For the first time at IFBC - meet, greet and eat with Redwood Hill Farm and Green Valley Organics Lactose Free

Come by our table at Saturday’s Gourmet Fair to Share Your Goat Story & a Chance to Win an Artisan Goat Cheese Collection Box!

Redwood Hill Farm & Creamery is located in Sebastopol, Calif., just 60 miles north of San Francisco among the picturesque Redwood trees of western Sonoma County. Our flagship brand is Redwood Hill Farm (RHF), a line of goat milk products that includes artisan cheeses, goat yogurt and kefir. Even though goat milk has been the most consumed milk in the world for centuries, it has only recently grown in awareness and popularity here in the U.S. Now is a perfect time to taste our goat milk cheeses and share goat stories with us.

Did you know that after being weaned as an infant, Foodista Founder Sheri Wetherell's pediatrician recommended she drink goat milk exclusively until the age of four in order to build her weak immune system, and The Tomato Tart Blogger Sabrina Modelle dreams of owning her own goats one day? We’ll be collecting goat stories on video to share with our friends and customers, and would love to hear yours!

Come see us at IFBC’s Saturday Gourmet Fair to chat and taste our award-winning goat milk cheeses, including Chèvre, Raw Milk Feta and Smoked Cheddar, and create your favorite flavor bite by pairing them with Sonoma County honey, chutneys and fruits. Everyone who shares their goat story will receive a coupon for a free goat yogurt or kefir and may enter for a chance to win an online gift certificate for one of two Redwood Hill Farm Deluxe Collections of artisan goat milk cheeses, which will include an assortment of Sonoma County made condiments with free shipping.

Looking toward next year, we will be celebrating many different ways to use goat milk dairy in everyday recipes and snacks. Some of these recipes will be inspired by the upcoming 2015 Chinese Lunar Calendar “Year of the Goat” with a menu that incorporates our goat milk yogurt and kefir. An example from the menu is included here for ”Lucky 8” Salad with Redwood Hill Farm Yogurt Peanut Sauce Dressing.  

Redwood Hill Farm’s sister brand, Green Valley Organics (GVO), was introduced in 2010. Our award-winning yogurt, kefir and sour cream are made with real cow dairy, made lactose free using a simple process by which the natural enzyme “lactase” is added to the milk. Lactase does the job that many people’s digestive systems cannot – it “digests” the lactose and breaks it down into two easily digestible sugars. The enzyme does not affect taste – Green Valley Organics is real dairy that everyone in the family will enjoy. Sign up to receive GVO and RHF e-newsletters during the Gourmet Fair and you’ll be entered into a drawing for a goody basket from both brands, which will be on display.

From farm to finished product, Redwood Hill Farm & Creamery is committed to sustainable practices for the benefit of people, animals and the planet.

All RHF and GVO products are:

─      Made in our solar powered creamery. Our family goat farm is solar powered as well, using a photovoltaic solar system mounted that tracks with the sun

─      Proudly labeled Certified Humane Raised and Handled^®. In fact, Redwood Hill Farm was the first goat dairy in the United States to earn this distinction. (Owner Jennifer Bice lives on the family farm and knows all 300+ goats in her award-winning herd by name!)

Get in touch at contact@redwoodhill.com to request Redwood Hill Farm/Green Valley Organics product vouchers for review, recipe testing or giveaway, or to inquire about visiting our goat dairy farm during our two farm tours next spring. Find us online at RedwoodHill.com, GreenValleyLactoseFree.com and on Twitter: @RedwoodHillFarm

“Lucky 8” Salad with Redwood Hill Farm Yogurt Peanut Sauce Dressing

The number “8” is very lucky for the Chinese, so it’s not unusual to find a delicious dish with eight special ingredients on the table during Chinese New Year. Traditionally, eight ingredients like bamboo shoots, bean shoots and other “lucky” ingredients are stir-fried together to make something truly delicious. This “Lucky 8 Chinese Salad” is dressed with a delicious goat milk yogurt peanut sauce dressing. You can choose any ingredients you love, but I like the crunch of the cucumbers, the slightly spicy radish wedges and the sweetness of the tomatoes when paired with the peanut yogurt sauce. The egg ribbons add an Asian flavor to this salad, and the addition of fresh herbs give an added freshness with every bite. The carrots are also important since they are thought to bring luck.

INGREDIENTS:

2 medium carrots, julienned or grated
2 medium cucumbers, cut at an angle
2 medium tomatoes, cut into small wedges
1 small head romaine or iceberg lettuce (for crunch), outer leaves removed
Mix of cilantro and Thai basil, small handful, roughly chopped
4 small radishes, cut into four wedges
3 eggs, beaten
Peanut sauce (recipe follows)
Olive Oil

Crunchy Redwood Hill Farm Yogurt Peanut Sauce

2 cloves garlic, minced or finely chopped
3 Tbsp. crunchy peanut butter
1 Tbsp. fish sauce or salt to taste
Juice of 1 lime
4 Tbsp. Redwood Hill Farm Plain Goat Milk Yogurt
1 Tbsp. sugar
1 small serrano chili, minced (or jalapeno for less heat)

INSTRUCTIONS:

For the sauce: combine the garlic, peanut butter, sugar, fish sauce (or salt) and lime juice together. Add in the yogurt to make a loose mixture. Stir in chili and set aside.

For the egg ribbons: In a small skillet, heat 1 Tbsp. of oil. Add the beaten egg; swivel the pan until the egg is completely cooked. When the egg is cool enough to handle, lightly roll up and slice thinly to create egg ribbons. Set aside.

To make the Lucky 8 salad: Combine all of the salad ingredients together in a large bowl. Lightly stir through the peanut sauce; mix in the egg ribbons. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

Created for Redwood Hill Farm by Michelle Tchea, Asian food expert and cookbook author, My Little Soho Kitchen; Photo by Sabrina Modelle, The Tomato Tart