It's pretty simple. We've been milking our cats. By Christmas we hope to have enough milk to make the pudding for the Trifle using "cat milk." The end.
Just kidding.
Some of you will find this strange, but here in the U.S. all raw milk I have ever purchased has been labeled with "for cats & dogs only." When we lived in Germany, the kids would go to the farmer to get our milk in a lil' milk pail. Raw milk. Fresh from the cow. When we lived in Chicago-suburbia, we encountered the "for cats & dogs only" for the first time. I remember just putting the milk in the fridge. I knew why it was labeled as such. Noah didn't read the label until he went for the 2nd glass & exclaimed, "Oh my gosh! Mom!!! I just drank the wrong milk!" So funny! Even my kids thought it was weird that such labeling needs to take place. The government lets us smoke cigarettes, but we can't drink raw milk? Yeah. They are really concerned about our health, huh? Anyhoo.
Last autumn a family had gifted me with a CSA from Farm to Family - raw milk included. Brent thought it was the oddest thing that the milk had to be labeled in that way & we jokingly started calling it "cat milk." "A bit more 'cat milk' with my coffee, please?!" "Yummy. Cookies & 'cat milk.'" When Brent & I went to my Mom's house for Christmas, we took ingredients to make a Trifle - organic & from scratch. Of course we weren't going to let that "cat milk" go to waste. I remember Brent saying, "New Zealand Trifle must be made with 'cat milk'" when we prepared it in my Mom's kitchen. My family was bewildered, but they ate it. They probably thought the liberal use of Sherry outdid the potential traces of "cat milk" they might consume...
So, as I was just thinking about Christmas in one of my sentimental moments, I thought of "Cat Milk Trifle." We must have "Cat Milk Trifle" with Christmas dinner!
Signed,
8 comments:
I wish it was that easy to get raw milk here in New Zealand. I've only found one place in Christchurch that sells it and it's expensive to get. I really need to find a friendly dairy farmer.
i thought it was unsafe to drink milk straight from a cow these days, i guess it was that trip to the diary factory at primary school that made me think that!!!
dairy!! not diary lol
I've found an organic dairy farmer down the road who sells me raw milk straight from his vat. Fabulous stuff. Hope the wave you are riding at the mo is ebbing.x
Funny story :-)
Hugs...
Ditto to Miss Lottie, in fact its the same farmer! The taste is nothing comapared to the rubbish that is given to us at the supermarket and the cream...Oh the cream! At least a quarter of the bottle, yum, yum yum! Yes it is expensive, but $3L is still cheaper than the non-homogenised organic milk at the supermarket, and its local, A2 dominant and FRESH! Hmm, do I sound slightly obsessed...
Anyway, hugs to you xx
when I was pregnant with my daughter I used to get my mild straight from the dairy. she has the best teeth ever! And she is a strong, healthy 19 year old. Raw milk while pregnant you should of heard everyone. OMG I even ate soft cheese! I must be a bad mother. lol
Raw milk at the organic markets here is labelled 'for cosmetic purposes only'. I guess if we didnt LOVE the taste so much we could always bathe in it?
I like the point you make about the government labelling re milk and cigarettes.. its crazy huh?
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