Where's the beef?

Since my last post pertained to my love of pigs and therefore dislike for
pork, here some more of my meat preferences!

About a year ago I was browsing craigslist for furniture.  It's one of my
hobbies.  A side hobby of buying things off craigslist is looking at
hilariously misspelled posts and pinpointing weirdos by their ads.  I
thought I'd found a winner when (in the furniture section mind you) I saw an
ad for "Boxed Beef".  My mind went straight to potted meats and the like.
Blah!  So of course I clicked on it and I was pleasantly, no amazingly
surprised!  In this ad I found pictures of cows and a farm.  They were
selling, local, grass fed beef for $3 a pound!! 

I wrote them an email asking about a million questions and the nicest lady
in the world wrote me back.  I was sold.  About a week later we made our
first purchase, we met in a Starbucks parking lot and for $75 she filled my
trunk with beef!!  It was a nice mix of ground beef, steaks, ribs, roasts
and stew meat.  Crazy.  You can read more about it here.

We still order from Riley Farms regularly and now we order 50 lbs at a time
and share with another family.  25 lbs is not as much as you think.  We have
a side by side fridge and can fit all the meat on the bottom shelf/drawer.  If you're interested give them a call, they are the sweetest people ever and they will meet you anywhere in central AR!

This has also forced me to expand my kitchen abilities.  I got a recipe
(from Mrs. Judy) for ribs and they were amaaazing.  I grill a lot, although
I would still say that I'm not great at it.  sometimes the steaks come out
chewy.  The ground beef is great too, it is very lean, not much to drain
off.  It has a different flavor, maybe "gamey" is the word?  I'm not totally
sure what that means, but people say it a lot in reference to buffalo or
deer meat.  Hint of grass?  Anyway.  Today is beef day!  Live it up!