Maple Balsamic Vinaigrette Recipe

Here at the Green Mountain Mustard headquarters in beautiful Richmond, Vermont, we like to eat as healthy as possible (ok – we sneak the occasional whoopie pie or Ben and Jerry’s pint). The whole family eats a ton of salad during the week and as an alternative to buying commercial salad dressings, we have experimented with making our own. The following recipe is for a Maple Balsamic Vinaigrette recipe that we have tweaked a little bit. Enjoy it over fresh-picked greens from your CSA or over some good ol’ carrot sticks.

Maple Balsamic Vinaigrette Recipe

2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground pepper
1/4 cup maple syrup – we like Grade B for the rich maple flavor
1 T + 1 tsp of Green Mountain Maple Wholegrain Mustard
1/4 C Red Wine Vinegar
1 C vegetable oil (not olive oil) – we used canola oil.

Whisk ingredients together or use a blender – or a fun salad thing from Pampered Chef. Enjoy!

Garlic Bread with Grafton Village Garlic Cheddar

We posted a picture of the garlic bread that we made last week on our facebook page and the feedback was pretty good, so we thought we should probably post the recipe. While it came out incredibly tasty, the following recipe has a few changes to make it just a tad bit more awesome.

Here’s what you’ll need:

1 loaf of crusty Italian bread cut in half length-wise
1/4 cup olive oil
2 T dried oregano (or chopped fresh)
1 T dried pepper flakes
4 cloves of fresh garlic, minced
2 T Green Mountain Mustard – your favorite variety (we used Sweet Hot)
1/2 round of Grafton Village Garlic Cheddar Cheese – shredded

1. Cut bread load length-wise
2. In a glass dish, mix the olive oil, mustard, and garlic together with a spoon or whisk
3. Spread this mixture on both sides of the bread with a pastry brush
4. Shred the cheese and put it on top of the olive oil and mustard mixture
5. Sprinkle the red pepper flakes and oregano on top of the cheese
6. Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes.

Note: You may need to put your oven in broiler mode to melt the cheese a little more.

Enjoy!

Gearing up for Holiday Sales

On a recent trip to Costco I found that they had already re-merchandised two aisles to get ready for holidays sales. The huge boxes of wrapping paper and bows adorned one aisle, while the large candy boxes of Lindt chocolates and Ferrero Rocher were stacked high on a pallet in the other aisle. I’m not ready for the holidays at all (I really just want to enjoy the fall temperatures, leaves falling, and apple anything right now), but here at Green Mountain Mustard we’ve been focused on the holidays for about a month already.

We have purchased boxes for our gift packs of big jars and mustard shots, and Boxes of Awesome if you order a single jar as a gift. It’s a time of year that I have never really been fully involved with – people don’t normally buy energy bars for Christmas presents, but we’ve had a ton of people buy our Vermont mustard as gifts.

We’re signed up for craft fairs and festivals almost every weekend through the middle of December. I’ll have the chance to do my Christmas shopping at all of these shows, so the show serves two purposes now! For a list of shows we’ll be at click here.

It’s going to be a crazy few months for us at Green Mountain Mustard, but we hope that you’ll come out to a show or two, say hi, taste some mustard, and get some gifts for friends and family.  See ya!

Michael