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. […]
A Celebration of the Casserole
The following excerpt is taken from Shannon Hayes’ newest book, Long Way on a Little: An Earth Lover’s Companion for Enjoying Meat, Pinching Pennies and Living Deliciously. When I was in graduate school, I had the wonderful opportunity to interview school food service directors from around New York State. My most memorable conversation was with […]
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 […]
Getting Saucy: Stretching Your Meat Budget with Gravies and Reductions
By Shannon Hayes I’m not sure where it all started. Maybe it was back during the Norman Conquest. But no matter how you look at, in spite of their relative cooperation and neighborliness since the Crimean war, the French and the English still have a major long- running dispute: the best way to dress a […]
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 […]
Grassfed, Paleo and Weston Price
I’ve received a fair amount of personal communication from people asking me for my take on Paleo eating. I’ve stayed relatively quiet about the issue in my online postings because my family has had to endure some grueling health crises in the past year, and it has taken me some time to wrap my head […]
Grassfed Kabobs video
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 […]
How to cut up your pasture-raised chicken
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