Reader Questions: Beef Suet, Kombucha and Budgets

I receive a lot of emails at Nourished Kitchen from readers who love cooking traditional foods, but still have questions.  You might be wondering about how long you should cook Read More →

A Recipe: Salisbury Steak for Grown-ups

This is not your lunch lady’s Salisbury steak recipe. No.  Not by any means.  In this Salisbury steak recipe, we pair grass-fed beef with earthy oyster and shiitake mushrooms, Read More →

a recipe: braised steak with red wine and rosemary

I like a good steak – rich, tender, juicy, barely cooked.  Most of all, I like a good grass-fed steak.  In fact anything else leaves me a bit queasy.  There’s a striking Read More →

Cider-braised Brisket with Tzimmes

Braised brisket with tzimmes, a classic dish for Rosh Hashanah, takes a new direction with the addition of hard apple cider.  Slowly cooked and tenderly watched, grass-fed beef Read More →

Home-cured Corned Beef

Home-cured corned beef.  It seems daunting, doesn't it?  Curing meat at home is much easier than you'd expect, and there's a growing community of home cooks who are beginning to Read More →

Beef Pot Roast with Winter Root Vegetables

Beef pot roast - classic comfort food - offers that lovely warmth one needs most during the darkest days of winter.  A good beef pot roast satisfies and nourishes on an almost Read More →

Food Stamp Challenge Week #1: $68 Down

On Saturday morning, my son and I got dressed, packed my bag with a calculator, Seafood Watch's Pocket Guide and the Environmental Working Group's Wallet Guide to the Dirty Dozen Read More →

Nourishing Beef Burgundy

It's starting to get cold out - stormy and chilly all afternoon - and the aspens are turning gold again.   When summer turns to autumn, my thoughts turn to comfort food: meatloaf, Read More →

How to Pan Fry a Great Steak

1. Choose grass-fed beef. Grass-fed beef is rich in conjugated linoleic acid, beta carotene, iron, zinc and B vitamins making it a nutritional powerhouse.   Moreover, grass-fed Read More →

The Sunday Farmers Market Table

Sunday is market day and it starts very, very early.   My husband rises at about 5:30, makes breakfast and packs up his truck.   I wake a little later, get our child ready for Read More →

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