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Recipe: Quick and Easy Homemade Taquitos

We have a serious soft spot for taquitos or rolled tacos. There's just something about their extra crunchy ends and tender meat filling with that little burst of spice and lime that gets us every t...

Product Review: Country Bob's All Purpose Sauce

Over the weekend we had the pleasure of testing out a sauce we've walked by many times in the grocery store, without even knowing it was there. Although we make most of our sauces at home, there are...

Recipe Recommendation: Beef Stroganoff

I always get so crestfallen when I see people making beef stroganoff using those powdered stroganoff mix packets. They're so unnecessary; you can make stroganoff from scratch rather easily, and it ta...

How To: Make Blank Slate Beef Jerky

Beef Jerky is a great way to get a little pick me up during your day and is a great take along snack for your summer road trips or backpacking adventures. Although it's protein packed and great fu...

Pain de Viande: Bison Meatloaf
Guest Post from Janice at Real Food Made Easy

Marion and her sister over at “She said, she said“ have been writing about nostalgic/comfort food such as tuna casserole and meat loaf. Well, that got me to hankering after meatloaf, so, what’s ...

How To: Calibrate Your Meat Thermometer

Outdoor cooking, especially cooking for a crowd can mean use of your trusty meat thermometer. But how do you really know the reading it's giving you is correct? Did you know you can calibrate them ...

How To: Grind Your Own Sausage

As Emma said earlier today, making your own sausage isn't as daunting as one might think. It allows you to control not only the flavor, but the fat and nutrient contents as well! Sausage makes even ...

How To Cure Corned Beef: The Final Results

Well, after a week of curing and a whole night in the slow cooker, there's my final plate of corned beef and cabbage. How did it turn out? Very pink, as you can see, thanks to those slightly suspiciou...

How To Cure Corned Beef: Time to Cook!

My home-cured corned beef has been sitting in its brine for a little over a week, and guess what? Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day, so it's time to pull out the corned beef and get it ready to cook. This...

Interview: Scott Stone of Yolo Land & Cattle Co.

As you know, we're big proponents of grass-fed beef. Beef is a big issue in the landscape of American food, and we can't reduce the complex issues down to a simplistic choice of grass-fed vs. grain-fe...

How To Make Corned Beef: An Update

I embarked on a meat-curing project earlier this week, starting up a batch of corned beef, which should be ready to be cooked after a week of curing in its brine. I was curious to see how it looks at ...

National Food Roundup: Meat/Un-meat
From Nationwide Newspaper Food Sections 03.11.09

Omnivore? Pescetarian? Vegetarian? Vegan? We've got a little something for everyone in this week's roundup. ...

How To Cure Corned Beef (In Time for St. Patrick's Day)

St. Patrick's Day is coming up, and we've decided to take it (and Meat/Un-Meat Month) as inspiration for A Project. We've always been interested in curing our own meat, and corned beef seems like the ...

Vegetarians: Will You Cook Meat For Other People?

Here's a dilemma: You don't eat meat, but your friends/family/spouse/boyfriend/girlfriend love it. You love to cook, but they don't. To keep everyone happy, will you throw a burger on the grill next t...

Back To Basics: 12 Ways To Prepare Ground Beef

With so many protein choices now in stores, it's easy to think of ground beef as only reserved for hamburgers. Today we're kicking it old school and reminding you of old family favorites that utiliz...

Recipe: Mini Rack of Lamb with Nutty Beluga Lentils and Sautéed Garlic Spinach

Yesterday we reviewed Cooking for Two, by Jessica Strand. This very pretty little book has a small, well-edited selection of meals for two. There was one recipe in particular that we really liked, esp...

Weekend Meditation: The Ambivalent Omnivore

I'll admit it. I like to eat critters but I get a little squeamish when I think about killing, gutting, skinning, hanging and slicing them up. Especially when I think about doing all that myself. S...

Super Bowl Parties: Taco Bar

Are you hosting a Super Bowl party this weekend? We are, and we're putting together one of our favorite meals that's easy to prepare and pleases meat-eaters, vegetarians and vegans alike. ...

Bake Sales, Meat, and Overfishing:
Top food news for November 10-14

Here we are with the weekly food news roundup!...

Meat CSA's in the San Francisco Bay Area

We love CSA's because we believe in supporting our local farmers and we love getting fresh produce delivered to us direct from the farmer. Now, those of us in most Bay Area locations can have local m...

Meatpaper: Or, Eating Is Sometimes Complicated

While I’m not a strict vegetarian/vegan, I’m still a little surprised to find myself intrigued by a provocative magazine based in San Francisco called Meatpaper, “a print magazine of art and ide...

Finding Cheap Food in San Francisco

Lately, consumers have been concerned about rising food prices, and with good reason. However, it's not hopeless; good bargains are to be found! We've been paying attention to what things are costin...

Northern California Store Review: Oxbow Public Market in Napa

While in Napa last weekend, we visited the new Oxbow Public Market in downtown Napa. Oxbow is a large food hall where everything on sale is food-related in some way; from spices to tea, to wine and k...

Learn How To Butcher in Brooklyn

Our friends at The Brooklyn Kitchen just posted a new series of classes including Lamb and Pig Butchering. Next month Grocery Guy Tom Mylan will show how to cut up a half a pig and a whole lamb. He'...

Searing Meat Before Cooking: Worth the Extra Effort?

At a recent dinner party, we were asked whether it was really necessary to sear meat before cooking it, especially if it was just getting slow-cooked in a braise or a stew. Our friend logically poin...

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