I woke up this morning and came down to my office. I should have done yoga. I should have meditated. Instead, I fixed my attention on the woodstove. It’s late May, for Pete’s sake, I shouldn’t need a fire. But I couldn’t stop shivering. I stumbled through the dark outside until I had some kindling […]
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One Chicken, Three Meals
A single whole chicken, used correctly, will generate several meals By Shannon Hayes Pardon the pun, but the one cut of meat I am most likely to see a new customer “bawk” at is a whole chicken. Our price for whole birds last year was over $6/lb, 35% less than a pound of grassfed ground beef. […]
Health Lessons from a Local Diet
For nearly 20 years now, I’ve been fully immersed in the local food movement, investigating and promoting the ways that it helps to heal the earth, build community resilience, improve local relationships, enable healthier partnerships between humans and livestock, and improve our well-being. That last attribute has been an interesting sticking point for our family […]
12 Books for the Holidays
With Christmas right around the corner, a few of you may be looking for some possible gift ideas, while others of you might be looking for some good suggestions for library books to check out during your holiday break. The real cheap skates among you may even be looking for library book suggestions that you […]
Sirloin Tip: Juicy Steak for Lean Times
Sirloin Tip: Juicy Steak for Lean Times August 15, 2012 Tags: grassfed cooking, Tuesday Post Just a few weeks remain before the release of my newest cookbook, Long Way on a Little, which focuses on helping home cooks stretch their meat dollars as far as possible. Perhaps it is a reflection of these hard economic […]
Nothing Says Love Like Filet
Love me tender…with the tenderest of cuts February 14, 2012 In the fifteen years Bob and I have been together, we’ve figured out how to orchestrate the perfect romantic evening. Flowers and chocolates were long ago dismissed. Jewelry goes largely unappreciated. Fancy restaurants or elegant stays in romantic B&Bs are over-rated. An amorous evening for […]
When A Farmer Hops Off The Fence
When an email from the group Food Democracy Now! landed in my inbox last week, asking farmers to occupy Wall Street, it seemed only right that I notify the subscribers of GrassfedCooking—a free monthly e-newsletter I run for other farmers of grassfed meats—and ask that they consider joining. Some farmers, myself included, heeded […]
Newcomers’ Guide to Pastured Poultry
By Shannon Hayes Grassfedcooking.com New to the world of pastured poultry? Here are answers to some of the most frequently asked questions…. Spring rains are turning to summer showers, and all your friends are once more waxing poetic about the locally sourced treasures from the farmers’ market: fiddleheads, asparagus, wild ramps, fresh salad greens, snap […]
Super Slow Roasting
Techniques and recipes for guaranteeing tender meat from the toughest cuts of beef
Prudent Carnivore: Bringing Home the Back fat
Rendering and cooking with lard
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