| Author |
Across the Fence:  National Dairy Month Giveaway! Winner Chosen!!  |
|
Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
6517 Posts
Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
6517 Posts |
 Posted - Jun 12 2020 : 10:03:28 AM
|
Hi everyone, I am excited to tell you that our MaryJane is offering a copy of her Milk Cow Kitchen book as a Giveaway during our celebration of June as National Dairy Month!
Whether you own cows, want to own cows, or would love to learn how to make cheese and use dairy products in your recipes, this book has it ALL!! Even if you are a Farmgirl living in the suburbs, Milk Cow Kitchen is full of so many interesting recipes, how to own a backyard cow, and all sorts of projects using milk and milk products. I love this book and have read it several times. It is also a go to manual for lots of new recipe inspirations as well. If you have never tried the recipes from MJF magazine or her books, I can tell you that they are all delicious and they work. She carefully tests all of her recipes in her kitchen with her main cook, Ashley Ogle, until they are perfection.
I hope lots of you will toss your hat in the ring and sign-up. Please leave a note when you add your name about any experiences you have with cows, dairy farm visits, experiments making cheese or any cow/milk related stories. I will make sure to tell MaryJane to stop by to read all of your comments.. This is the third year we have been doing this fun giveaway and it is always fun to read here about your Farmgirl experiences and support of our National Dairy Month. Now, I am trying to resist breaking into that Vanilla ice cream in the freezer!! LOL!!
Winner will be selected on June 25! 
I am excited to announce that Hannah, GinngBelle, was chosen today as the winner of our Milk Cow Kitchen cookbook!! Congratulations, Hannah!! Please email me your mailing address so that I can forward it on to MJF for mailing. I know you are going to enjoy this fun and detailed collection of all things cow related!! There are so many wonderful recipes and all sorts of how-to make sections.
Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
Farm Sister of the Year 2014-2015
FGOTM- October 2018 |
Edited by - Red Tractor Girl on Jun 25 2020 10:23:54 AM |
|
|
nndairy
True Blue Farmgirl
2991 Posts
Heather
Wapakoneta
Ohio
USA
2991 Posts |
Posted - Jun 12 2020 : 1:34:12 PM
|
Don't resist Winnie - it's dairy month - you're supposed to eat the icecream LOL!! Thanks for hosting the giveaway - I also highly recommend this book.
I have so many experiences I don't know where to start. I grew up on a dairy farm and my husband and I dairy farm now. I'll post a picture and maybe after reading others experiences I'll have a good story pop into my mind.
~Heather
Farmgirl Sister #4701
September 2014 Farmgirl of the Month
"The purpose of life is to enjoy every moment" - Yogi teabag
|
 |
|
|
StitchinWitch
True Blue Farmgirl
2132 Posts
Judith
Galt
CA
USA
2132 Posts |
Posted - Jun 12 2020 : 4:59:27 PM
|
I have raised and milked goats but have limited experience with dairy cows. My aunt owned two when I was very small; they were friendly but I got nowhere with milking. I made cheese once with a recipe from an old Amish cookbook. It was an interesting process and turned out rather like a mild blue cheese. My next goal is to make feta as I eat a lot of it.
Judith
7932
Happiness is Homemade |
|
|
|
quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
7446 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
7446 Posts |
Posted - Jun 12 2020 : 7:41:08 PM
|
I'm not throwing my name in the pot; I just want to say that this is a very interesting book. I won the giveaway a year or two ago and love reading through the book and learning about making cheese. One of these days I will try it.
We still have 3 low-line cows - they are about 2/3 the size of a regular cow and are not for producing milk for us.
Farmgirl hugs,
Farmgirl #1919
Farm Girl of the Month August 2015 and April 2017
Linda O
Lone Oak, TX
"Women are Angels, and when someone breaks our wings, we simply continue to fly . . . on a broomstick - we're flexible, like that."
|
Edited by - quiltee on Jun 13 2020 05:52:51 AM |
|
|
|
katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17023 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17023 Posts |
Posted - Jun 12 2020 : 8:40:54 PM
|
Funny,,, I was just looking at a cute "Cow" x-stitch pattern (and a Chicken one too).. hmmm, maybe I should stitch it up...
As for ice cream, cheese, yogurt and sweet unsalted butter... I can never get enough!
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
|
Edited by - katmom on Jun 12 2020 8:44:32 PM |
|
|
|
windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
4100 Posts
Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
4100 Posts |
Posted - Jun 13 2020 : 03:01:03 AM
|
I will throw my hat in the ring for this one. lol I grew up on a dairy farm. We have some beef cow and I do have one family milk cow, Evelyn. She is dry right now. We are really missing the good milk and all the products I make. Nothing better then fresh homemade cheese.
Farming in WI
Michele
FGOTM June2019
|
|
|
|
Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9092 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
9092 Posts |
Posted - Jun 13 2020 : 04:14:12 AM
|
I have all the MJ bOOKS BUT THIS ONE. So would love to be in the drawing. I was brought up on a big farm, but no cows now. Sometimes I miss the girls, used to bring them up to the barn for milking, they would follow me along so gentle like.
Nancy Jo
NANCY JO |
|
|
|
Audra Rose
True Blue Farmgirl
2204 Posts
Vanessa
Brooksville
KY
USA
2204 Posts |
Posted - Jun 13 2020 : 08:01:48 AM
|
When I was young and we lived in Iowa, my mom would get gallons of milk from a dairy farm. She'd put the money in a cigar box, unscrew the cap from the pipe to a milk tank and pour it in. We always got cream that rose from it too. I'd love to learn how to make cheese, to go with my wine.
Farmgirl Sister #6754
Doxie Mom - Everyone loves a Weiner!
So in this world of the simple and odd,
The bent and plain, the unbalance bod,
The imperfect people and differently pawed,
Some live without love... That's how they're flawed.
Berkeley Breathed |
|
|
|
katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17023 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17023 Posts |
|
|
StitchinWitch
True Blue Farmgirl
2132 Posts
Judith
Galt
CA
USA
2132 Posts |
Posted - Jun 13 2020 : 12:15:56 PM
|
When we lived in the country one of our nearest neighbors had a nice little Jersey cow who produced more than their family needed so they sold us milk for fifty cents a gallon. There was enough cream on that milk to also supply our butter needs. I still have my old glass churn.
Judith
7932
Happiness is Homemade |
|
|
|
Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
6517 Posts
Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
6517 Posts |
Posted - Jun 13 2020 : 1:19:35 PM
|
I am lovin' all these fun comments to cows and cow products!! Heather, your photo is too cute!
Hehe, Vanessa and Grace, just give me a holler and I will bring some homemade crackers for the cheese!!
Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
Farm Sister of the Year 2014-2015
FGOTM- October 2018 |
|
|
|
City Chick
True Blue Farmgirl
1402 Posts
Deb
Chattanooga
TN
USA
1402 Posts |
Posted - Jun 14 2020 : 10:44:14 AM
|
I grew up in the city. Only saw cows at the zoo. Until I was a teenager and adult cousins invited me, my siblings & Mom to spend 2 weeks on their dairy farm. It was amazing. My cousin woke us up super early one morning because a cow was having her baby. It was incredible. We had never seen that before. I also remember taking a pitcher and going to the dairy barn to get fresh milk.
I now have a dairy loving daughter who is 19 and wants to make her own cheese. This would be awesome to win. (we now live in the country and she also wants goats!)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Farm Girl #790
https://twitter.com/EllieFunt
|
|
|
|
GinnyBelle
True Blue Farmgirl
501 Posts
Hannah
West Lafayette
IN
USA
501 Posts |
Posted - Jun 15 2020 : 09:53:01 AM
|
I spent a several months working on an operating 1930's farm that is part of a state park near me. It was one of the greatest times of my life. One of my jobs was to demonstrate milking to the guests. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. One of the little girls in a school group actually had to show me! Haha! Luckily, the cow was very patient.
Farmgirl #6994
Sunshine Mixed With A Little Hurricane |
|
|
|
MaryJanesNiece
True Blue Farmgirl
6680 Posts
Krista
Utah
USA
6680 Posts |
Posted - Jun 15 2020 : 1:18:21 PM
|
I personally don’t have any cow interactions other than feeding them with my husband once on the family farm or seeing them at fairs. Everleigh is currently going through a cow obsession phase and it’s adorable. The pasture behind us is full of them right now. My brother in law is going to school in food sciences and has been currently making cheese. It is by far the best cheese I have ever eaten. Sometimes I can’t contain myself lol! We have plans to get some cows in the future and I am really hoping for a Highland cow. They are just so dang adorable and call my name!
Krista |
|
|
|
Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
6517 Posts
Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
6517 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2020 : 09:57:32 AM
|
Here is the Peach Cobbler recipe from Milk Cow Kitchen. Wow, it is delicious and easy to make!!
.jpg?v 8524755)
Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
Farm Sister of the Year 2014-2015
FGOTM- October 2018 |
|
|
|
nndairy
True Blue Farmgirl
2991 Posts
Heather
Wapakoneta
Ohio
USA
2991 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2020 : 1:10:32 PM
|
Have you tried the White Chili? I LOVE it!!!!
Our newest baby girl - about half an hour old - just hanging out with her mama.
~Heather
Farmgirl Sister #4701
September 2014 Farmgirl of the Month
"The purpose of life is to enjoy every moment" - Yogi teabag
|
|
|
|
StitchinWitch
True Blue Farmgirl
2132 Posts
Judith
Galt
CA
USA
2132 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2020 : 2:01:52 PM
|
What a sweet baby girl-- congratulations!
Judith
7932
Happiness is Homemade |
|
|
|
TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
4919 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
4919 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2020 : 3:04:49 PM
|
I would love to win this book.
My first four years were spent on a farm, with milk cows, in Knox County Texas. I will never forget how excited my mother was to get a new device called a cream seperator! I was three. She needed it because she had a newborn baby, a 14 month old toddler, and 3 year old... ME!
My grandma had two Jersey cows. She always had yummy thick cream. She sold her butter, and eggs from her hens. I remember one year watching my mother and her sisters making cottage cheese..They hung the bag on the clothes line!
When, I was grown up and married, we finally bought land far out in the country my husband decided to start a dairy. I was teaching school and had a teen aged son, but soon learned to milk those huge pretty ladies. There is something comforting about being in their midst.
Oh, this was one of my favorite times...when we put the new mommas back into the herd with their new babies...just like humans...the whole herd would gather to ooh and ahh over the newest little ones. Then the mommas were content to find their position within the herd, as the babies were taken by my husband and son to the sale or the pens to be bottle fed!
Ours was a small dairy. 100 cows. Now days the dairies in our county are huge, most run around the clock. Most milk thousands of cows and most are owned by Dutch families. They are the sweetest people.
TexasGran
#6389
Let God's light shine through you every day.
Amazon Children's Books, look for my name:Marilyn Robinson Godfrey
Craftsy: patterns for farm stick animals under my name.
|
Edited by - TexasGran on Jun 18 2020 3:07:45 PM |
|
|
|
StitchinWitch
True Blue Farmgirl
2132 Posts
Judith
Galt
CA
USA
2132 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2020 : 6:12:05 PM
|
I have a cow memory. One day a neighbor girl (now my sweet daughter-in-law) came running over yelling "Stupid is having her baby!" So we all went out to the pasture between our houses to watch. By and by the calf hit the ground. The cow, living up to her name, looked around behind her and backed up as far as she could get. She finally did adopt the calf but it took a while.
Judith
7932
Happiness is Homemade |
|
|
|
GinnyBelle
True Blue Farmgirl
501 Posts
Hannah
West Lafayette
IN
USA
501 Posts |
Posted - Jun 25 2020 : 10:46:36 AM
|
Oh my goodness, this was very unexpected! This made my day, thank you so much!
Farmgirl #6994
Sunshine Mixed With A Little Hurricane |
|
|
|
Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9092 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
9092 Posts |
Posted - Jun 25 2020 : 10:52:01 AM
|
Good for you Hannah!! All the MJ books are keepers. Enjoy.
Nancy Jo
NANCY JO |
|
|
|
katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17023 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17023 Posts |
Posted - Jun 25 2020 : 11:36:41 AM
|
Hannah,, WHoot Whoot and Congrats!
Enjoy your goodies... and do feel free to try your hand at the chili or cobbler and share with us!
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
|
Edited by - katmom on Jun 25 2020 11:38:02 AM |
|
|
|
City Chick
True Blue Farmgirl
1402 Posts
Deb
Chattanooga
TN
USA
1402 Posts |
|
|
suny58
True Blue Farmgirl
4330 Posts
Dianna
Jack
Al.
USA
4330 Posts |
Posted - Jun 25 2020 : 1:15:48 PM
|
Yea Hannah! Congratulations hon!!!
Farmgirl #7103
FGOTM January 2018
Dianna
"Blessed are they that see beautiful things in humble places, where other people see nothing." Pissarro |
|
|
|
levisgrammy
True Blue Farmgirl
9233 Posts
Denise
Beavercreek
Ohio
USA
9233 Posts |
Posted - Jun 25 2020 : 3:10:18 PM
|
Yay Congratulations Hannah! You are going to love this book.
~Denise
Sister #43~1/18/2007
"Home is where we find comfort, security, memories, friendship, hospitality, and above all, family. It is the place that deserves our commitment and loyalty." William J. Bennett
"Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." Psalm 119:105
http://www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com/
|
|
|
|
GinnyBelle
True Blue Farmgirl
501 Posts
Hannah
West Lafayette
IN
USA
501 Posts |
Posted - Jun 25 2020 : 4:49:27 PM
|
Thank you, ladies!
Grace, I will surely post pics when I try something. I wish I could actually share. How nice that would be!
Farmgirl #6994
Sunshine Mixed With A Little Hurricane |
|
|
|
Across the Fence: National Dairy Month Giveaway! Winner Chosen!! |
|
National Dairy Month Giveaway! Winner Chosen!!
