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.

Comments

"We Need Life Flight!"

"We need Life Flight!" Desperate words when lives are in serious danger! It happens, all too often, especially in bad weather, traffic accidents or when a family member suffers a stroke or has seriously injured themselves. Memorial Hermann Life Flight is based in Houston, Texas and provides critical care medical air transport services within 150-mile radius of the Texas Medical Center located in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1976 by James "Red" Duke, MD the service operates around the clock - weather permitting - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Life Flight is able to transport up to two patients at a time, with each flight staffed by highly skilled personnel and equipped with advanced emergency equipment and necessary medications. There is so much more to know about Memorial Hermann Life Flight you will enjoy visiting their web page which I provide here. ( My accurate source of this important information and yours.) https://memorialhermann.org/services/specialties/tr...

Get away to New Iberia

Founded by Spaniards in 1779 on the banks of the Bayou Teche, New Iberia eventually became home to French settlers known as Acadians, who had been driven from Nova Scotia by British troops. The Acadians, who in their new home became known as Cajuns. When my dad, who worked for an oil company, got transferred to New Iberia from Houston, we had to move from the big city to this small country town in south Louisiana. A culture shock for me! I was 15 years old back then and had to leave all my friends back home in Houston. I eventually, made new ones in my new "hometown." It was tough! However, I wound up loving New Iberia and all my new Cajun friends. My mother was a nurse; she found work with the Jefferson Island Salt Co. on nearby Avery Island - it was one of the biggest employers in the area at the time. How do you get to New Ib...

Sleeping with a Fan -- or Not

I'm not a fan of sleeping with a fan -- especially, all night long! My wife is, and that's all I'm going to say about that! Best I don't go there, so I am changing the subject! What about dreams? What are they? Why do we have them? Are dreams real? Let's see, here's what I can report about dreams. "In your dreams!" Now, that's funny! When we dream, we get to act out what we probably wouldn't do in reality. That ca n be fun! In the 19th century, Sigmund Freud pioneered the study of dreams. However, in spite of all the advanced research done with science, through the years, and since then, we still don't know everything about dreams or why we have them. Here's what I have discovered in my research on the subject of dreams : Typically, we spend about two hours each night dreaming. Our dreams can last anywhere from 5-20 minutes each. Sometimes, it seems, I dream all night long. Other times, I may not dream at all. I don't always rememb...

What's Up Melton?

Search This Blog