ShowMeTheCurry.com offers this video (via YouTube) showing how to make paneer, a fresh Indian-style cheese that’s much like ricotta. It’s easy! For a cloth, we use “flour sack cloth” that they sell at the local 99 Cent store.
They also suggest using the leftover whey as a vegetarian stock instead of chicken or beef. We haven’t tried that yet, but we do use it for making bread.
I just made a recipe for spinach and paneer from Deborah Madison’s book “this can’t be tofu”, which substitutes tofu for paneer. It was okay, but I thought it would be much better with the real thing. But where to get it? Aha! I can make paneer at home! Thanks!