Baa Baa Black Sheep have you any Lambs?

Oh boy!
Its so ON! I recently placed a BIG order for some very snappy looking water proof labels. You can wash them in water or submerge them in ice for several hours and still have a nice glossy finish- which could be perfect entertainment if you go crazy at our booth on the opening day of PSU and eat so much dairy you can barely move. We have a word for this - dairy overdose - and we are very happy suppliers.

In addition to all this hoopla we have pregnant Ewes on the farm popping out babie lambs! (we have real live baby lambs!)
I thought I would take this time to tell you what I know about lambs.

1. Sheep is the word for all of them
2. Lambs are the young sheep
3. Ewes are the females who give us milk
4. I am going to be little Bo peep and Vanae and Alanna are going to be my very cute sheep for Halloween this year
5. I am totally excited to make fresh sheep cheeses and you should be totally excited to eat them because they are going to be very very very very very very very very yummy

That's about all I know about lambs, ewes and sheep-thankfully I know a lot more about what to do with their milk so we shouldn't have any problems.
Thankfully you will have a plethora of sheepy cheesy products to choose from but one VERY special one will be available. It will be the Jacobs Creamery private reserve label cheese - and its going to be an aged full sheep's milk feta and sheep's milk ricotta that will make you fall in love.....OMG I get goose bumps just thinking about it.
One of the benefits of sheep milk is that it can be eaten by people who are lactose intolerant, like my mother :) Generally I tell these folks to pop the dairy pill but now they can happily consume more than one of my cheeses without having to be in close proximity to a loo!

Following last weeks Ode to Big Blue I have created a song for you to enjoy that was inspired by another cheese.

oooHHH aHHHHH AHHHHHH
Lovely Feta Feta I made
Lovely Feta Feta I made
Nothing can come between Us!
When it get gets dark I take your whey away!

Standing by the market booth
I caught a glimpse of you!
Going home from the Jacobs Creamery booth....da da da da

Lovely Feta Feta I made
Nothing can come between us
Lovely Feta Feta I made

In a tub you looked much older
But O how I longer to hold her
Sitting there you looked a little like a specialty cheese O o o o

Lovely Feta Feta I made
Where would I be without you!
Give a wink and make me think of you!!! O

OOOOOOOO- Feta!!!!!!

Ill finish with this fabulous greek pie recipe that is as simple as it is delicious.
Its best if you can grab some of Rick Stephens spinach freshly picked with some morning dew and of course my Lovely Feta!

1 pack o phyllo dough (if you dont know what this is omit)(nebs)
1 pound of cooked spinach - drained
3/4 pound of Jacobs Creamery lovely Feta
2 cups of ricotta cheese
1/2 thinly diced onion sauted in JC spring pasture butter
6 TB of all purpose flour
5 Jacobs Creamery curd fed chicken eggs lightly beaten
salt and pepper to taste

Put the phyllo dough on the bottom of a buttered pan then mix everything else together well and plop it in a hot oven until the middle reads 160 then take it out and cool!
Voila

Yours always
Cheese Czarina!