Playing with food from mavenandmeddler.com

How to fix a flat on your road bike

2010-07-28T04:42:41Z

Braised celery makes a light, healthy summer dish

2010-07-24T22:48:24Z

Most excellent pan-fried beef sirloin steaks

2010-07-24T22:15:43Z

KT Beef: Bringing back memories of how beef should taste

2010-07-21T04:41:40Z

At the most recent Sunday farmer’s market at the Grove (corner of South Virginia and Foothill) - I noticed something new. Folks selling beef from their operation - KT Beef - up in Loyalton, California. Although we don’t eat much meat these days at Rancho Maven, we still get a yen once in a while for the taste of real meat - the kind I remember getting way back in the day in Kansas and Colorado. My family still raises quality beef in Parsons, Kansas.

Taking a look at what they had, I engaged ranchers Dennis and Laurie Marsh in a conversation about how they raise their beef, and further- how they finish it. I liked what I heard. There’s no corn involved.

As you have noticed, I have a ‘thing’ about feeding cattle corn. My late uncle Robert, back in Parsons gave me chapter and verse as a teenager about why that was wrong - and why feedlots were terrible. If you’ve taken a bit of time to read Michael Pollan, or watch King Corn or Food, Inc. you’ll know that cattle were not designed to eat corn. They are herbivores. Corn does not make for either delicious or safe meat.

But I digress.

'Kook' by Peter Heller, author event at The Book Passage

2010-07-18T22:45:44Z

Jamie Oliver: Power of food and a TED prize wish

2010-07-15T03:57:09Z

Fast, easy, delicious. Frozen yogurt-sorbet dessert on the fly.

2010-07-13T23:10:49Z

Getting BBQ charcoal started fast and easy without starter fluid

2010-07-11T04:50:23Z

Morphing Frida Kahlo self-portraits

2010-07-06T23:57:32Z

Light and easy summertime dishes

2010-07-06T23:36:23Z