Waterloo, Wisconsin — With kids back in school and the weather turning cool, it seems that September is the month for simple snacks that satisfy on busy days. Crave Brothers Farmstead Classics make it easy to serve high-quality snacks the whole family will enjoy. These award-winning quality artisan cheeses are a great complement for fresh fruits and vegetables, too.
Serve Crave Brothers Fresh Mozzarella with slices of tomato, as an ingredient for an antipasto plate with meats and marinated vegetables, or with fresh fruit. For a quick salad, combine Fresh Mozzarella with sliced strawberries and fresh mint. Fresh Mozzarella and mango slices serve as a refreshing snack as well.
Petit Frère European-style cheese is a natural for serving with vegetables. Serve fresh celery and carrot sticks with the Every Day is a Holiday Dip. Simply add chunks of Petit Frère cheese, Crave Brothers Mascarpone, chopped Spanish olives with pimento, hazelnuts and seasoning to a blender or food processor. Pulse briefly until the ingredients are combined into a delectable dip to serve with vegetables.
Crave Brothers Mascarpone offers a variety of ways to enhance soups, pasta and desserts. Some of the most delicious combinations, though, are Mascarpone and Fruit. Mix Mascarpone with honey or maple syrup for a simple dip to complement slices of seasonal fruit such as apples and pears. Top berries—either fresh or thawed frozen varieties—with a dollop of Mascarpone. Peaches and Mascarpone make another winning pair, whether it’s slices of fresh fruit, or rustic specialties such as peach cobbler and peach crumble. Lemon curd is also a delicious complement for Mascarpone. Crave Brothers offers an easy-but-delicious recipe for Lemon Mascarpone Tarts. Four simple ingredients—refrigerated sugar cookie dough, room-temperature Mascarpone, a jar of lemon curd, and fresh raspberries—can help you create a new classic.
Crave Brothers Farmstead Classics are made with milk from the Crave Brothers Dairy Farm. The cheeses are all produced at the farmstead cheese factory on a sustainable, state-of-the-art family farm. Visit the Crave Brothers Farmstead Classics website at www.cravecheese.com for snack recipes, serving suggestions, and other information about this award-winning family of cheeses.
The Crave family farms 1700 acres of rich land in south-central Wisconsin, growing soybeans, corn and alfalfa to use as nutritious feed for their Holstein cows. From the manure digester to water recovery, sustainability is top-of-mind on the farm. Every pound of cheese made by George Crave, a licensed cheese maker, is made with milk from the family’s herd. Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese produces Mascarpone, Fresh Mozzarella, Les Frères® and Petit Frère® French-style cheeses, Farmer’s Rope Part-Skim Mozzarella String Cheese and Oaxaca.
Source: Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese, LLC