Heerre’s the beef!
Posted by michellemoquin on June 5th, 2008
As I mentioned we picked up our beef the other day. In case some of you don’t recall me mentioning, we ordered a ’split half’ cow from a local farm that raises grassfed beef and sells only direct to the public. Morris farms cows have been grassfed since birth and have only lived roaming the farmland eating fresh grass it’s entire life. A truly ‘happy cow’.
I was so excited to pick up beef at the designated spot in Berkeley. Our good friend Gin and Rich met me there as we were splitting the ‘half split’ with them. I got the chance to meet Joe, the owner of the farm; definitely a cowboy, sporting the traditional hat, boots, and all…wearing a big smile. He was just as delightful to meet in person as he was when I spoke to him on the phone a few months back. I asked him how the cows were this year. In ‘meat’ talk that meant, ‘Was there enough grass to fatten them up to a healthy size?’ Joe said the butcher was extremely happy. I was too, not that I would know the difference but I trusted he knew his stuff.
The meat was delivered freshly frozen in neatly packed boxes in a big semi. 42 lbs of ground beef and 44 lbs of every cut you could imagine in the deepest reddest color of fresh meat I have ever seen, all packaged and ready to store in the freezer. At $6.30/lb it is the deal anyone would be crazy not to take advantage of. We split our ‘half split’ drooling over the anticipation of what it was going to taste like, planning our next gathering together in celebration of discovering this wonderful new way to enjoy the beef.
As I drove home I felt so grateful that I could finally start eating meat again and not feel guilty knowing that these cows were given the best humane lives before their lives were taken to nourish and feed me. These cows were raised living strictly off the grass of the land, no grains at all for these well-taken care of cows. They are left free to roam as they please, their entire lives moving from acre to acre eating their way across the farmlands. As the land and the animals are taken care of in a holistic approach, the result is native grasses and trees are expanding on the farm land and creeks are becoming healthy and cleaner. By supporting this farm I / we are supporting the environment, not contributing to destroying the ozone layer through methane gasses and the production of unhealthy and downed cows raised in factory farms. Enough said on that. Today’s write is bragging about Morris and their cows, not the disasters of factory farming.
When I got home I excitedly put away all of the beef in our freezer examining each cut as I placed it gently inside. I left out 2 lbs of ground beef - We were going to make burgers as soon as they thawed!
Last night was the night. Just as I expected the meat had thawed. I opened one package of the ground beef seasoned it with a little S & P and carefully formed them into 2 perfect burgers ready for the grill. I whipped up a small salad of chopped celery and crispy Persian cucumbers and sides of thinly sliced Roma tomatoes topped with fresh mozzarella, basil and my favorite olive oil. I headed outside to where the burgers were slow cooking, a little tip from Morris. Grassfed beef needs to be cooked slowly, the flame never touching the meat. It should not be cooked well done, and you’ve really screwed a good piece of meat if you burn it ever!…medium rare or rare is the best for this meat so if you are a well-done kind of beef eater, you need to try something new.
Within 15 minutes the burgers were done, the cheese perfectly melted on top. We sandwiched them between Rudi’s organic buns, threw on minimal condiments…I wanted to taste this meat…and dove in. My mouth was happy! Doug cooked it perfectly. Not only was it medium rare how I like it, the texture of the beef was like no other….it was first of all very juicy and it held together and didn’t shrink from the cooking…but it was the texture mixed in with the fresh taste…I can’t really describe it but it was smoother and less chunky if that makes sense and the taste..well I don’t know how to describe it either…ya know, whatever. All I can say was that it was simple delicious and that is was the best burgers we have ever had bar none. We both agreed on that. We can’t wait to sample the rest of the cuts.
Interested in purchasing? Check out their website for more info.
It’s another beautiful day, which means another beautiful evening for enjoying another beautiful burger.
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Hello Doug: Yeah I thought that was kind of funny that there were no comments. I meant to add this video yesterday because it felt so apropos considering the content yesterday…but I forgot nad now I can’t find it….Oh well…it is a pretty scary clip and even more of a reason why bulletproof clothing could be needed for the everyday person (?) What is this world coming to? Hmmm…Oh Btw, did I mention how great the burger was last night? :)
Hi anon: I missed your comment last week - sorry, I rarely visit my archives. Hopefully, you’ll get the opportunity to come on over to this blog and visit. Thanks for your open and honest comments in regards the movie, ‘Into the wild’. I know what you mean by wanting to ‘free’ yourself from materialism and attachment, detaching yourself from the ‘bondage of society’. Perhaps you can do part of it as you stated. Lately on this blog, freeing ourselves of just what you mentioned has been big in our lives. I will speak for myself and say purging has been so liberating for me; the less I have the more I feel light and less bogged down. I feel like I can think clearer and I actually appreciate the things that I have more so because I am using them more; nothing left here that doesn’t have a use. I also don’t have to rummage through the mess to get to what I really want to ’see’. Clearing the clutter unclogs the clutter in my mind too…unnecessary thoughts and identities…another areas I am trying to purge :)
Hi Adam: How’s it going? We of course welcome AH with open arms. I hope that we can teach him as much as I am sure he will teach us.
Hi Howie: I know what you mean. I know that I make ‘light and fun’ on of the subject of armored clothing, but it is truly scary that this world has come to that.
In regards to Madaline, I do not think of her as ’saint madaline.’ Where did that come from? Do I think that she has some pretty good ideas beside the killing route? Yes, I do, but I am also open to hearing some other ideas if anyone out there has any to contribute. Do you have any? Perhaps Carr can give some advice on how to turn this messed up world around?
Hi Madaline: I know what you mean…fashion is fun and being a girl, I too like being oogled especially by my special guy.
Hey readers….So Obama is on the ticket. I am delighted. I was listening to the Ronn Owens show on KGO yesterday and a guy emailed in the same question that I asked Doug the other day, ‘What if Hillary decides to run as an Independent?’ Ronn said, “I only have one word: McCain.” I added to that…I have four words: ‘McCain, and we’re screwed.’ Something to think about. For you McCain fans…just my opinion.
Have a cool day…
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June 5th, 2008 at 11:00 am
oops, forgot, http://edgy1.wordpress.com/ ‘Gender Wars: Alpha Males’ oh yeahhhhh…ZL
June 5th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Oh yeah, Howie, also I think I might’ve written (might’ve, I did. hahaha) that I think Madaline should run for high office back a bit, you may have misconstrued that as well (St. Madaline status). I was just thinking if her new intellectual powers could be focused and channeled through a ‘Zen’ filter i.e. a more diplo approach, well, then I would certainly see her as a female contender in politics at some level, lots of variables to clean up of course, but why not? I prefer to believe that all the ‘I’m an alien now’ talk is her youngish way of handling and adjusting to her new found powers.
I am sorry that at times she’s pinpointed you and/or Al for a ‘Mad Madaline’ verbal spewage just cause you’re a man: )
Madaline, please don’t beat me up over the above statements. I only wish you the best and best usage of any powers you may have gained during your travels.
Michelle, re: your comment on my blog. alpha - non-alpha no one is better than the other, same as the sexes as far as I’m concerned. I hate labels also but I am what I am : ) and it’s clear I have always been an alpha. I would say you fly under the radar, you have female ‘clout’ persuasion but it’s done in such a low key manner I wouldn’t bother playing with a label, why bother?
In so far as my blog entries, throughout history it seems that all the movers and shakers had the alpha qualities. It’s not better but they are usually ‘doers’ and yes, I know several very alpha females and love them all.
I have met a few that I took an instant dislike to but I think that was more bc they were just snooty, bitchy and playing that entitlement game, which I have a low level of tolerance for. get real or get the f**k out! If you ever overhear me ask an obvious alpha female if she knows where the Ladies room is, it means I want to get the f**k away from her asap! Or maybe I just have to pee, you’d have to call it…hahaha…
It is gorgeous down here today, volleyball tourney this weekend is setting up and there’s just male beefcake and female Amazon posers everywhere, I’m petite compared to these chicks, they’d kick my freakin’ ass, hahaha…
In fact, I think one of them is coming over to do that now, I’m using my decrepit and super slow laptop, searching for a new one now on eBay, cannot wait lah.
I love people watching : ) alpha or not, pretty people or not.
- Zen Lill
June 5th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Talk much? hahaha -ZL
June 6th, 2008 at 6:47 am
I am truly amazed at the noticeable difference with this beef. Immediately one could tell the difference simply by seeing it in its clear packaging. The color is pure. There are no artificial colors or diluted coloring. It is blood red with no sugar fat content.
Normally I am not a rare hamburger kind of guy, however, this meat when slow cooked holds its own amazing taste. Having this burger without anything on it, excepting organic cheese, one can taste the difference in the first bite. It is without a doubt the best burger, and most healthy, that I have ever had in my life.
As our global food economy takes us farther and farther away from organic, local and heirloom foods it can become increasingly more difficult to find healthier means of eating. With this type of purchasing I know we will not go back. The pricepoint also makes it so much smarter to eat healthy without getting hormone induced grain fed meat that was locked up in caged environments throughout their lives. Studies have shown the inconsistencies, impurities, and damaging fat content with factory meats. With grain fed beef you can watch you meat shrink on the grill due to the sugar fat that drips away from the meats coming from the corn feed. Also, knowing that within the feed that many of these factory cows receive they are eating gypsum, cardboard and other garbage fillers, including other cow ingredients, it is no wonder why our society is increasingly obese and unhealthy.
So much of good health is an attitude and eating right this makes doing so affordable and easy. Although, we don’t eat much beef to begin with, if we do so we know that we will be enjoying a healthy cow that lived as good of a life that cow farming would allow in today’s society. I’m sold!!