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Category Archives: Cooking Tips and Recipes
A Celebration of the Casserole
The following excerpt is taken from Shannon Hayes’ newest book, Long Way on a Little: An Earth Lover’s Companion for Enjoying Meat, Pinching Pennies and Living Deliciously. When I was in graduate school, I had the wonderful opportunity to interview … Continue reading
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Farm-Fresh, Pasture-Raised Easter Eggs
By Shannon Hayes Growing up on the farm, I always had mixed feelings about Easter. The chocolate was certainly great, and I truly enjoyed sitting around the table in my grandmother’s kitchen dyeing Easter eggs, and I looked forward to … Continue reading
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Getting Saucy: Stretching Your Meat Budget with Gravies and Reductions
By Shannon Hayes I’m not sure where it all started. Maybe it was back during the Norman Conquest. But no matter how you look at, in spite of their relative cooperation and neighborliness since the Crimean war, the French and … Continue reading
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Important Information Re: The Grassfed Gourmet Cookbook
Dear Friends; I first became acquainted with many of you in 2002, when I sent around letters telling you of my plans to write a cookbook for grassfed meats, soliciting your recipe contributions and insights. I came to know … Continue reading
Sirloin Tip: Juicy Steak for Lean Times
By Shannon Hayes Just a few weeks remain before the release of my newest cookbook, Long Way on a Little, which focuses on helping home cooks stretch their meat dollars as far as possible. Perhaps it is a reflection of … Continue reading
One Chicken, Three Meals: The Best Bargain at the Farmers’ Market
By Shannon Hayes Pardon the pun, but the one cut of meat I am most likely to see a new customer “bawk” at is a whole chicken. Our price for whole birds last year was $4.95/lb, 35% less than … Continue reading
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Nothing Says Love Like Filet
Shannon Hayes In the fifteen years Bob and I have been together, we’ve figured out how to orchestrate the perfect romantic evening. Flowers and chocolates were long ago dismissed. Jewelry goes largely unappreciated. Fancy restaurants or elegant stays … Continue reading
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Great Stew: Anyone Can Make it
Shannon Hayes Anyone can make a great stew! Very often, the simplest dishes I prepare are the ones that receive the most comments. A friend dropped in the other day to retrieve her daughter from a play … Continue reading
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Top 5 Grassfed Steak Misteaks
Selling grassfed meat at a farmers’ market is great work, if you can get it. Folks who are inclined to buy your product are also very likely to make terrific friends. The double bonus is that these folks have … Continue reading
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Can we eat meat in an ecological and economic crisis? Yes.
By Shannon Hayes. Thirty-plus years as grassfed meat farmers has taught my family to anticipate unpredictability. One minute we’re in floods. The next, drought. One minute livestock farmers are accused of being cruel animal abusers. The next, we’re saints. One … Continue reading →