These Raspberry Linzer Cookies that I’m sharing with you today are pretty special. First of all, I’ve loved Linzer Cookies forever, but this was my first time making them. I don’t know why I was always intimidated by the process of making Linzer cookies, but I’m so happy to discover that I was just silly. They are just as easy as any other cookies to make and taste so good!

Secondly, these cookies are from a beloved cookbook on my bookshelf, The Dairy Good Cookbook. This past month I’ve been working with my friends at Midwest Dairy to photograph their holiday card. As a part of that project, I was introduced to The Dairy Good Cookbook, a cookbook full of amazing comfort food recipes from America’s Dairy Farm Farmers. The more I worked with the recipes in this cookbook, the more I loved it. In fact, last week several recipes on our weekly meal plan were from The Dairy Good Cookbook. This book is packed with over 100 family favorite recipes the dairy farmers feed their own families. It’s a treasured collection, and one that will definitely become a part of my family’s meals for years to come. …

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The Moo Moo Shake isn’t the next dance craze. It is, however, a delicious fruity tasting milkshake creation which is a favorite of Lynda Foster, a dairy farm owner/operator my kids and I had the pleasure of spending a morning with earlier this summer.

Thanks to my partnership with The Midwest Dairy Association, the kids and I were able to strike “Visit a Dairy Farm” off of our 2013 summer bucket list.

We woke up, not so bright eyed and busy tailed, at 5:30am to head to Fort Scott Kansas, home of Foster Dairy. We made it to Foster Dairy in time for the final milking at 8:30am. At that point, the Foster’s had already been up and milking since 4:30am. My kids knew right then and there not to complain about being tired! …

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