beef

Dinner

The Beauty of Braising {Recipe: Apple Cider Braised Brisket}

by Shaina
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Written by Shaina of Food for My Family. Leaves change color and fall to the ground as the market fills with the bounty of summer. These weeks are my favorite at the market, where a sweater alone keeps you plenty warm and there’s a certain nip in the air that invites hot apple cider as [...]

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Menu Planning & Batch Cooking

More Warm Weather Batch Cooking

by Aimee
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I‘ll bet that you didn’t expect to see homemade salad dressing as the top photo for a post about batch cooking, did you? The term ‘batch cooking’ refers to dishes that are made in double or quadruple batches, and frozen for convenience. It usually refers to vats of chili, seas of lasagna, and spaghetti sauce [...]

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Dinner

Grilling Burgers (Recipe: Bacon and Blue Cheese Sliders)

by Shaina
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Written by Shaina of Food for My Family. Burgers. Hamburgers. Cheeseburgers. Sliders. Patties. I’m sure you have an opinion. How they should be cooked. What sorts of toppings adorn them. The type of bun that the orb of meat sits upon. Regardless of those opinions, these meat patty sandwiches are rather universal. There’s a good [...]

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Dinner

Good Food for a Crowd (Recipe: Cumin & Oregano Beef Kebabs)

by Aimee
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Summer eating calls for food that gives maximum flavour for minimal effort and these garlic and oregano scented beef kebabs deliver just that. They are one of my go-to grilling suppers when I just don’t feel like burgers and make an excellent menu option for entertaining friends on warm June evening. At a recent backyard [...]

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Nourishment

How Meat Fits Into a Sustainable, Ethical Diet

by Shannon
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Written by Shannon of Nourishing Days. There is a scene in the film Food Inc. in which a seemingly nice guy is interviewed about his giant confinement feed lot. In that interview he states that if the consumers were to demand ethically-raised meat, the farmers would change their practices to meet that demand. In other [...]

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