Anniversary dinner#4

Smoked Pulled-pork enchiladas smothered in a home-made red sauce. Stuffed with fresh grated cheese and sliced sweet baby-bell peppers. Topped with crème and sriracha with a touch of cilantro.

Lastnight: sausage gnocchi bake. Very tasty!

Asian marinated chicken kebabs with mango, sweet chilis and red onion. Chipotle lime seasoning on some, steak and roast on others.

Here is my most recent great find. A 60” American Range unit. Double oven, 6 burner, griddle top and broiler below. This will be an excellent addition to my shop kitchen build. The lady bought it new and only used it to can on. Griddle and oven have never been used. $500 out the door.

Cooked a one skillet hash with some of last seasons deer sausage. I smoked the sausage Thursday night and made the rest of the dish lastnight. Simple as simple gets, but fresh ingredients almost always equal a win at the dinner table. Just wish the veggies would have been home grown…next year.

Another taco night lastnight. Tacos de carne deshebrada. My boy only has a few teeth, so he got the “deconstructed version” He had all the fixings and ate it all. It amazes me how much a toddler can put down!

Last nights cook: 100% scratch made chicken-fried steak, mashed potatoes and sweetcorn. I’m not sure why gravy packets are a thing…homemade is just as easy to make with three ingredients. Kansas-raised beef.

Happy Sunday everyone, put that homemade bacon to good use with an eggs Benedict. The base is a potato cake with an avocado spread, creme, and grape tomatoes, the mrs. even plated this one. Bloody Mary’s are in the works as I type.

Philly cheese steak bake. KS raised beef T bone, rather than traditional ribeye. Cut against the grain, the t bone works just as well.

processhead I’m not sure yet. I’ll pick it up this weekend and will see how the burger ends up looking. It may end up closer to 90/10 on the ground or even leaner. I’ll post my thoughts when I take delivery and open up a package.

gus4416 that sounds like a good program. I bet they are tasty!

gus4416 So on those numbers you take home about 520 lbs of beef at an average cost per lb of roughly $5.68/lb? Still a heck of a deal considering you are getting a good bit of steaks and premium cuts, to your liking, at a fraction of the cost at the grocery store…take that fraction and double or triple it when talking restaurant costs.

This ol girl is certainly not red angus, she is not yielding near the amount of the larger breeds. She was a Corriente.

Tex_77 About as much as an elk would have lol! I’m expecting a very lean protein from her. Pretty active, not old but not young, lived off of grass and a little protein supplement here and there. Might end up a better bang for the buck even, compared to something living a sedentary lifestyle getting fattened up on corn. Not saying there will be a close comparison on flavor…fat is flavor after all. A leaner cow should be a more cost effective animal for my personal consumption. Can add a fat to the pan when finishing the steak to make up for the lack of internal fat.

HerbcoFood I kept it pretty simple on the cut list for this one! Ribeyes; KC Strips and hamburger! Now that you mention all those other cuts I’m kicking myself for not writing them down on the cut list!!!

Well I just got word that our beef is done and ready for pickup at the processor. I wanted to share my numbers with you all. I’d say this could be done just about anywhere if you aren’t picky about the breed and are ok with grass fed and finished.

We got the cow from a friend, this one was a cull cow since she didn’t end up carrying a calf. Based on the finished yield, I’m estimating her at about 700lbs. I’m not sure on the weight of steaks that we got off her; I’ll know that this weekend when I take delivery. We ended up with 200 lbs of burger, I’m estimating 240 lbs total protein.

All in we are $880 invested in the cow. This includes variable expenses such as feed and minerals as well as the purchase price and the cost of processing. Final cost per/lb should be about $3.66/lb which is beating the grocery store around here by a considerable margin. Fingers crossed that it tastes good!

Austin if you want to sell it all
As a package, I authorize use of this photograph haha!

Tex_77 after previously nearly sabotaging it!?

Got to love a family business who knows how to give back to its customers. Thank you Walton’s for the swag. It will not go unappreciated. Austin Jonathon

From the chicken earlier. Chicken bacon ranch in the front and Tai pizza in the rear.