Episode 3
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Bellwether Farms
Artisan Creamery

Family owned and operated, Bellwether Farms is located in Sonoma County, California, about an hour north of San Francisco, and a few miles from the Pacific Ocean. Their cheeses are used by chefs in many of the finest restaurants across the country, and are regularly featured in The New York Times, Martha Stewart, Sunset Magazine, and gourmet food publications everywhere. The Callahan family founded the farm in 1986 with dreams to turn it in to a sheep farm. To learn more about the Callahan family and their cheeses, visit bellwetherfarms.

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Relish Culinary Adventures


Based in Healdsburg, California, in the heart of the Sonoma County wine country, Relish Culinary Adventures offers cooking classes on a wide range of topics from wine country cuisine to ethnic specialties, DIY canning to children's cooking workshops, cheese making to wild mushroom foraging. Relish hosts activities that bring people together in the kitchen, such as private cooking parties and corporate team-building events. To learn more about Relish, visit relishculinary.com.

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New Year, New Gear

Alan Campbell reviews the Sony Super 35 Camera System

Overall I thought things looked good. I will be happier with my performance with the camera as time goes on. Outside of some rotating, slight exposure and color correction needed, I like the stuff. The camera is dynamite.

It was great to go back and spend the day just putzing around trying different things with the camera. It gave me a much better insight to how I can use it in a variety of situations. It works very well with the Canon lenses we have. I will give you the pros and cons of jumping on to this camera with little time to work with it. For now here is what I have.

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Recipes and more!

Ricotta Crostini

Liam and Diana serve up some of their ricotta on toasted crostini with a little bacon and honey. This recipe was inspired by Bon Appetit's "12 Ways To Cook With Ricotta Cheese". This is a great dish for parties and can be transformed to fit the season.

Ricotta Penne Pasta

Pasta and ricotta were meant to be enjoyed together! Enjoy this quick and easy recipe and taste how the heat from the pasta, slightly melts the whole milk ricotta to perfection.

Seasonal Veggies with Ricotta

The Callahans love to make this dish at home. Diana calls it "Thanksgiving In A Bowl", and was inspired by a recipe from Food 52. Try this dish at home using Bellwether Farms Ricotta.

Lemon Ricotta Pancakes

This is one of Liam and Diana's favorite recipes. Ricotta is a fantastic addition to breakfast foods. This lemon ricotta pancake recipe is light and fluffy and very trendy. Visit Bellwether farms for more recipes.

Blueberry Ricotta Cups

This blueberry ricotta cup recipe is similar to a cheescake without the crust. Dessert is Diana's favorite part of the meal and this recipe was inspired by www.southerninlaw.com's recipe. To add some richness, Liam likes to add a scoop of vanilla ice cream to finish it off.

Aged Cheeses

Not only does Bellwether Farms make incredible ricotta, but their aged cheeses are to die for as well! Aging cheese is all about controlled spoilage, fermenting those milk sugars to create variations in flavor. Those variations are affected by moisture, temperature, age time and more.

Making Cheese

Liam Callahan's hand washing philosophy is serious business and is an essential part step in the process of working with cheese. It allows Liam to work with the cheeses without gloves so that he can feel the firmness of the curds while keeping the product totally sanitized.

Production Company
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Shoot Blue Productions is a Sonoma County video production company providing award winning video and television production services for the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Since 2005, Shoot Blue Productions has grown to take on a wide array of video and television productions. Whether it is a television commercial, corporate video or a broadcast reality series, they provide production and post production services from start to finish to ensure the best quality product.

Crew
Cast and Crew

  1. Producer/Director: Steve Rustad

  2. Associate Producer/Unit Production Manager: Leslie Simmons

  3. Consulting Producer: Amy Vogler

  4. Director of Photography: Alan Campbell

  5. Additional Camera: Dan Shimer

  6. Gaffer/Key Grip: John Paussa

  7. Best Boy: Corey Sceales

  8. Grip: Jaime Delgado

  9. Camera Assistant/Set Photography: Jeff Maloney

  10. Production Assistant: Jenna Beavers

  11. Production Assistant: Eli Booker

  12. Audio Technician: Matt Bouler

  13. Music: Sheldon Bermont

  14. Makeup: Vanessa Colombo

  15. Food Stylist/Set Design: Joanna Badano

  16. Edited by: Leslie Simmons

  17. Animation by: Chris Vandershaaf

  18. Graphics by Valerie Valdivia


Production Stills
A sheep Garrett Martin in cheese aging room Shot of crew filming Vanessa Colombo doing hair and makeup
Joanna Badano cooking Shelves upon shelves of aging cheese bowls on table with milk jug digital clapboard with seven-segment display
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