Be still my heart …
My first shipment of Milk Cow Kitchen books arrived early and VERY unexpectedly last Friday. Bookstores and Amazon still list my book as having a June 1 release date.
In addition to order fulfillment, I purchased extra books to give away, so I’ll run this post several times until my giveaway stash disappears.
All you have to do to get your name in our giveaway hat is …
Tell me what you’d name your cowpanion and what you’d do with that first bucket of milk you’d bring through your back door.
I mean, who hasn’t had a milk cow fantasy?
My book gives you how-to details for keeping a pet milk cow on your suburban half acre, a backyard lot in town … or at least, it’ll help fuel your fantasy of a someday cow grazing outside your kitchen window.
Milk cow fantasy aside, my book is chock full of recipes using dairy—75 to be exact—along with 15 step-by-step cheese-making recipes.
“In ways that matter, we are all the same. I have yet to find an emotion that is normally attributed to humans that is not displayed by animals. Just because they don’t speak our words doesn’t mean they are not communicating. They are constantly communicating. Once you click in, you can see it. If we let go of the unconscious limits we normally impose on animals and simply look at them, listen to them, and pay attention, they have a whole lot to say, and they say it clearly.”
– Kathy Stevens, founder, Catskill Animal Sanctuary, from The Inner World of Farm Animals by Amy Hatkoff
I would name my cow Emma and the first thing I would make is ice cream. Yum!
I’d name my girl Olivia because I just like the name. I think I would be so excited to get that first pail of milk that I’d want to make yogurt, cheese, butter, ice cream…..but most likely would end up savoring the taste of the fresh milk with some chocolate chip cookies. Sounds like a little slice of heaven to me.
I would name her Zydeco and I would drink the first milk.
Oh my it would be an amazing dream come true if I could have a cowpanion in my backyard! I’d name her Tulip and I’d be lucky to keep my girls from drinking all the milk up before I could make something with it! 😉 but I think I would have to make some cheese or butter!
I would name my cow MayBell. Before going to the house I would share a little milk with the cats & chickens. Then off to the kitchen to strain & cool. Let that beautiful cream rise & make some wonderful sweet creamy butter. Thank MaryJane for all your inspiration!
I’d name my ole gal Sadie after my granny who taught me how to milk cows when I was a young little girl. Then when the first bucket came in the door I’d make me some butter and use some of those wooden butter molds to have a pretty pattern on them. I’d possibly just have someone make me a mold with Sadie on it so I could see her name in the butter. Then what milk was left. I’d DRINK IT.. the two of us here alone and we go through so much milk I swear we need two cows of our very own. My husband and I LOVE MILK….Or either make some homemade ice cream. Oh I’d have to have those hammered metal glasses my granny used to put in the freezer to get them really cold to pour the milk in. I sure miss those days. My Pop would take his milk and put ice cubes in it then he’d take some crackers and cheese and sit down and watch the sunset while he enjoyed his treat..
I’d name my cowpanion Dariel. The first thing I would do with my bucket of milk would be to drink some and make yogurt.
I would name her Helen Faye after my grandmother’s. My son Austin and I would use the cream to make butter the old fashioned way with a wooden churn
Sally is due on June 1st. I can’t wait to make butter! Plus I want to mix Sally’s milk with my dairy goats’ milk and make cheese!
I would name her “Lula Bell”. I can just see her coming up the path when I call her name. With Mooooooooing all the way. The first thing I would make would be a cup of “Hot Coco” with some half and half. Then I would turn some butter in my antique butter churn. I can just taste it on some homemade drop biscuits. What a breakfast! mmmm good!
Amazing Grace and make fresh butter.
My cowpanions name would be Peachy. I would make delicious peach flavored ice cream out of my first pail of milk.
Tulip sounds like a wonderful name for a cowpanion don’t you think? 😉 I so miss having fresh milk, straight from the cow. I would make fresh ricotta cheese!
I will someday name my cow “BESSIE”. Somehow a sweet cow named Bessie, just sounds and feels right!
As for that first pot of liquid gold….hmmmmm. For sure chill it and have a nice tall glass of raw milk! From there, gee, the possibilities are endless I guess!
Thanks for the opportunity to win your latest and greatest Mary Jane!
Hugs,
Laurie
Bossy after my childhood milk cow! She was an easy milk! Only had to milk 3teats! She tried to cross a barbed wire fence and poked a hole in a teat that healed open! We’d start milking her and the forth teat pressure would build up and flow! Too awesome! First bucket? Skim cream for that awesome butter….then some gravy!
I would name my cowpanion Blue Bird. I drive a Blue Bird school bus and I love my job and the children that I transport. The first thing I would do with the first milk I got would be to drink a huge glass of it and them make ice cream.
I like the name Miss Daisy Mae. It just sounds sweet and summery to me, and I think of summer when I think of cows. The first bucket of milk…..well assuming I don’t spill all of it on my way back to the house, (I tend to be clumsy sometimes when I am happy), I would probably try my hand at making cheese and maybe use the cream for whip cream on some strawberry short cake…..or on peaches. Mmmm……
How does a cow produce milk without a baby
It doesn’t. Needs to have a baby first. What are you referring to?
I would name her Snooki (cause she is a Jersey Girl) and we would use the first bucket of milk for breakfast that morning (and lunch and dinner).
Oh! A beautiful jersey with a full muzzle of pink. Her name will be Rosy because she also loves to meander into the garden and eat my pink roses.
With the first pint of cream I will make sour cream. Easy, easy, easy. And once I have it, my Aunt Marie’s Sour Cream German Kuchen. An old family recipe. Oh, my. Nothing could be finer….
I have a 7000 square foot urban farm ( .16 of an acre) that’s packed with goodness. Cows aren’t allowed, but I have had chickens. I look forward to someday getting to the farm and watching Rosie from my kitchen window.
I was a farm girl, and I would name my Cow, Rone, after one of my Dad’s milk cows back in the 1950’s. She was the cow who was in the 2nd stall when Dad did the milking, his cows knew their own stalls and went right to them when then walked in the door of the barn to get milked……….and what I would do was what my Mom did, cook the raw milk, we didn’t use raw milk and after is was chilled have a tall glass of milk and a cookie………..
Maybe having a cow named ‘Holy’ would be nice 😉 So when I say ‘Holy Cow’ it is really referring to a cow named Holy… LOL!
I would like to make everything… hence the reason I get little done… I want to do it all and get overwhelmed and end up doing very little … I could use some serious guidance!
Congrats on the new book and good luck to all!
I would call her June for the cow I milked when I was a little girl spending a month of the summer on the farm. I still dream of that farm. We found that I could drink the raw milk (couldn’t drink the milk from the store) and I was drinking so much that I had to start milking too. The first thing I did was squirt the cats in the corner with milk. Thinking about it now, that probably wasn’t very nice but they just licked it off and wanted more until they got some in their pan. Cereal with fresh cream is wonderful.
I would name my cow “Miss Boro” because my “borough” will not let me have a cow..we are not zoned for it..so, then, “Miss Boro” and I would have to move out to the country, out of our “borough” and we would sit under a big tree together and I would enjoy the ice cream I made from that first milk and “Miss Boro” and I would agree that we are quite the team….
I will name my cow Ethel and my first bucket of milk will be greeted by a plate of hot chocolate chip cookies, some will be added to a freshly brewed cup of java and I think some fresh butter for a loaf of homemade bread…. I can smell it already!
First I would name my cow Percy after an ol’ timer I waited on early in my waitressing years. Percy would come in everyday about 7 pm for supper at the Country Kitchen I worked at. He would ALWAYS have the special of the day with a tall glass of MILK! And as for what I would do with my first fresh milk….make cheese, and ice cream! Both of those items would be easy to share with friends!
I’m a traditionalist I’d have to go with Bessie!
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I would name her Elsie and would love to learn how to make cheese!
I would name my cow, Duck. She would be a very sweet and pleasant girl that the children and I would love on. Our first bucket of milk, I would take to my fellowship and share with others.
I now have my ten acres – I’ve got my garden half way there and I have learned how to can, preserve and dyhydrat my gardening yields!!! I just now need a cow and a couple of chickens to add to my self reliance at the AGE of 69. I’m having a ball learning how to be a country girl! Ps I’ve learned how to quilt and make my own soap! I’m getting there.
I would name her Daisy Mae & my grandchildren & I would skim the cream from the top of the first bucket of her milk & churn butter with the old crock & paddle churn saved from the Iowa farm of my childhood!!
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