Amazing milk is Legendairy, with Karen Martini
Milk is amazing stuff, legendairy if you will. It’s packed with important fats and vitamins that growing kids need – an easy way to access calcium, B vitamins 2 and 12, iodine and protein (for starters).
Immi (10) and I were lucky to be invited along recently to share the kitchen with a group of fellow bloggers and Karen Martini.
Milk is literally saturating the news at the moment so it is an interesting time to be talking dairy – and just how important it is to include dairy in kids diets every day. The amount starts at 1.5 serves for toddlers all the way through to 3 serves for teenagers. And the trick is to stick to the healthy stuff (we aren’t fussed about fat content, given much of the fat in dairy, if you don’t have too much, is actually good for you) and avoid sugar loaded ice-creams and yogurts.
Karen ran us through a few of her favourite recipes – first up was bechamel sauce (which we later enjoyed as part of our lunch in Karen’s lasagne! #yummmm). Then Karen whipped up a batch of her favourite scones (which we got to snack on whilst we were cooking) and finally she took us through her recipe for Ricotta Hot Cakes – which Immi (with a little help from me) took much pride in making. Karen’s Ricotta Hot Cake recipe can be downloaded here if you’d like to try them at home.
We have five of Karen Martini’s favourite cookbook, “Feasting”, to give away. Valued at RRP $31 each and filled with delicious and wholesome recipes.
This competition is now closed. Congratulations to Cherie, Carmel, Charlene, Slobodanka and Alison.
Five winners will be randomly drawn from a hat after 10pm on Wednesday 8 June 2016. Entrants must reside in Australia, can only enter once and must be subscribed to Meetoo (subscribe here).
For more recipe ideas visit karenmartini.com and The Dairy Kitchen
My kids love smoothies with milk, banana, berries and honey. Delish.
My son loves to drink a big glass of milk, and I add Milo to my daughters and warm it up its great to know they are both getting all the great nutrients from milk.
Squeezy yoghurts are a brilliant treat for my kids when we go shopping
Berry smoothies are the best !
As an upcoming nutritionist ,We recommend full cream milk as they tend to add not so great things to the light or no fat dairy such as sugars and fillers .
Yoghurt is the new cream for my family. I use it in salad dressings, quiche, muffins, pancakes and curries and we have it on top of cereal for breakfast or with poached fruit for dessert. Yum.
Diary is he one food group my kids actually all consume. From yoghurt to cheese, to milk, I never have any troubles in that department. Veggies and meat however, are another story!
I make fruity milkshakes for my children. Just some fruit, milk, yoghurt and ice. They love it!
Our kids love creamy pasta, the sauce of which we make with low fat cream and lots of milk!
My son loves to eat Bircher Muslie or Porriage for breakfast. And enjoys yogurt or cheese for afternoon snacks or desert.
The giant dork I am, I love to make yoghurt and have taught the kids how to as well. We love food science! Other than that a nice tall glass of ice cold milk or warm milk with honey always hit the spot.
From hot chocolates, to iced milk drinks of all sorts, we have cereal as a snack, natural yoghurt as side dish to meals, but a love of cheese certainly helps!
always a winner at our house too 🙂
Karen’s recipes are easy to replicate and fun to eat. Would love her book.
The way I incorporate dairy in my kids’ diet is by including cheese in their lunch boxes. They absolutely love it.
cheese and hot chocolate (not necessarily together, but a cheese toasty and a mug of hot chocolate is great on a cold winters weekend)
Hot chocolates, especially coming up to winter it is easy to convince them to enjoy a hot drink with mum!
My girls love to have a warm milk with a little milo on a cold day!
Warm porridge on a cold night – cooked with milk, topped with cream and brown sugar.
I organise Mad Milkshake Days. Their friends come over and create different flavours of milkshakes. Then they rate them as to which is most popular!
I drown my daughters Weetbix in milk and let it soak for ages so it absorbs most of the milk, then I add more!
My kids love a hot chocolate on a cold night. Nothing fancy, Milo does the trick 🙂
Porridge made with milk. Cereal with milk. Or fruit with greek yoghurt. Cheese stick in lunchbox. Cheese slice in lunch. Cup of milk with afternoon tea. Pasta with cheese. Bechamel in lasangne or as top layer of pasta bake. With cheese on top. Homemade custard for dessert. Lots of dairy!
A fave in our house is a Lassie. A traditional drink from India made with yoghurt and a bit of milk.
Chia, banana, cacao powder = yum smoothie mix, great to also freeze in Summer so life becomes ex-SEED-ingly super powered
Letting our toddler pour his own and serve his older brothers in our mini ‘special’ glasses makes sharing milk extra good.
My kids love to drink milk straight. It is their drink of choice to accompany meals and snacks!
Sugar free pikelets for school morning tea (with an extra 1/2 cup milk added to the recipe.)
My kids love a big glass of milk every day!
My 7 y.o twin girls enjoy a glass of plain milk with a slice of homemade banana bread featuring buttermilk in the recipe 🙂
Milo on a cold winters morning before a footy game, or an ice cold fruit banana or berry smoothie on a hot summers day. Nothing better….
My kids love crepes so I make them on the weekends. Easy enough for my teenager to do as well. Filled will ricotta and fruit. It’s a winner.
Buttered toast with eggs, bacon & melted cheese on top with a cup of warm milk.
Making yoghurt and fruit ice pops. They are so good on a summers day.
The kids have a smoothie Cam loves LSA, yoghurt and mangoes/blueberries and Elizabeth loves the same but. Banana fan. Great for them to get through to finner
My kids have a banana smoothie for breakfast every morning. No bran, no other fruit, just banana and milk!!
We cook oats with milk for breaky on cold mornings 🙂
Aside from the standard milk with cereal, smoothies with yoghurt, mac & cheese etc, an old go to is red lentil soup with cream cheese stirred through. It’s a family favourite.
too cute!
My daughter loves to have her version of a ‘cup of tea’ each night before bed – it’s simply warmed milk. She gets dairy and a good nights sleep!
Claire be sure you enter the giveaway then (by answering the question)
My kids love to get stuck into a big wheel of “sticky” cheese.
I love her style of cooking. Id be wrapped to receive a copy