Tag: food
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Bringing People Together, Sharing a Meal, & Benefitting Ranchers Affected by Storm Atlas
A Senior Project Success: When our son Myles said he was thinking about putting on a steak feed to benefit the Rancher Relief Fund for his Senior Project (a fairly new requirement for South Dakota high school graduates), I was very proud that he came up with that particular idea all on his…
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Will Chase After Food
Awhile back I’d written a column about how our food was hard-earned and how sometimes we’ve had to chase it down. That column was inspired by an event that happened with our butcher critter. He’s been kept separate from the heifer calves by a corral fence and an old cattle panel my husband custom fit…
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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,…
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Roast Beef and Colby-Jack Biscuits
After our branding a couple of weeks ago, I had some leftover roast beef that I decided to make the next night’s supper out of instead of freezing like I do with a lot of the leftover meat and potatoes from our branding day dinner. I am always on the hunt for unique and new…
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My Branding Day Checklists
We’re gearing up for our branding and one of the things I do to prepare for it is make lists to organize my time. Cooking a meal for a large crowd is a lot of work and takes time. I organize my days prior by creating lists I can refer to. I like to enjoy…
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Ask a Professional
When you want accurate answers to questions about such things as your health, financial investments, or automotive problems for example, you go directly to the people who can answer your questions best with facts to back them up. It’s their job to know all there is to know about their profession and you rely on…
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Ag United and South Dakota’s True Environmentalists
Agriculture faces increasing scrutiny from people and organizations that are far-removed from the land and the sources of their food. Our food doesn’t come from a grocery store they’re just the distributors of it. Food comes from crops grown by hard working farming and ranching families. A lot of criticism is stemmed from lack of…
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The Supper Table: Nourishing a Family Tradition
The one thing I have fought hard to keep as a tradition in my household is having meals together as a family; most especially supper. In today’s busy world, I am shocked that sitting down together as a family is not a priority with a lot of families. Many allow busy schedules to infringe on…
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Calving Season Suppers
Once calving season is in full swing, the thought of fixing supper gets to be a drag and a hassle. Since my energy and concentration starts to dwindle around suppertime, I try to simplify feeding my family by relying heavily on my crockpot to do a lot of my cooking for me (actually I have two crockpots)….
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Coffee Cake in a Cup
Have you ever had a craving for just a piece of chocolate cake but didn’t want to make a whole cake that’s not only hard to stay away from but also dirties up a lot of dishes? I discovered the perfect solution to such dilemma from our former Extension 4-H Youth Educator. She demonstrated to…