I’m hungry for a great steak!

Don’t get me wrong I can enjoy a good pizza or a juicy, baked range-fed chicken or some locally caught fried catfish, but I do like a good steak! My favorite is a nice Wagyu ribeye barely grilled. A great steak is never cooked, just seared with all those wonderful juices retained by getting it hot and then allowing it to “rest” for about 8 minutes – granted wagyu isn’t cheap! You may have heard of wagyu beef by any of these other names: Matsusaka beef, Kobe beef, or Yonezawa beef. Waygu is any of four Japanese breeds of beef shipped around the world. Black Angus is raised right here in southeast Texas! Yahoo!

Don’t want to sell your soul to the devil to get a great steak though? Black Angus! Especially, if you got local ranchers and farmers raising "most of the stars", excellent quality, grass-fed beef! Fortunately, living here in southeast Texas “we’ve got the beef!” You know Black Angus – you’ve bought it before! Black Angus is what we look for and buy!

Yesterday, Sally and I were getting a little stir-crazy here at the house. We have some dreary, wet weather upon us for a while, so we wanted to get out for a couple hours. We headed over to Livingston to check out, a kind-of-new, family-owned meat market (Ruby Cattle Co. Market) located in downtown Livingston on Washington Avenue. Looks interesting! We bought a tenderloin, a chuck roast and some ground beef to put in our freezer. We’re anxious to cook some of our great finds soon!

I also found we have a local farmer who raises and sells top-quality range-fed chickens and healthy pork too! So, I am looking forward to stocking up some meat with him later. Okay, enough said, I’m starting to drool talking about all these wonderful, local meat sources.

As our large supermarkets start charging more and stocking-
less this might be a good time to think about supporting your local farmers and ranchers. They care and they are trying hard to provide good meat and vegetables for you and your family.

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