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This week is food month in The Irish Times, the top chefs from all around Ireland publish their favourite dishes using ingredients from local food producers. There was a rack of lamb with a Velvet Cloud Caesar dressing, by Kevin Stiraker of The Dining Room. I discovered this dressing this summer, and it is beyond delicious. Fantastic on a salad as you would expect, but also goes really well with lamb, and when you make it keeps for days in a jar in the fridge.

In the last week or two, we've been very fortunate that some more of Ireland's best chefs have been posting and promoting their creations using Velvet Cloud Yogurt and Rockfield Cheese, here are a selection of a few which might inspire.

This week we were in the media, found a delicious yogurt sauce recipie for lamb burgers and we have the latest SuperValu stockists update.

This is a huge development for a small business like ours!  It means that any Super Valu or Centra in the country can now order our sheep's yogurt from the Musgrave warehouse and have it on their shelf within 48 hours.

Barbeque Inspiration

The Barbecues were out this weekend, and we got some lovely ideas, from customers around the country, plus the sheep's milk momentum is growing.

Its been a crazy week !

On  Tuesday last (18th May 2021) we were thrilled with a feature that appeared in the Irish Independent The many benefits of ‘ewe-ghurt’: how this Mayo couple made the most of a gap in the market for sheep’s yoghurt" for those who haven’t read about our journey before, you can read the article here

Probiotics are live bacteria which have frequently been reported to be beneficial in preventing a wide range of diseases as well as playing a major role in treating the existing ailments.  Our yogurt contains four live cultures.

Lactobacillus bulgaricus

Lactobacillus acidophilus

Bifidobacterium lactis

Streptococcus thermophiles

But with all that is written about probiotics I wanted to look at which was better the pill/tablet probiotic or taking foods with have naturally probiotics?

Like all farmers in Ireland, it is all systems go as soon as the sun comes out. So we've been able to prepare the ground for a new fodder beat crop, which hopefully we can sew this week. Also, the grass has started to grow like mad, which is fantastic because we were getting a bit worried. We set up a paddock system at this time of year, so the girls get to graze a totally fresh piece of grass every few days. You can keep an eye on our Instagram, Twitter and Facebook for video updates this week.

This weekend was a great one for Velvet Cloud media coverage and gave us all a moral boost here on the farm

During this pandemic we are all supposed to try to increase our consumption of foods like Fruit and Veg and foods containing LIVE cultures such as (yogurts, kombuchas, and kefirs).

Velvet Cloud contains the 4 live cultures

• Streptococcus thermophiles
• Lactobacillus bulgaricus
• Lactobacillus acidophilus
• Bifidobacterium lactis