I’ve written before about our friend Craig Goldwyn and his Amazing Ribs website. Here is his great recipe for potato salad. ——————————————— “It is better to be looked over than overlooked.” Mae West Easily overlooked, a good potato salad is the perfect foil for barbecue. And yup. This is the stuff. Just like Mom made [...]
By Jayne Clark, USA TODAY TAYLOR, Texas — In the rolling prairies of central Texas, three topics are likely to get you into a fight: politics, religion and barbecue. But even opposing factions who reach accord on the first two topics might find it tough to agree on a subject that ignites fierce passions in [...]
When I moved to New Mexico one of the first thing I discovered were green chile burgers. Yum! I’m lucky that a great restaurant near our home, the Bobcat Bite owned by friends John and Bonnie Eckre, specializes in green chile burgers. The Bobcat Bite has been rated by several gourmet food magazines and writers [...]
You’re starting to see Flat Iron Steak on more restaurant menus. In the North American Meat Processor (NAMP) meat buyers guide, it is item #1114D Beef Shoulder, Top Blade Steak. The NAMP lists it as the second most tender cut, after the Tenderloin, and followed (in order) by the Top Sirloin Center-Cut, the Ribeye and [...]
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Migas are the Mexican version of scrambled eggs with crispy fried corn tortilla chips mixed in. There are plenty of variations, but one hard-and-fast rule is that you can’t use flour tortillas – that’s not authentic! Use yellow or white corn tortillas. 10 yellow or white corn tortillas vegetable oil 12 eggs, beaten 1/2 teaspoon [...]
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Did you know that four beef packing companies control 85% of the market? – Tyson Foods in Arkansas is the biggest player in the US beef market with 107,000 employees and $26 billion in sales. They are the second-largest food production company in the Fortune 500. – Cargill Meat Solutions has 159,000 employees and $116 [...]
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In recent years several companies have worked with ranchers to “brand” high quality beef. The companies then can sell the highest possible quality beef products to consumers through stores and restaurants. One of the most innovative has been the Harris Ranch Partnership for Quality program. Beef producers have to keep detailed records on each cow, [...]
Cal Siegfried of Cornerstone Cattle Company leads a discussion with some of the country’s top restaurant chefs on the importance of cow & calf operation practices to great tasting beef. If you have problems seeing the video below click HERE.
Singer Toby Keith is most famous for his country song of the 1990′s “Should’ve Been A Cowboy” but he also has a favorite recipe. Oklahoman Toby Keith was a rodeo athlete in high school and rode bulls and broncs but not as a professional. He formed a band, spent time in Nashville but his career [...]
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One of my wife’s friends, Craig Goldwyn, shares her professional photography interests but I like his love of everything beef. He’s currently writing a book which will be called Amazing Ribs. Craig has a wonderful website called, not surprisingly, amazingribs.com, that has history, recipes, cooking tips, buyers guides, links and clothing. And you can subscribe [...]
From Wikipedia: “Kobe beef (神戸ビーフ) refers to beef from the black Tajima-ushi breed of Wagyu cattle, raised according to strict tradition in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Kobe beef is renowned for its flavour, tenderness, and fatty well-marbled texture. Kobe beef can be prepared as steak, sukiyaki, shabu shabu, sashimi, teppanyaki and more. “The Wagyu cattle that [...]
H. Allan Nation, editor of The Stockman Grass Farmer, has an interesting column in the September 2009 issue about cooking beef. Turns out that prior to World War II almost all beef was boiled. It was easy to do, you could cook the entire animal the same way and it helped remove any bad flavors [...]
I’m a little late for Earth Day but the stew sounds great! If you have problems seeing the video below click HERE.
If you like BBQ like I do you’ll love the Salt Lick Bar-B-Que Restaurant outside of Austin, Texas in Driftwood. As I’m writing this my mind can easily recall the smell and the taste. Thanks to our daughter Chandra for first introducing us to the Salt Lick back in the early 1990s. Yum! This is [...]
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