Tag: comfort foods

  • A Chilly Day for Comforting Chili on the Kirk Ranch

      This past Monday morning was a rude awakening, not just to freezing rain early in the morning that turned to sticky snow but plummeting temperatures. I had just spent a week at a writer’s retreat in Florida and thankfully, got home late Sunday night before the snow rolled in. The next morning it was…

  • Have A Taste of Monte Walsh

    I discovered a great new twist on a favorite sandwich of mine; the Monte Cristo, on one of my favorite new internet beef recipe resources. The recipe for the Monte Walsh (I love that for a sandwich name—after Tom Selleck’s character in Crossfire Trails) that calls for beef instead of ham. I got the recipe…

  • oo-Mom-ee

    “Umami” is not a word cattle producers are likely to make a habit of using regularly but has an effect on them whether they know it or not. Umami defines what an aromatic beef dish tastes like and is the reason farmers and ranchers never tire of eating beef. Umami is a Japanese word derived…