How to Cook the Perfect Roast – Every time!

Beef Recipes, Cooking Tips, How to Cook

Everyone needs to know how to cook a roast to perfection – EVERY TIME – with their eyes closed.  Here’s a very basic recipe and I’ve included some of the steps people usually leave out and why it’s not a good idea to do so. If...

Beauty Interrupted

Animals, Musings, Sheep

Beauty, in all its manifestations,  has always been important to me but the older I get the more it has become a faith, a yearning, and a guiding principle for my life. My great fortune is that the farm puts all this in crystal clear perspective, day after day. This...

Rump Roast with Green Olives and Raisins

Beef Recipes

Shredded Rump Roast With Olives and Raisins This is not your ordinary pot roast recipe. Ever since my friend, Liz, made me this roast some thirty years ago, my mouth waters, Pavlovian-style, when I think of it. This makes the most amazing Argentinian empanadas and the...

Carnitas

Pork Recipes

  Carnitas What are carnitas?  Done right, carnitas are ultra-rich, soft pork meat with slightly crisp edges.  Pork butt is the perfect meat for this recipe but the picnic works great too.  This is a very simple recipe for an outstanding, authentic dish. 4 lb...

Very Basic Meatloaf

Beef Recipes

  Basic Meatloaf I LOVE meatloaf and it seems like I never make it the same twice, which is why I LOVE meatloaf.  It’s a perfect “whatever you happen to have on hand” type of recipe. I’ve had families drop by unexpectedly and I’ll...

Our Chickens – How they Grow

Farm News

Day 1 at RCF   This year Brayden will raise about 1500 chickens.  If the weather keeps up it’s warm and cold spells he may even be able to go year-round and up that number by about 400. The bottom line is that we sell a boat-load of chicken.  I thought I...