These cheesy lovers are super excited to share Cabot Cheese’s joys. We recently attended a special cooking demonstration by Chef Jimmy Kennedy, showcasing different ways to use the company’s dairy products. Cabot is a coop owned by 1,100 farm families throughout New York & New England. They strive on small family-owned farms with responsible farming to create amazing dairy products like cheese, milk, yogurt, butter, and more. What makes it so appealing is that they are not factory farming and more ethical treatment of animals.
Chef Jimmy Kennedy showcased the best dishes you can create with their dairy products, from breakfast to tasty desserts. Everything we ate was excellent and just made us love cheese even more. We are happy to share some of our favorite dishes with recipes on their website. With his big arms, Chef Jimmy Kennedy definitely won a warm spot in our hearts.
Another coop, Divine Chocolate, was at the event promoting a similar farmer-owned company from Ghana that grows cocoa. You might have seen their products in many stores, but learning about their mission and the farmers’ benefits was great.
Disclaimer: featured food was provided by Cabot Cheese as part of a Media Event; read more about the disclaimer
Breakfast Parfait with Greek Yogurt
You know breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and the maker of Cabot cheese has your back with several flavors of Greek Yogurt. They offer Vanilla beans, Strawberry, Honey, and Plain, so it’s easy to create a nice morning parfait. It was great to start a foodie event with some breakfast. It began at 10:00 am, and we got a bit cranky and hangry in the morning. So, our choice for the yogurt base was Plain Yogurt. We added some Granola, Strawberries, Chocolate Covered Matzo, and more chocolate from Divine Chocolate. You can never go wrong with some chocolate in the morning. This made for a great, filling breakfast with 16 grams of protein and many vitamins per serving. The complete list is available on the Cabot website if you are wondering about the ingredients.
Cheddar Cream Biscuits
You haven’t had a biscuit until it comes combined with a lot of Cabot cheese. It’s like bacon. Pretty much anything becomes so much better with it. Biscuits are no different. Baked with cheese, it brought them to a new level. This cheese lover loved them, and it was hard to resist eating too many. After all, there are so many more dishes left. Learn how to make this cheesy, creamy goodness with their Cheddar Cream Biscuits recipe.
Monte Cristo Sandwich
These cheesy boys are super excited when they start making some fresh Monte Cristo Sandwich with Cabot cheese. This is one of our favorite dishes that always highlights cheese. The cheese company sure knows how to make it with a thick layer of gooey cheese, just like Monte Cristo should be. Granny Smith apple and Vermont Syrup’s addition made for both savory and sweet dishes. The combination of the two struck our tooth buds and made us happy noming. It’s common for the cheese to get overpowered by other ingredients like bread and ham, but not in this case. Cabot cheese retained both the texture and flavor throughout the whole process. This was so good that we couldn’t resist and ate a few more of them. It’s just that good! If this beautiful dish captured your hungry desires, you can make one at home using their Monte Cristo Sandwich with Cabot Cheese recipe.
Mac n Cheese with Cabot Cheese
You can’t have a cheese event without Mac n Cheese, especially when it’s a company with a motto of MORE CHEESE! Unless this is your first time reading our blog, you know we love Mac and Cheese. Like, crazy. I love it! It is one of our favorite dishes, so our bar is set as high as Boris (6’4″ / 2m). It’s good that the cheese is in unlimited supply today to make it extra creamy. The sauce was freshly made right in front of us. Ah, every bite of this made us happy, cheesy boys. We had many different toppings available for us, but this dish didn’t need any of them. Enjoying it in its pure, cheesy form is just as good. This is one of those recipes you have to try making at home. Here is their Mac n Cheese recipe.
Cheesy Desserts
Cheese is great with anything, and you can even make desserts out of it, so we were excited to see some Peanut Butter S’mores Cups and Gluten-Free Blueberry Granola Cups. You would think with cheese, these desserts would be heavy, but after finishing two, it didn’t feel like sugar overload. We have little self-control when it comes to dessert. Sadly, we couldn’t find a recipe for these two desserts, but you can find many other nomnom treats on their Desserts Recipe list.
Where Cheese Comes From, a Farm Chat
We all know where cheese comes from. Unlike kids, it’s not a stork. Unlike the big companies that perform ugly factory farming, these farmers take a more caring approach to cows. Many believe everything comes from cruel factory farming conditions, and Cabot Cheese wants people to know they are different. Cabot Cheese is a cooperative of small farms working toward bringing us a quality product without cruel techniques. The whole conversation between media, bloggers, and farmers was fascinating. We met and chatted with one of the dairy farmers, Jenni Tilton Flood, who you should follow on Twitter @jtiltonflood.
Where to Buy Cabot Products
Cabot products are cheap, ranging from $3 to $5, and available in stores nationwide, like Giant, Whole Foods, Safeway, and Sniders. The products are also available from food delivery services like Amazon Fresh, Instacart, and Peapod.