I was seized by an impulse to clean the deck this weekend and when the deck is fit to sit on, we want to eat there. Here’s one meal that requires little more than a bottle of wine: grilled local sausages consisting of a Italian rope delivered from the local dairy, plus brats and lamb [...]
Entries Tagged as 'beef'
What I had for Lunch
March 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Recipes
Cheese omelet with balsamic-glazed beef heart
preparation time: 15 minutes
shopping: none
I got distracted and missed breakfast so I made breakfast for lunch.
I love beef heart, not only because it tastes very much like beef tenderloin–just a little chewier–but because it is such a bargain. It comes from the grassfed herd at our local dairy, which charges [...]
Tongue Broth
January 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Recipes
I know, I am constantly singing the praises of the beef tongue we get from our dairy, South Mountain Creamery. Their beef herd is grassfed, and after brining the tongue for a week it is ridiculously delicious. But have I mentioned that we also love to drink the liquid we’ve cooked the tongue in?
Imagine a pot [...]
Grassfed Pot Roast
December 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Recipes, Sustainability
I hadn’t really known until recently, but the best reason to purchase grassfed beef over conventional may be pot roast.
This big piece of chuck was delivered from our dairy, South Mountain Creamery in Middletown, Maryland, which keeps a herd of beef cattle in addition to its dairy cows. The first thing you notice is the [...]
Oxtails And Friends
November 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Recipes, dinner
Some braised meat dishes are so rich they take your breath away. I place oxtails in that category. Richness dictates smaller portion sizes, which fits oxtail perfectly since this is one piece of meat that is mostly bone. Oxtail belongs to that group of odd bits that butchers in a bygone era would practically give away. [...]
Tags: beef·braise·entertaining·fall
Grassfed Beef: A Cosmic Convergence
November 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments · food news
How’s this for coincidence: I walked down to the Whole Foods yesterday to buy some pork tenderloin for a dinner party and who do I run into in front of the meat counter but Will Harris, beef farmer extraordinaire.
You might recall Harris from the terrific videoI linked to recently in which a camera crew followed [...]
Boiled Beef Tongue
October 31st, 2009 · 5 Comments · Recipes
Somewhere under all these vegetables is an entire beef tongue. If you’ve never seen one, you might be surprised. It’s really big. And, of course, it’s just the sort of thing to gross out 9-year-old daughter, who took one look at it sitting on the kitchen counter and ran out of the room screaming.
Seems I will be [...]
Kids Love Grass-Fed Beef
October 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Sustainability, kids
One way to improve school meals is to include more locally grown food, and apparently that doesn’t mean just local fruits and vegetables. In one school district in Oregon, they decided to switch out the commodity USDA burgers in the cafeterias with local, grass-fed beef and the results are now in: The kids loved it.
In [...]
Succulent Oxtail Stew
September 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Recipes
Oxtail–or tail of beef–is one of the most deeply flavorful of all meats, so I was thrilled to see it offered for delivery by our local dairy. Famous in oxtail soup, this is a cut you want to braise for a long time. Unctuous and soothing, oxtail matches perfectly with the root vegetables being harvested [...]
Tags: beef·braise·root vegetables·stew
Better Burger, No Bun
September 5th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Recipes, Wellness
If you are at all sensitive to carbohydrates, there’s no reason to spoil your Labor Day hamburger by smothering it in a bun. Nothing could be finer than a burger constructed of grass-fed beef from our local dairy, topped with grilled onion and a thick slice of Mortgage Lifter tomato from the garden. All we [...]
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
