Tag: food
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Weekend Cereal
Like most households, my family looks forward to weekends. It means they get to have weekend cereal! I dubbed sugar-coated cereals weekend cereals a long time ago when I made it a rule one summer that my kids couldn’t eat sugar cereal for breakfast every day. I’ve always felt like the first meal of the…
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BEEF Magazine’s May 2011 Issue Features Value Cuts of Beef
I was overly excited when I received the May 2011 issue of BEEF Magazine in our mailbox last week and saw the cover. The magazine’s featured topic focused on value cut meats. The front cover pictured a scrumptious skillet dish of pan-fried steak, onions, jalapeños, and colored bell peppers called Samba steak stir fry using…
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The Ranch Wife Chronicles: A Fellow South Dakota Ranch Wife’s Blog
At the Women In Ag conference this past fall I met a new friend Robyn, who lives in the opposite direction from where I live, and since we met we’ve stayed in contact through technology. Robyn and her husband live on a ranch in a more remote location than I do, yet she and I…
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Roast Beef: The Ultimate in Lazy Cooking
Roast beef is one of my favorite cuts of beef because it’s the easiest meat to cook and make meals out of. I usually have our meat processor make 4-5 pound roasts out of our butcher critter for us. I like that I can squeeze three meals out of one roast without much fuss to…
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Looking Out for the Consumer
Consumers should be informed about the food they buy, not coerced into certain beliefs about their food. The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is a nonprofit organization that looks out for the consumer and promotes protecting the consumer’s choices. This site informs consumers of what certain people and organizations are doing to sway consumers about…
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Round Steak Revival
For years, round steak was my least favorite cut of beef, mostly because I struggled to find very many interesting and tasty ways to prepare it. Round steak used to be the last to get eaten of our beef supply. The past few years I’ve taken it as a personal challenge to find new ways…
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Krafting Food for Family
Many of my best meal ideas, desserts and appetizers come from Kraft Food & Family magazine. It comes out four times a year but all of Kraft Food & Family’s recipes are online. It’s one of my favorite recipe sources. I subscribe to this cooking magazine mostly because I’m really immature and like finding stuff in…
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How to Feed A Branding Crew
Feeding a branding crew is easy. You just have to know what to feed them. The Holy Grail of a branding day dinner is man food the kind with substance to it and nothing more. No foofy stuff or unidentifiable herbs and ingredients. For starters, when I plan a branding day dinner I don’t get…