Homemade Mac & Cheese from Homemade Goat Colby Cheese!

[@barbbonam]

I'm a newbie to your channel and I just have to say that "I like you, I really like you",,,,LOL...You are funny without trying to be, and you're REAL...that's what keeps me hangin' around. I stumbled across your channel and just watched a few, and I was hooked. Your living the life I always wanted to live. Your goats are so adorable and you have a beautiful family. Hope I didn't sound too "schmaltzy", but I just wanted to let you know that I enjoy your videos!

[@BlueCactusDairyGoats]

Well thank you!!

[@cindyboard7816]

My mouth was watering through the entire video, and I had just finished a Thanksgiving feast!!!! Definitely a recipe I will have to try! I am also a fan of the Anaheim peppers! Great pepper flavor and just the right amount of heat!!! WISHING Y'ALL A SAFE & HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

[@BlueCactusDairyGoats]

We had a lovely Thanksgiving and hope yours was as well!!

[@samanthamartinez166]

Oh my Cheese! That looks delicious! Thank you for another great video!

[@Bass2010]

Happy Thanksgiving and thank you for all the great videos this year

[@BlueCactusDairyGoats]

Happy Thanksgiving to to guys!!!

[@justme-uw6bz]

Gosh that looked good. I loved the camera boys comment when he tastes it, that was so cute.

[@BlueCactusDairyGoats]

He's a good boy :)

[@mamaAimEC]

This is wonderful & inspiring! I have never tried making hard cheese but have always wanted too! Can you do a hard cheese 101? Or even a series? I also wonder about your cheese cave. We don't have great food storage in our home. We use every little nook & cranny to store our canned foods. How difficult do you think it would be to do in small batches? For some reason watching you had been the most inspiring to think this is something I could actually do.

[@southerngrits920]

We always have Mac and cheese for thanksgiving and Christmas. Born and raised on a farm in SC my 94 mama and 92 daddy did not have pasta. As my sibs know if mama had to make a sauce, we would never ever have Mac and cheese. Mama layers Mac and cheese then into milk an egg and little mustard. She pours over Mac and cheese. It is in demand at our house.

[@shawnleeriley2726]

it's good to see you cook as well as raise goats.

[@rosaloving3378]

Love your videos and your goats! You make everything look so easy to do. I don’t have a homestead as I live in a city, but I do have 3 dogs and 3 large parrots, and a large container veg garden. I compose and did vermicomposting until recently. You have a great personality. I used to show dogs in obedience.

[@MillaRaeDeshibeau]

Happy Thanksgiving 🍁🍽🦃 from our Ohana (family) to yours!! Love the cheese 🧀 and your Mac & cheese looks amazing!! Garlic, onion, peppers, and the ham just looks good by itself 😮. Enjoy your family gathering!!🤗🙏🏽❤️

[@BlueCactusDairyGoats]

Thank you gurl!! Happy Thanksgiving!!

[@MillaRaeDeshibeau]

Blue Cactus Dairy Goats 🦃🍽🍁🤗🙏🏽❤️ you’re welcome!!

[@embella2380]

I am making my way through your videos and I love love love all of them!! Your recipe looks amazing and I feel like I always learn so much from everything I see you doing. Much love from a girl in California :)

[@HansenNeverDoneFarms]

Crystal!! That looks wonderful!! Hubs sat down and watched this with me, he is all in for cheese making! The press u purchased is no longer available thru your link, suggestions on another? Kidding starts here mid January, cheese making shortly there after lol.. when u have time a video on soap making would be much appreciated! Love your videos! You are my go to everything goat guru!

[@HansenNeverDoneFarms]

Oh and Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

[@BlueCactusDairyGoats]

Hey there!! This was the best Mac and Cheese ever with the goat cheese!! I will have to check those links! Here is another amzn.to/2R24eJQ let me know if it works. Can't wait for you to start making cheese!! Happy Thanksgiving! P.S... we just might have a soap video coming out soon!! ;)

[@audreyabdo7719]

Dang Crystal that cheese looks so delicious to me. If you want to send me half I will be most happy to enjoy this delicious looking 🧀. I made homemade Mac and Cheese and I had to make extra for my Granddaughter. Her and her father will enjoy the fruits of my labor. Wishing you and your family from me and my family we say Happy Thanksgiving and be thankful and blessed for everyday and everything. I’m sitting here watching you make this and I’m getting hungry again, it looks so good. Take care, wonderful family.🙏🤟👍❤️🐐🍽🌹🦃🍗🥬🧀🍁🇺🇸

[@marydodd1513]

Love your show. Have enjoyed it so much. Especially the goats.

[@poodleladylady5686]

I have been watching your older videos of you making and waxing cheese. Been loving these videos. I do have a question. Now that you are making soap, Do you still make cheese?

[@wendywobbles1]

😂😂Agreed on the sound 🔊😝😁😁 Well done Crystal 👌👍

[@BlueCactusDairyGoats]

Lol! Worst sound ever!

[@deborahjaniak7531]

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃

[@BlueCactusDairyGoats]

Happy Thanksgiving!

[@theonlyquilt]

Happy Thanksgiving

[@BlueCactusDairyGoats]

Happy Thanksgiving!

[@janetmcdonald9340]

He is such a great kid!!

[@LilMisFitToo]

The cheese and the Mac & cheese look sooo yummy! I always have a hard time with the sauce -you make it look so easy. My kids were never turkey fans so I used to make either chicken enchiladas or lasagna for Thanksgiving dinner. Hope your Thanksgiving time with family was nice. Thanks for sharing! Love your videos!

[@BlueCactusDairyGoats]

Chicken enchaladas and lasagna are also very delicious! Hope you family time was awesome too!!

[@christinaoklaohio7926]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOUR FAMILY.........I am new to your channel and I just love watching you. I been doing a lot of catching up and have a lot more to do. I have fallen in love . Thank you for sharing ....I feel like I know you already. Hope you know me to lol. God bless.🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃❤️❤️❤️

[@BlueCactusDairyGoats]

Thank you for watching and Happy Thanksgiving!!

[@rennells]

Dean says Mac and cheese are totally normal for holiday meals. Lol

[@rennells]

Congratulations on the cheese

[@BlueCactusDairyGoats]

Lol!

[@belindaryder7765]

Save some for me, I'll be right over!

[@HomsteadingThePioneerWay]

Great looking cheese, the longer it ages the sharper and dryer it will be, love , love, love sharp cheeses even extra sharp, we have one also that wants mac n cheese lol good stuff anytime, Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

[@BlueCactusDairyGoats]

I love that sharp cheese too!!

[@IttyBitty1973]

When my Aunt and I make baked macaroni and cheese we never make a sauce we lay our the noodles and cheese together with a little milk in the bottom for moisture. She uses American and mozzarella and I like to use a different varietys of cheese one I do love is asiago. 🦃🐖🦃🐖

[@Calla-sl8gd]

Hi Crystal! Good video, as always. Well, it's not my mac and cheese ... I guess I'm a purist cuz I never thought about putting anything in it except ... well, mac and cheese. Honestly, I couldn't have yours cuz of the peppers. But it looks amazing ... I can see why Alexa requested it. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving with your family ... and if you Black Friday, be safe out there. Cheers! ps: Soapmaking?

[@BlueCactusDairyGoats]

Oh I love to play around with mac and cheese! We had a great time with family and hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving as well. Also, I have never, and will never, go black Friday shopping! No thank you! Lol. Soap video coming very soon ;)

[@norcaligirl8579]

I'm a Mac n cheese purist too. I do like to make it with pepper jack sometimes tho. This looks yummy and that cheese looks great. Can only imagine how much better it would be after aging for 6 mos. I don't have goats yet, planning to get in the spring. I can't wait to try my hand at cheese making.

[@caninedrill_instructor5861]

Ms. Crystal, For a Bechemel, or Mornay ( Basically a bechamel with cheese added ) sauce, 1 tablespoon of butter to one tablespoon of flour and one cup of milk per tablespoon of flour. For example your Mornay sauce used a stick of butter. A stick of butter is usually 8 tablespoons. So eight tablespoons of flour and eight cups of milk. Then add cheese to your taste.

[@BlueCactusDairyGoats]

Lol. When I started cooking I followed to the T.. Now i dont like to measure so just wing it! Not for cheese making though;)

[@janetlambert371]

Woman is there anything you don’t know how to do? You are awesome 🤩

[@JessicaSmith-oh8dn]

I absolutely love your videos! I hope you guys are doing well during the corona virus scare. Things are really crazy. I happen to be on forced quarantine because of an immunodeficiency, so I'm watching all your videos. I just love the baby goats and all your dams. I think I'm finally learning all the names. Just a thought for you guys, goats milk soap is a huge seller. I'd buy from you guys and so would my friends. I have a lot of people who would be interested in homemade goats milk soap. I don't know if you're interested in selling, but I know people are interested in buying. Soap is far easier to make and sell then cheese (especially across state lines). However, if you were interested in selling your cheese, I would love to buy it! Have you ever made Gouda? Can you make gouda with goats milk? I buy fresh smoked gouda from a small cow dairy right now. I love goats milk cheese though. Anyway, just thought I'd say hi and finally comment. You guys are really great! I'd love to have goats, but as I said, my life is a bit complicated. It's really wonderful to watch you though. Thanks for the videos!

[@mcloud98mc]

How similar tasting is the goats version of Colby to the Colby you buy at a store made from cow milk? Is it similar but slightly different? Or drastically different, and in what way?

[@JohnsonFamilyFarmstead]

😋 yum

[@sandrathomas2145]

Are your two younger children twins? They are so cute. I loved you mac and cheese except the ham. I am a vegetarian so no ham for me lol. Everything else would work. I love your channel so much and those goats are so amazing.

[@travisholbert2791]

Love you guys ❤️🇧🇸

[@BlueCactusDairyGoats]

🤗

[@namotenashi]

Mouth watering😋

[@twistedoakhomesteadtwisted404]

Yum

[@jeannepotts45]

Omg it looks so yummy. Wish you could make me some.

[@jjwally3532]

Me before I love goats(you crazy goat lady) Me now(I love you)

[@BlueCactusDairyGoats]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jjwally3532]

O my goodness you actually responded to my comment I love goat to and l have 4 goats 3 does 1 buck

[@Alicia.Marie.13]

I made mac and cheese for Thanksgiving. Though sadly I didn't get to use homemade cheese. Maybe next year!

[@BlueCactusDairyGoats]

I bet it was still delicious

[@tysonmillsom650]

yumm

[@milabulic]

I have to ask...does it get that 'goaty' taste? With all the goat cheese I make, I find that, for the most part, I can only eat it the first few days before it takes on that disgusting flavor and becomes dog treats.

[@bree-anrueda-camargo7849]

#pepper

[@thesupermom1975]

That sauce is called a bechemel.

[@beasty909]

mac & cheese.....isnt that what Chandler Bing ate for his Thanksgiving one time? meh, if not, i know i do :) xxx

[@therealoddballz7114]

Looks amazing. Btw I'm closing on about 85acres of land I want to turn into a farm would you and your husband be open to doing some consultaning, we never had farm. But want to grow and raise Animals we pay for travel and lodge. Hoping to close in the next few weeks.

[@christineramirez6673]

First one here yessssss

[@BlueCactusDairyGoats]

😁

[@vermontmom4232]

I thought your name was spelled without a h....

[@ravenbrown74]

That is one of the worst sounds 😂😂😂

[@elktheindianspotteddeer1331]

my family always makes homemade baked Mac and cheese for Thanksgiving since everyone loves it and no one likes green bean casserole so we don't make it

[@BlueCactusDairyGoats]

So funny! We have never had mac and cheese as a staple for Thanksgiving but seems so fitting. It was a big hit! Turns out many families do! May have to be side dish moving forward!