Celebrate National Dairy Month with Minerva #contest #ad @churnitup

Minerva Dairy Hosts “Get Buttered Up” Campaign, Delivers Weekly Affirmations and Serves Local Food Pantry

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I wanted to pass along this cool contest going on at the Minerva Dairy website. I received no compensation for posting this information.

MINERVA, OH (May 31, 2016) – Minerva Dairy, America’s oldest family-owned cheese and butter dairy, is celebrating National Dairy Month with a “Get Buttered Up” campaign that aims to inspire and enlighten. With a full year of weekly affirmations meant to “butter you up,” Minerva Dairy will share positive and inspirational messages with consumers who sign up via email. Upon signing up, they will also have the opportunity to win a Minerva Dairy prize pack complete with a robust supply of product, cookware courtesy of Swiss Diamond and a cash prize of $250. Minerva Dairy will also “butter up” the company’s local food pantry with a generous contribution. Participants can receive weekly affirmations and enter to win by visiting Minerva Dairy online during the month of June.
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The “Get Buttered Up” campaign, hosted during National Dairy Month in June, is the ideal opportunity to celebrate Minerva Dairy as a fifth generation-owned dairy while offering consumers 52 weeks of positive affirmations and a friendly competition that ultimately benefits the Minerva community. Once they sign up for the weekly affirmations, consumers will be entered to win the grand prize. Awarded to one consumer chosen at random at the conclusion of National Dairy Month on June 30, it will include one $250 gift card and a robust supply of Minerva Dairy’s signature Amish Roll Butter plus a collection of premium Swiss Diamond cookware.

Five additional gift packages, featuring Minerva Dairy product and Minerva Dairy swag, will be distributed among the runner-ups. To further support the community, Minerva Dairy will also donate their Amish Roll Butter to Minerva’s local food bank.

“National Dairy Month reminds us to celebrate the dairy industry and the part we play in it as a sustainable, responsibly sourced dairy,” shares Adam Mueller, CEO at Minerva Dairy and fifth generation family member.

“Minerva Dairy has always been invested in the communities we serve. By hosting this year’s “Get Buttered Up” campaign in honor of National Dairy Month, we are proud to be able to give back to consumers in a small way through our weekly affirmations but also in a large way by supporting our local food pantry at the completion of the campaign in the best way we know how: donating our authentic 84% butterfat Amish Roll Butter in the hopes that it will nourish local families as much as it has our own.”

Each product produced at Minerva Dairy is defined by attention to detail. From the ingredients to the production process and from the taste to the texture, supreme quality sets the fifth generation-run company apart. Honoring the time-tested process that gives Amish Roll Butter its rich flavor and supreme quality, each product boasts qualities that define excellence for Minerva Dairy. The company features small-batch churned, rBST free, antibiotic-free, vegetarian and gluten free butter with 84% butterfat, a standard that set its Amish Roll Butter apart from commodity butter. The Amish Roll Butter reflects the company’s passion for bringing consumers the very best dairy available from healthy, grass-fed, pasture-raised cows.

About Minerva Dairy

Minerva Dairy is America’s oldest family-owned dairy, producing traditionally made cheese and butter from pasture-raised cows. Five generations strong, the Minerva Dairy family continues to use farm-fresh milk, old fashion churns and wholesome ingredients. It takes consumers back to an era when lifestyles were simpler, invites them to slow down and enjoy each product with their families just as the Minerva Dairy family has since 1894.

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Cinnamon Bacon Doughnuts #TheRecipeReDux ReDuxer Inspired Recipe

Cinnamon Bacon Doughnuts

Cinnamon Bacon Doughnuts dazzle your tastebuds and leave you wanting more! Easy, baked and oh yes, bacon!

Cinnamon Bacon Doughnut tray

This month Recipe ReDux turns our attention inward!

June Theme: Celebrate a ReDuxer!

For ReDux’s birthday month, let’s celebrate each other! Pick a fellow ReDuxer, go to their blog and either make one of their recipes or create one of your own inspired by theirs. In your post, give your readers a little intro to this blogger, what you like about this blogger/their blog and either link to their recipe you made or share your brand new “inspired” creation.

I’ve been a member of The Recipe ReDux for almost 3 years! Each month we focus our recipes around a theme.

I met a lot of great, supportive bloggers though the group.

More about the Recipe ReDux.

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As the first and only recipe challenge founded by registered dietitians, The Recipe ReDux is focused on taking delicious dishes, keeping them delicious, but making them better for you. Dietitians Regan Jones (ofReganMillerJones, Inc.), Serena Ball and Deanna Segrave-Daly (both of Teaspoon Communications) founded the group on the belief that healthier eating should always taste delicious. As the Latin term “redux” means to revisit or reinvent, we are reinventing the idea of healthy eating with a taste-first approach. We aim to inspire the food lover in every healthy eater and inspire the healthy eater in every food lover.

My inspiration for this post is Shashi  and her blog,  Runnin Srilankan .

I love her motto: Always Happy. Mostly Healthy. Never Hungry. In every post Shashi takes us into her world through stories of family, food, career, friends and running.

Shashi also always has a nice thing to say about other bloggers and their recipes. I love her fun comments on my posts.

If you are looking for a new spin on curry, a healthy remake on an old favorite like Shepherd’s Pie or something entirely new you won’t be disappointed. Many of her recipes are gluten-free.
I chose to remake her Cinnamon Bacon Doughnuts. What a delicious sounding combo, right? I thought you would agree.

Cinnamon Bacon Doughnut

Shashi’s original Cinnamon Bacon Doughnuts version is gluten-free and milk-free. I used brown sugar, 2 percent milk and all-purpose flour in mine. You can find her recipe HERE.

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Food For Thought… Who inspires you to create new recipes? Maybe it’s your spouse or your kids. Is it a parent, friend or blogger? Please leave your comment below!

 

Enjoy all these delicious ReDuxer tribute recipes from The Recipe ReDux!


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Essential Home-Ground Flour Book plus $50 Bob’s Red Mill GC #Giveaway #ad

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Learn more about milling your own whole grains into flour. Enter the rafflecopter below for your chance to win a copy plus a $50.00 gift certificate for Bob’s Red Mill to get you started!

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Have you ever used fresh milled flour? Fresh ground flour is powdery soft, warm and 100 percent grain.

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I personally use a WonderMill but there are many mills on the market.

Real whole grains are both nutritious and delicious. Whole grains are  easy to incorporate into any lifestyle. Breads made from freshly milled whole grains are healthy foods the whole family will eat and enjoy.

This book will answer many of the questions and dispel the many myths that surround bread and whole grains.

Here are a few examples:

  • What are “real” whole grains?
  • What are some of the common health issues that can be easily corrected by incorporating real whole grains into the diet?
  • Did you know that most whole grains can be stored indefinitely at room temperature with no loss of nutritional value?
  • Did you know that grains offer a nearly complete nutritional profile, making them the most nutrient dense food group available?
  • What are the main benefits of freshly ground flour?
  • Doesn’t bread make you fat?
  • What is the truth about wheat?
  • I’m busy – Is milling my own flour and making your own bread a time consuming task?
  • My family doesn’t like the whole grain bread that I buy from the store – how is the bread I am going to make from freshly milled flour going to be different?

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Apple Blueberry Almond Muffins

Yield: 12 muffin or 24 mini muffins

Serving Size: 1 each

Ingredients

  • 2 tsp chia seeds 10 mL
  • 6 tbsp water 90 mL
  • 1?2 cup finely ground almond flour 125 mL
  • 11?2 cups freshly milled brown rice flour 375 mL
  • 1 tsp baking powder 5 mL
  • 1 tsp baking soda 5 mL
  • 1?2 tsp salt 2 mL
  • 1?4 cup coconut oil, melted 60 mL
  • 1?2 cup liquid honey (see Tips) 125 mL
  • 1 tsp pure vanilla extract 5 mL
  • 1?2 tsp pure almond extract, optional 2 mL
  • 1 cup apple butter or applesauce 250 mL
  • 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries 250 mL

Instructions

  • In a small bowl, combine chia seeds and water. Set aside for about 5 minutes, until mixture thickens.
  • Meanwhile, in a large mixing bowl, whisk together almond flour, rice flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Make a well in the center. Set aside.
  • In another bowl, whisk together coconut oil and honey. Add soaked chia seeds, vanilla and almond extract, if using; whisk well. Add apple butter and mix well. Add all at once to flour mixture and mix until well combined. Fold in blueberries.
  • Divide batter evenly among prepared muffin cups (see Tips). Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes (15 to 20 minutes for mini muffins), until golden brown and tops spring back when lightly touched. Let cool in pan for about 5 minutes, then transfer to a serving plate or wire rack to cool further.
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About the Author

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Sue Becker is a passionate speaker and teacher. Since 1992, Sue has been teaching others the healthful benefits of whole grain nutrition and baking with freshly milled flour through lectures and cooking classes. She is the owner of two businesses, The Bread Beckers, Inc and The Real Bread Company and the founder of a non-profit ministry, Real Bread Outreach.

Disclaimer: I was given a copy of the Essential Home-Ground Flour Book and a copy to give away from Robert Rose Publishing. Bob’s Red Mill is not a direct sponsor. I’m offering the gift card as a source for whole grains. The gift card can be used online or at their store for purchases. WonderMill is not a sponsor of this giveaway. All opinions are my own.

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Strawberry Cream Cheese French Toast #SundaySupper

Strawberry Cream Cheese French Toast layers luscious strawberry cream cheese between thick slices of batter-dipped English Toasting Bread. Top with fresh Strawberry Balsamic Syrup.

Strawberry Cream Cheese Stuffed French Toast

Strawberry Cream Cheese Stuffed French Toast plate

This week Sunday Supper takes us back in time for….

Nostalgic Summer Recipes

As we roll into the lazy days of summer on June 21st, let’s conjure up the past with recipes that remind us of the carefree summer days of our childhood. From carnivals and county fairs to backyard BBQ’s and picnics on the beach, what dish invokes warm summertime memories?

Early summer here in PA is strawberry season! Farm stands and pick-your-own strawberry fields are ripe for the picking! 

One of the coolest memories I have is picking strawberries at my neighbor house. They had a strawberry patch about 100 yards from my back door.  Jean would send us kids out to pick a colander full at a time to make her best ever jam.

The best part was we could eat what we want for helping. There was alway enough to go around. Even for the birds!

Another great point to summer was no early morning schedule. I could sleep in if I wanted but then I might miss a cooked breakfast before Mom went to work.

Like French Toast for example. 😉

Strawberry season sparked another love for me. Strawberry cream cheese made with fresh strawberries as opposed to jam. There is still nothing as good as the real thing!

So for today’s Sunday Supper I decided to combine all these things into one decadent, delicious, strawberry nutritious meal.

Strawberry Cream Cheese French Toast

Strawberry Cream Cheese French Toast

Strawberry Cream Cheese French Toast.

I chose English Toasting Bread for its light, almost Angel Food Cake texture. Enjoy with your favorite syrup or dust with powdered sugar if you like.

Strawberry Cream Cheese French Toast

Yield: 3

Serving Size: 2 slices

Ingredients

  • 1/2 chopped strawberries
  • 8 ounces cream cheese or Neufchâtel cheese, cut into chunks
  • 2 Tablespoons powdered sugar
  • 1 loaf bread thick sliced (4 to six slices)
  • 4 eggs
  • 1/4 cup half and half
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • spray oil

Instructions

  • Puree strawberries and powder sugar together in a food processor. Add cream cheese and blend until smooth. set aside.
  • Whisk together eggs and half and half. Coat each side of bread with egg mixture. Sprinkle with cinnamon. Fry bread on hot greased griddle until golden brown.
  • Spread strawberry cream cheese on one side and top with another slice.
  • Serve with your favorite syrup.
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Special thanks to Coleen of The Redhead Baker for hosting this event and Marion from Life Tastes Good for coordinating our event!

Enjoy all these great recipes and summer food love stories from Sunday Supper!

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