The Dorffs Rep Mount Royal Light at The Color Run Milwaukee

Guest Blogger: Deb

My husband and I started drinking Mount Royal Light a year ago. Mount Royal Light is perfect for an Old Fashion; it is smooth and has less alcohol content. We are big Packer fans and like to have a shot when they score a touchdown. We came up with the perfect shot, Maple infused Mount Royal Light Rye Whisky. Mix 2 parts Mount Royal Light Rye Whisky with 1 part pure Maple Syrup; you have to use the best pure Maple Syrup you can buy. We mix a batch up about 3 months prior to football season, store it in the refrigerator, shake it up once a week and by first game it is ready!

I am attaching a few photos, one of me enjoying a Mount Royal Light Old Fashion at the 21 Gun Saloon in Denmark, WI and a few pictures of our family’s After Bender Golf outing, named so because it is the day after Johnsonville’s Pretzel Bender festival. For the past 10 years we have had a family golf outing on the first Tuesday after the 4th of July. This year we had a total of 28 people, 18 golfers and 10 that came to join us for lunch. We all enjoyed using and showing off our cool Mount Royal Light golf towels!

-Guest blog by Deb B. from Sheboygan

 

It’s a Family Affair

As promised in my last post, From the Kitchen of Grandma Olive, here are some pictures from this weekend! Click on the thumbnail image to see a bigger photo. There were 44 total touque pies made, 32 large and 12 small. Lots of the family participated, family members of all ages! I still want to hear about your family traditions!

Rolling dough with lots of flour!

Grandpa filling the pies with meat

“It’s-a pizza pie-a!”

Baking the pies

Checking on the pies

Some of the 44 pies made

More of the 44 pies made

From the Kitchen of Grandma Olive

Every year my family makes what we call touque (took-kay) together for the holiday season. This year we’re having touque-making December 3rd! Touque is also called Tourtière which is French for “pie dish.” It is a meat pie that originated in Quebec, Canada (Woohoo Canada products represent!!) and is a traditional French-Canadian Christmas and New Year’s dish served at dinnertime.

Great-Grandma Olive

There is not one specific recipe for touque but my family uses a recipe my Great-Grandma Olive always used that has been passed-down for generations. Traditionally, you make a LOT of pies for the extended family the first week of December. Members from each family gather at the oldest mother’s home to help make the pies. My family makes 35-45 pies each year. The pies are then frozen and the first pie of the new batch cannot be eaten until Christmas morning. This recipe is for one pie.

 

**Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

 

SPECIAL SUPPLIES

• Pastry cutter or cuisinart with sharp blade to mix dough
• Cake tin (not a pie tin, sides on cake tins are higher & not slanted)
• Rolling Pin
• Blender to puree onion

INGREDIENTS FOR MEAT

• 1 pound coarsely ground pork (if they don’t have ground pork, ask the butcher for pork shoulder and have them ground it for you)
• 1/6 of a large onion
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon pepper
• 1 cup water

DIRECTIONS TO MAKE MEAT
Puree onion in blender. Add correct amounts of meat, onion, water, salt and pepper. Cook on stove and add more water if there is not enough juice after evaporating. There should be about 2/3 meat and 1/3 juice after cooked.

INGREDIENTS FOR DOUGH

• 1 cup flour
• 1 (rounded) tablespoon Crisco
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/3 cup ice-cold water

DIRECTIONS TO MAKE DOUGH
Blend dry ingredients first with cuisinart or pastry cutter. Then add wet ingredients until mixture forms into a ball. Roll out a bottom crust (about 1/4 inch thick) of dough to cover inside of cake tin. Trim extra dough off sides after pinching around rim of tin. Roll the top crust, also about 1/4 inch thick, to lay over the top of the tin.

DIRECTIONS TO FINISH

• Fill cake tin about 2/3 full with meat and juice
• Cover meat with top crust. Pinch top crust to bottom crust around the rim of tin.
• Trim off the extra pie crust.
• Bake at 400 degrees until edges are slightly browned (about 20-30 minutes)
• Let it cool.
• Cover with tinfoil or put in large Ziploc bag
• Freeze until ready to eat.
• Reheat in oven at 350 degrees F for 1 hour uncovered before eating.

I’ll try to get some pictures posted of my amazing family making touque this weekend. It is quite the production considering there are over 40 of us (Including aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents!) What are some of your family traditions? I want to hear all about them in the comments!

And the Winner is…

Kerry Darling, sales representative for the GB Oshkosh Spirits Division won the “Who is Your Favorite GB Staff Member?” contest! There were 45 votes for him! Congratulations Kerry!

Kerry Darling was voted General Beverage’s favorite employee by Mount Royal Light’s Facebook fans with 45 votes! Here’s a little “get-to-know-you” bit for those of you who don’t know Kerry! Mount Royal Light did a quick interview for your entertainment and it’s easy to see why he’s the favorite!

Mount Royal Light: What is your position with General Beverage?
Kerry Darling: I am a sales representative in the Spirits Division.

MRL: How many years have you been with GenBev?
KD: Just over 3 years.

MRL: What is your favorite part about working with GenBev?
KD: I really enjoy interacting with customers on & off premise, especially when showing new products.

MRL: What is your favorite drink?
KD: Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey with lemonade.

MRL: Have you tried Mount Royal Light? If so, how do you like to drink it? If no, when will you be trying it for the first time?
KD: Yes I have tried Mount Royal Light. I enjoy it in an old fashioned with sour soda.

MRL: If you won $1 million, what would you do with it?
KD: Family is very important to me, so first of all I would take care of any of their needs. I would donate some to some charities I already have in mind. Plans after that would be a nice vacation with my wife, destination Tahiti!!!!!!!

MRL: If you were a Skittle, what color/flavor would you be and why?
KD: I’d create a mystery color/flavor, to make Skittles even more fun.

MRL: Do you have any hidden talents?
KD: I make all kinds all fantastic soups (thanks Grandma)

MRL: Anything else you’d like to share about yourself, your job or your life!?
KD: Just that I’m grateful for having a loving and healthy family.

Big thank you to Nick Lewis who came in 2nd with 36 votes! You are awesome!! 🙂