Celebrate June Dairy Month With Tasty Recipes
June 5, 2012By Jessy Yancey
This month marks the 75th annual June Dairy Month. Though dairy month history says its original goal was to get people to consume more dairy products during peak production season (hello, summer), by the mid-1950s it had evolved into the overall promotion of dairy foods.
So enjoy your dairy products this month. Have some yogurt for breakfast, string cheese as a snack and don’t feel so guilty about smothering butter on whatever vegetables and breads you serve at dinner. Okay, maybe butter isn’t the healthiest ingredient in the world, but real butter – and all dairy products – contain vitamin D, which is essential to helping your body absorb calcium.
Celebrate June Dairy Month in a delicious way – by making some of these tasty recipes filled with dairy products.
Breakfast Recipes
Fresh Fruit Smoothie: Made with low-fat vanilla yogurt, or substitute skim milk or buttermilk
Pumpkin Pancakes: Calls for 3 cups milk, and tastes great with a little whipped cream on top
Country Ham and Cheese Biscuits: Features sour cream, Swiss cheese and milk/buttermilk
Main Course Recipes
Eggplant, Mozzarella and Pesto Gratins: Each eggplant stack contains a thick slice of mozzarella cheese, plus Parmesan (okay, and butter…)
Blue Cheese Ribbon Meat Loaf: Contains 1 cup of milk in addition to a ribbon of blue cheese (or cheddar, if you’re not on board with pungent blue cheese)
Creamy Tomato Basil Soup: Gets its smooth, creamy texture from heavy cream
Sour Cream Enchiladas: Combining sour cream, cheddar cheese and cream of mushroom soup
Dessert Recipes
Panna Cotta With Fresh Berries: Milk and heavy cream, Italian style
Old-Fashioned Strawberry Shortcake: Butter, half-and-half plus plenty of whipped cream
Carrot Cake Cupcakes With Cream Cheese Frosting: Mmm, cream cheese…
Raspberry Lime Tart: Cream cheese blended with Greek yogurt
Homemade Butter Pecan Ice Cream: Made using the dairy trifecta of butter, milk and whipping cream
And that’s just a few of our dairy recipe repertoire. Plus, don’t forget to thank a dairy farmer for all these delicious dairy products, from yogurt to cheese to plain ol’ delicious milk. Cheers!
