Category Archives: Cooking Tips and Recipes

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 →

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 →

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 →

  Helpful hints for when you buy your first local turkey     by Shannon Hayes Shannon Hayes is the host of grassfedcooking.com and the author of The Farmer and the Grill and The Grassfed Gourmet and Radical Homemakers. She … Continue reading →

Kababs: full flavored, juicy, and righteously not tender! By Shannon Hayes, grassfedcooking.com  The heat of summer inspires meat lovers everywhere to cast aside their pots and pans for the sake of connecting more primitively with their food.  Grills light up … Continue reading →

Techniques and recipes for guaranteeing tender meat from the toughest cuts of beef

Helpful hints for when you buy your first local turkey

Rendering and cooking with lard

Techniques for making two of the most essential ingredients in a prudent carnivore’s kitchen