News from Alderspring Ranch, with an occasional rant about American agriculture
Christmas Dinner. Just those words evoke images of red and green table cloths, sparkling china (the best) and candles amidst greenery at the centerpiece. Maybe a turkey, ham or prime rib roast with all the trimmings as the main course.
What about on Alderspring?
This year we had Christmas dinner at our older friends, Gordon and Auntie [...]
Photo courtesy of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
A beef shank makes the most amazing stock and stew you could imagine. Since I am a busy (maybe lazy) cook with lots of people to feed, I use shortcuts when I can. Here’s an easy stew made with beef shanks. No marinating, [...]
Last week I had a town trip planned. Town trip days are a big deal because we live over an hour from town, and a town day pretty much shoots the whole day.
I like to plan ahead, but Glenn often can’t…so, as happens not infrequently, he told me the night before the town day [...]
This site doesn’t distinguish grass fed beef recipes, like we do on Alderspring, but All Recipes hosts over 40,000 recipes submitted by home cooks, reviewed by home cooks. You can search by main ingredient or class of dish. While many of the recipes are typical church cookbook type (e.g., using canned cream-of-something soup), there is [...]
The spring weather has us thinking of camping and about cooking outdoors. This is a fun steak to make while camping or picnicking because the steak is placed directly on hot coals to cook. You can premix the marinade at home. Use hardwood for the fire to make clean coals.
Large corn or [...]
People are always asking me how to grill a ribeye. Americans pride themselves on being steak eaters, so we ought to be experts, right? In fact, I think folks ruin more steaks than they grill right. Here are some easy hints:
Buy a thermometer. We get quick read digital thermometers for [...]
