jack started his career at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn New York. Yes, the same place where Joan went to Fort Hamilton High School.

Click Here to learn how Monterey Jack Cheese came to be named after David Jack from Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn New York

This shows the cheese after it has been coated with wax

The wax is removed after the cheese has been aged and it is ready to eat

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