Thanks guys! Making cheese isn't all that hard, just takes time. To make blue cheese, you just add a bit of blue mould from a blue that you already like, and it will grow in your new cheese. You can make a really simple cheese, called "Quark", by just putting 4 tbls of cultured buttermilk in 10 litres of milk, warm it to about 30 C, add a drop of rennet, and let it sit overnight. It will thicken and you'll get this gluggy stuff like yogurt, and then just pour it into a cheesecloth bag, hang and drain for a couple hours. This won't be a hard cheese, and you couldn't make a blue version of it, but it is very tasty and is good for cheesecake! You can strain yogurt and get cheese too. Hard cheese is, more or less, a similar idea but you add more rennet (which is what makes the milk form a curd), and you cut, stir, add salt, and press it in a mold (ok, a bit more details would be needed, but that's the basic idea).

- Jeff