Ranch Wife's Slant

Cowboys, kids, and ranch life

Month: September 2012

  • Discovering My Mitchell, SD Coffee Shop Fans

    There are days as a columnist when I feel like words just won’t bind together for me on the topic I’m trying to write about. When I look at what I’ve written and feel like a 5th grader could do a better job, I sometimes wonder if anybody out there actually read my stuff. Then…

  • Beef Flavor Factors

    Even though my family is able to fill our chest freezer with a wide variety of different beef cuts, I still get confused in remembering where each cut comes from and knowing the best way to cook them. This is especially true now that new value cuts have been created out of the chuck, shoulder,…

  • Guest Speaking at DakotaFest’s Women’s Brunch

      My blog was temporarily down, so this post is later than intended. On August 22nd, I spoke at my largest audience to date. I was the DakotaFest Women’s Brunch guest speaker at the Highlands Conference Center. The theme was Growing Up Country, and my talk was a spinoff of that called, There’s A Little…