May is for moms and we’re celebrating everything they give us—including their good looks. Send us your best mother-and-child look-alike photo and you could win a $300 shopping spree in the Tillamook Online Shop!

How to Enter:
1) “Like” Tillamook on Facebook!
2) Pose for a snapshot with your son, daughter, mom, or furry friend and show off your matching genes!
3) Upload your photo through the Tillamama & Me tab on Facebook.
4) Make sure to send us your entries between May 1 and May 23, 2013.

Vote for the winner:

After we pick 10 finalists, vote for your favorite look-alike photo from May 24 to May 30. Remember to cast a new vote every day to give your favorite look-alike photo the best chance of winning. The pic with the most votes will win $300 to spend on the Tillamook Online Shop! We’ll announce the winner on May 31, so stay tuned!

Please see the Official Rules for more details, or contact us with any comments or questions.

By Tillamook

Our team had such a great time at The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen in San Francisco, giving free grilled cheese to our fans in the area! Thanks to everyone who visited, and to everyone who entered our #Cheeseaholic Instagram photo contest. The winner is this ultra-cheesy, grilled cheese photo from @ob_ces_sivetraveler!

We wish we could have chosen every photo to win! Here are a few more of our favorites:

Follow @Tillamook on Instagram and share the #LoafLove with us!

By Katie

It wouldn’t be National Grilled Cheese Month without grilling up a few Cheese’wiches!
If you haven’t made your own Cheese’wich yet, what are you waiting for!?! You can make your own Cheese’wich using the Facebook app, or download the free app for Android or iPhone! Share your Cheese’wich with me on Facebook or on Twitter (don’t forget to tag @TillamookCheese)!
I loaf making Cheese’wiches of all of my friends! Can you guess which of the Loaf Life Bloggers these cheesy faces belong to!?!

Follow along with Tillamook on Pinterest as we celebrate National Grilled Cheese Month!

By Loafy

Looks like ‘Quincy’ has lots of Tillamook adventures! Especially when searching for Tillamook Mountain Huckleberry Ice Cream, Tillamook Wild Mountain Blackberry Ice Cream, and Tillamook Blueberry Cheesecake Ice Cream.

Thanks, S D Hill!

By Gillian

If you’re in Tillamook you can’t help but stop at the Cheese Factory! Our photographers David and Brin.

When we launched the new Tillamook.com at the end of January we also wanted to make sure we had new photos of Tillamook cows to share. They don’t naturally pose and smile at the camera, so how does one take pictures of our lovely Tillamook cows? It turns out that if you go into their pasture, they will come to you! They are curious creatures and like to checkout what’s going on – and that’s just what they did when we visited some Tillamook farms for a photo shoot!

Our photographer, Brin, started off far away from the cows.

Within minutes, they were sneaking closer to him!

She was really curious!

What a nice view of Tillamook the cows have in this pasture!

When you go out in the pasture, rubber boots help!

The sun shines down on Tillamook cows.

What farm is complete without a dog (or several) running around?

By Laura

For decades, we have been sharing with consumers delicious recipes featuring our Tillamook products. Nowadays it’s as easy as visiting our website to get the recipes. But decades ago, fans of our cheese would send away to the cooperative and wait for a booklet full of Tillamook Cheese recipes to be mailed to them.

According to our archives, we offered the recipe booklets as early as the late 1920s. Themed recipe pamphlets were also offered by mail and could be picked up at in-store sampling events (our pre-Loaf Love Tour days).

Flipping through the booklets takes you back in time to when… well, I’m not really sure since I wasn’t born yet, but I know it wasn’t a time of convenience items and microwaving. Some of the old recipes were family-favorites contributed by “Western homemakers” while others were recipes from “domestic science teachers.” Regardless of where the recipe came from, we knew even then that if you tried Tillamook Cheese you would love it.
Here’s a recipe from the “Streamlined Standbys” recipe pamphlet. It can be dated to the mid to late-1930s. Enjoy!

Individual Ham and Macaroni Loaves

Ingredients:

1 pound ground smoked ham scraps
½ pound ground lean pork
2 cups cooked macaroni
1 egg, beaten
3 cups Tillamook Cheese sauce

Instructions:
Combine ground ham and fresh pork thoroughly, then add macaroni and beaten egg. Pack into greased muffin tins and bake in moderate oven (375°F) for 45 minutes. Serve hot with Tillamook Cheese sauce over each loaf. (Made by adding 1 cup grated Tillamook Cheese to medium white sauce.) Makes 12 small loaves, enough for 6.

By Chandra

Two brothers agree: Tillamook Cheese is the yummiest!

Congratulations to Bill Barry of Washington for winning the 2010 Loaf Love Tour Photo Contest. Bill and his family will receive a year’s supply of Tillamook Cheese!

By Loafy