Portuguese Roll-Ups

What an easy appetizer this turned out to be. If you like the taste combination of sweet with salt, you will LOVE this appetizer.  I first made these for a BBQ that we were going to, but they never made it because my family ate most of them before it was time to leave!

Ingredients needed:
30 pitted dates
bacon
toothpicks

Slice the bacon in half, length-wise. Wrap a date with a bacon strip and secure with a toothpick. Place all on a baking sheet and bake at 400 degrees for 8-10 minutes then turn and bake for another 8-10 minutes. Serve and enjoy!

before they go in the oven

Pin It

Recipes

Asian Noodle Salad

Just click on the title of the recipe you are interested in and it will take you to the correct page.
Enjoy!

Beverages

Arnold Palmer
Thermos Ready Smoothie
Chocolate-Raz Smoothie
Champagne Cocktail
Flavored Milk
Chocolate Covered Raspberry Martini
Melon Martini
Moose Milk Frozen Cocktail
Sangria by Guy Fieri
Woo Woo



Appetizers / Party Food

Fennel & Chicken Flatbread
Healthier Southwestern Layered Bean Dip for tight ends
Healthy Black Bean Dip
Pear & Blue Cheese Flat Bread
Portuguese Roll Ups
Boneless Buffalo Wings with Spicy Blue Cheese Dip
Lettuce Wraps
Zucchini Parmesan Cakes



Salads

Asian Noodle Salad
Broccoli Salad
Taco Salad



Side Dishes

Sweet Potato Fries
Tortilla Pie
Vegetable Fried Rice
Penne with Broccoli Rabe and Tomatoes and Parmesan



Entrees

Beef

Beef Short Ribs
Bistro Flank Steak Sandwich
Corned Beef - in a slow cooker
Eating Well Tacos
Flank Steak Pinwheels
Seared Steaks with Caramelized Onions and Gorgonzola
Grilled Filet Mignon with Herb Butter and Texas Toasts
Meatloaf Minis
Pizza
Provincial Beef Stew
Asian Beef and Broccoli Slaw Wraps
Sloppy Joes
TJ's Broccoli Beef
Tomato Herb Flank Steak
Beef & Bean Chili Verde


Poultry
BBQ Chicken Enchiladas
Beer in the Butt Chicken
Curried Turkey Cutlets with dried Apricots
Chicken Marinara
Chicken Parmesan Sub Sandwich
Chicken Teriyaki Skewers
Easy Gourmet Chicken
Gorganzola & Prune Stuffed Chicken
Healthier Fried Chicken

Pork

Maple-Chili Glazed Pork Medallions
Pulled Pork

Fish

Blackened Salmon Sandwich
Oven Fried FishOven Fried Fish



Vegetarian
Zesty Wheat Berry~Black Bean Chili
Sweet Potato Burrito
Pesto Pizza
Zucchini Parmesan Cakes

Pasta

Creamy Garlic Pasta with Shrimp & Veggies
Rigatoni with Meat Sauce
Asian Noodle Salad
Penne with Broccoli Rabe and Tomatoes and Parmesan



Breakfast

Apple Bacon Pancakes
Mexican Fiesta Bake
Monkey Bread
Quick Breakfast Tacos



Sweets

Bananas Foster
Bananas & Chocolate
Banana Layer Cake
Cherry Almond Crumble
Chloe's K-9 Cake
Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookies
Grilled Chocolate Sandwich
Healthier Carrot Cake
Lemon-Raspberry Muffins - low fat
Mini Molten Chocolate Cakes
Pear Bread Pudding
Pineapple & Raspberry dessert
Red Velvet Cupcakes
Strawberry Ice Cream



Other

Honey Butter
Herb Butter

Grilling Guidlines Chart Pin It

Wildlife Sightings & Pets

Funky Chicken
I have a Tweet for you!  Owls!
Stow Away Baby Barn Owl
More Baby Barn Owls
Busted!
Hoppity Hop~Baby Bunnies
Killdeer
Bit of Bad News on the Killdeer
Turkey Feathers
Big Fat Joey
The Return of Boss Hog~the Hummingbird
Deer Antlers
The Buck Stops Here
Poor Old Oak Tree Pin It

Events

The Emmy's & Temple Grandin
Art and Garden Festival
Pig Scramble
Dairy Day
From Teats to Feet and the Ugliest Dog
Vine and Barrel Portuguese and Spanish Wine Event
Chicken Escapee at the West Marin Fair
Novato Art & Wine Festival
Western Weekend & 500 Chicken Halves
Chloe's 1st 4-Wheeler Ride
Don't Try This At Home
Scotland Adventure~The Royal Highland Show
Scotland or Bust FFA Fundraiser
Working the American Graffiti Car Show
Butter and Eggs Festival
An Afternoon spent with Temple Grandin
Dairy Princess Ball
Redwood Empire Holstein Association Spring Event & Auction
Marin County Farm Bureau Annual Dinner
4-H Presentation Day
FFA Fundraiser Pin It

Cow Talk

Working the Calf Barn
Where's the Beef?
It's a Bull! It's a Bull! It's a Bull!
Recycle~Dairies Recycle Just About Everything! Poop Talk
Organic vs. Conventional Dairy
Freestall Barns
The Woods Behind the Lake
Behind the Scenes at a Colorado Feedlot
Brand New Calf
A Good Hand Sucking in the Morning
Our Biggest Delivery of the Year
An Afternoon at the Birthing Barn
Milk, Cola & the Strength of your Bones
Leisure Time for Dairy Cows
New FAO Report on Dairy and Greenhouse Gases
Get the Skinny on Butter Facts
Calves Out to Pasture
How a Calf is Born
The Big Mooove~Our Beef
Eat Meat Mondays
Meat and Global Warming
Where's the Beef?
Bulls Feeling Frisky
The Futureof Dairy
National Ag Week
Our New Bad Boy~New Holland
Fun Dairy Facts
Tips on Choosing Cheese
Dairy Myths vs. Fact
Is the milk you buy local?
How we finish up the Milking Day
Why do Bull Terrify Me?
Cows on the Loose
Happy Heifers and Baby Calves
What the Humane Society of the United States REALLY Stands For
A Visit by Water Quality Control
Bag Balm~Not just for Teats
The Hoof Trimmer
Guess how much sand we use and why
In response to the Nightline Story
What we feed our Cows
How Nutritious is Flavored Milk?
Cleaning the Calf Barn
Hormones in Milk?
Redwood Empire Holstein Association Dinner
Raw or Pasteurized Milk?
Vet Check
Get the Skinny on Lean Beef
The Dairy Judging Team
Dairy Goddess' Farm
Milking Time Pin It

Family/Misc.

Wrong Turn & Leftovers
Marin French Cheese Picnic Grounds
Day Trip to San Francisco
Playing Like a Tourist
Last Day of Farmers on Summer Vacation
Food of a Farmer's Summer Vacation
Farmers on Summer Vacation
Summer Home School
The 'New' Dairy Farm
From Generation to Generation
Grossi Dairy History
Date Night
All I wanted was Taco Shells and Beer + An Update on the Dirty Dozen
Mi Pueblo
My Arms Aren't Long Enough
Tractor Seats
Don't Try This At Home
How Does Your Garden Grow?
My New Ceramic Garlic Grater Plate
Tomales Bay-My Favorite Beach Area
Ribbons and Smiles
Slumber Party
Las Guitarras
An Afternoon at the Farmers Market
The Feel of Cotton & Shooting Lunch
Our West Marin Morning
Evil Little Thing
Ribbons & Floats
End of School Party
I believe we have a Budding Photographer
Pit Burning Party at Deer Camp
My Portuguese Heritage
Should I Be Worried?
Bryce's 4-H Cooking Assignment
Chloe turns a K-9 One
Where the Green Grass Grows
Horse & Rider Share Many Things
This Little Piggy
Bug Soup
First Bud of 2010
California Academy of Sciences
Organic~the Clean 15 and the Dirty Dozen
How old should you be to own a pocket knife?
Which is better Gas or Charcoal? Pin It

How To Subscribe

There are a few ways to follow The Wife of a Dairyman.  I've briefly described the methods below.

Subscribe by Follow:

Just click 'follow' in the right hand column and updated content from my site will then be sent to your reader (see below if you don't know what a 'reader' is).

Subscribe By RSS (reader):
Just below the comment section at the bottom of the page, click on 'posts' with the rss icon in front of it.  Then daily posts from The Wife of a Dairyman will be delivered to your feeder.  An RSS feeder keeps updated with the most recent content of a blog site you're following.
RSS is an easy way to keep up with updates from your favorite sites. Some of you may use bookmarks but the problem with using bookmarks is that you have to physically visit each site in order to check for updates which in turn can mean missing out on sites that update frequently, losing track with too many bookmarks, or seeing the same information on sites that update less often.

I won’t go in to too much detail about RSS but it’s basically a subscription.   When my site updates, you’ll see it in your RSS Reader or via email, depending on which method you choose.

Which RSS READER to use?
There are tons of rss readers out there but I recommend Google Reader, Bloglines, or even My Yahoo. I use Google Reader and find that it’s very user friendly.

When you subscribe to a blog (or any site that has RSS available) using Google Reader, you will see new, unread updates in bold. This makes it very easy to visually see what updates you need to read and it’s why I recommend this one.


Subscribe by EMAIL
Maybe RSS Readers aren’t convenient; that’s okay because you can get updates delivered straight to your Inbox!

Subscribe to The Wife of a Dairyman by email.  That way you won't miss a thing!  Just go to the 'subscribe by email' box located in the right hand column and enter your email address.  You will then receive an email with a link included that you will need to click on to verify your subscription.  It's that easy!  You will then receive an email when I update my site.

All of these readers and subscriptions are free to use for your convenience! Pin It

Senator Mark Leno letter

Pin It

Blogging For 'Agvocacy'

Our family dairy is located in Novato, CA, just north of San Francisco.

My family: Dominic, my husband, Bryce (5) and Paige (4).  Dominic is a 4th generation Dairyman.

This past December, we attended the CA Farm Bureau Annual Meeting in Anaheim.  Dominic sat in on a break-out session where Jeff Fowle, Ray Prock and Dino Giacomazzi spoke about the importance of farmers utilizing social media to tell their story.

A few days after returning home from the meeting, Dominic and I just happened to watch the movie Julie & Julia. 

Through Facebook I befriended  many farmers nation-wide.

And came in contact with the AgChat Foundation.  This past August I was fortunate to attend the AgChat Foundation Inaugaral Conference, held in Chicago.

Some blogging tips learned at the AgChat conference included:

• Do not become defensive....just explain.
• Talk about what makes your operation unique, but not at the expense of others in your industry.
• Keep the message simple if you're targeting a "non-ag" audience.
• Highlight the best parts of your farm/ranch & be honest & don't misrepresent it.
• Keep in mind you're shaping opinions as you share about your farm.  Always try to educate.
• Be creative & find new ways to attract followers & increase interaction.
• Message quality is far more important than audience size.
• Use different social media platforms to present a single message in a variety of ways.
• Use resources such as Farm Bureau, commodity checkoffs, National Dairy Council & other allied organizations for up-to-date "talking points" and advice.
• Never be afraid to try something new.
• Keep improving upon what works for you.

Pin It