Dot

It’s official - Beryl wins Ready, Steady, BLEAT competition!

Posted on 25/10/2011 by Dot

Ok ladies, gents and goats – drum roll please....

I’ve spent all week counting, checking and re-checking the number of re-bleats for Ethel’s Moroccan Spiced Goats Cheese Meze and Beryl’s Rocket, Olive, Sunblushed Tomato and Goats Cheese Pizza recipes...sounds pretty straightforward, but it’s pretty hard when you’ve only got hooves for hands!

Before I announce the winner, I want to give an official bleat-out to the girls who, in my humble opinion, goatally saved their best recipes ‘til last. The herd and I really hope you love them as much as we do – and that you will carry on cooking and sharing them with fellow your Capricorn® Goats Cheese fans after the competition has wrapped up.
Speaking of – without further ado, it is with great pride that I goatficially announce the overall winner of the Capricorn Goats Cheese Ready, Steady, Bleat recipe competition is.....#capricornhot!
 CONGRATULATIONS BERYL! This formally, officially and unequivocally makes you the ultimate, bestest, greatest goat chef in all of Somerset!
Beryl, you have my permission to spend the next few weeks gloating about your win – but heed my warning: Ethel’s going to be cheesed off as it was horn to horn all the way. In fact, for two of the five competition weeks the humans voted her #capricorncold the most delish, so don’t get too carried away! 
A huge thanks goes out to all our supporters who have been following us, trying our recipes and re-bleating to show your support. It’s one thing for us to come up with these recipes, but an entirely different feeling to know they’ve been tried and tested by humans :)  
Thanks to all the bloggers and bleaters who have got involved – we’ve made lots of lovely new foodie friends!

We’ll still be bleating our thoughts regularly, so see you kids on Twitter! 

@DotTheGoat, @EthelTheGoat and @BerylTheGoat

 

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Beryl

My 5th and final recipe - Rocket, Olive, Sunblushed Tomato and Capricorn® Goats Cheese Pizza!

Posted on 13/10/2011 by Beryl

It’s the final week! I can smell victory – and it smells like yummy, gooey, melted goats cheese!

My well-deserved win last week makes it two wins a piece to me and Ethel, so we’ll be horn to horn in the final.
Now I don’t want to be called a bad sports-goat, but Ethel should probably be disqualified following her outrageous recipe submission last week - her #capricorncold Goats Cheese and Creamed Leek Tart actually needed to be cooked in an oven for a whole five minutes. Hardly a cold recipe was it?!

Anyway, I won despite her cheating and I’m going to take my winning streak all the way to the final. I’ve goatally been saving the best ‘til last – here’s my Rocket, Olive, Sunblushed Tomato and Capricorn® Goats Cheese Pizza!

Serves 2

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 6-8 minutes
Ingredients
        1 x 100g Capricorn® Goats Cheese
        2 ready-made pizza bases
        125g tomato passata
        ½  red onion, sliced into rings
        80g sun-blushed tomatoes
        A handful of rocket
        A handful of pitted black olives
        Olive oil
        Sea salt
        Freshly ground black pepper
 
Method
1.       Cover the pizza bases with a layer of tomato passata and add the rocket.
2.       Add the sun-blushed tomatoes and scatter the red onion rings over the top.
3.       Dice the Capricorn® Goats Cheese and sprinkle over, then finish off with a handful of black olives.
4.       Season with salt and pepper.
5.       Place the pizza in the middle of a pre-heated oven and cook at 180°C for 6-8 minutes.

6.       Serve with extra rocket as desired and a drizzle of olive oil.

 

 

 

 

Per serving: 722 calories, 28g fat (10g saturated fat)
Perfect for sharing, and on the table in just 10 minutes, it’s already been enjoyed by my friends @utterlyscrummy, @lazzza65 and @BernieJMitchell. Try it and let me know how you get on. It would be AMAZING to prove once and for all that hot goats cheese rules!!
So come on, re-bleat to make #capricornhot the overall recipe Ready, Steady, Bleat! competition WINNER!!
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Ethyl

My Moroccan Spiced Capricorn® Goats Cheese Meze for the win!

Posted on 13/10/2011 by Ethel

Exciting times, kids – we’re into the fifth and final week of the Capricorn® Ready, Steady, Bleat competition! Beryl has spent the past couple of days gloating about her latest #capricornhot win, but she’s really gone too far this time by saying I cheated!

Our trusted friend and adjudicator, Dot, has assured me that my baaa-eautiful Goats Cheese and Creamed Leek Tart did not break any rules. Even though it needed five minutes in the oven, it was served chilled so Beryl can herd off!
Even though I didn’t cheat, it seems you preferred Beryl’s gnocchi recipe – so now we’re in for a goatally thrilling final week. We’re hoof to hoof with two wins each, so the winner of week five will be crowned ultimate champion of the Capricorn® Goats Cheese recipe competition!

My final recipe is a bit of a risk, but I’m hoping you will love it. It’s a Moroccan Spiced Capricorn® Goats Cheese Meze! 

Serves 2

Preparation time: 5 minutes
 
Ingredients
        2 x100g Capricorn® Goats Cheese
        1-2 teaspoons of Moroccan tagine spices
        50g houmous
        80g marinated olives
        2 mini flatbreads
        Lemon oil or olive oil
        Sea salt
        Freshly ground black pepper
 
Method
1.       Cut each of the Capricorn® Goats Cheese in half and dip into the Moroccan spices. Place onto a meze board.
2.       Add the houmous and olives to the board.
3.       Chargrill the flatbreads for 2-4 minutes, place on the board.

4.       Serve with a little olive/ lemon oil in a dipping pot.

 

 

  

Per serving: 537 calories, 39g fat (20g saturated fat)
 
Could be a fancy starter to share or a meal for one, either way it’s deeeeelish. The Moroccan flavours work perfectly with the creamy goats cheese, and it’s ready in just five minutes!
It would be wonderful if I proved to Beryl that #capricorncold rules, so if you like the recipe, please re-bleat and help me take the number one spot as head goat chef at Somerset!
Ready...steady...BLEAT!
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Flo

Things You May Not Have Herd!

Posted on 12/05/2011 by Flo

We’re on a very simple mission – to get more people eating and enjoying our goats cheese.  

Myself, Beryl, Ethel, Dot and Eva can baaaaa-rely contain our excitement as this month we go on tour, campaigning for the nation to use more goats cheese when cooking, preparing a cheeseboard or looking for the perfect pairing for their favourite cracker.  

The girls and I have butted our heads together to share some amazing goats cheese facts.  Enjoy!

  1. Lower in cholesterol.  Goat’s milk has smaller fat globules than cow’s milk – meaning Capricorn Goats Cheese is lower in cholesterol whilst just as rich in calcium, an excellent source of quality proteins!
  2. The perfect substitute.  Goats cheese is a fabulous alternative for those unable to tolerate cow’s milk.
  3. For the sleepy heads.  Tryptophan, one of the essential amino acids contained in Capricorn Goats Cheese, has been shown to reduce stress and induce sleep.
  4. Variation is the spice of life.  Different breeds of dairy goat produce their own unique flavour of milk – which is why Capricorn Goats Cheese, made from the milk of goats that graze on the lush dairy pastures of Somerset, is so creamy and full of flavour!
  5. Hearty seafarers.  Goats are good on the water, so in the past they accompanied sailors at sea for months at a time – making them the firm favourite for milk supplies on long voyages.  Ahoy there matey!


Some of the girls are on Twitter too! You can follow @BeryltheGoat, @EtheltheGoat or @DottheGoat to stay up to date with all the goat gossip.

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Eva

London Totally Rocks!!!

Posted on 17/05/2011 by Eva

Goats On Tour is still going on in Soho Square and it’s been such an amazing day! I feel like a little celeb! Bleat!


Lots of humans have popped down to say hello and enjoy our delish goats cheese! London totally rocks!


Check out some of our bleats from the day so far:

  • Kind of hoping that I'm going to meet the Queen today! #bleat
  • Whoa!!! Just seen the biggest clock ever!!! #bleat #goatsontour
  • I've just seen TopShop! Omg! #bleat
  • There are lots of humans in London. Apart from the herd, I haven’t seen a single goat!? #bleat #GoatsOnTour
  • I only wear my special hat and goggles on special occassions such as #goatsontour #bleat

Follow me and the girls @ethelthegoat @berylthegoat @dotthegoat on Twitter if you can’t make it down to say hello!

 

 

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