Steak Cooking Update

Karen Dunham • May 04, 2021

Steak Success

Last year, in another post, I confessed to being more of a braising girl, having ruined many a high end steak. Too many to count. Not kidding. I try not to think about it. So, I told you all that I'd give you an update after purchasing a meat thermometer - the kind with a pointer that you insert into the steak inside the oven, while the display remains outside the oven. I am happy to report that I've had some great success since adding that tool to my kitchen arsenal. I find that if I actually pay attention to the thermometer (kind of a problem at times!), set a timer, and pull the steaks out when I should, I am rewarded with perfectly lovely, medium rare, tender perfection. I've been using Michelle Tam's recipe at nomnompaleo.com (which I think she got from thekitchn.com) for The Perfect Steak. She suggests starting the steak in the oven and then finishing it off in a cast iron skillet. The results have been glorious. The above photo is a steak salad that I made last week - these are bison sirloins and they were melt in your mouth tender. I added artichoke hearts, cucumbers, green olives, carrots, hearts of palm, bell peppers, some sheep's milk feta, and avocado over a bed of arugula and crustiferous crunch mix, drizzled with avocado oil and Balsamic vinegar. You can't see the arugula and greens in the photo, but I promise they were there...lots of them.

We are still taking orders for spring. If you are looking for steaks, all of our bundles have some high end steaks in them as do our grilling bundles. We still have one Bison Tenderloin Filet order , Beef Tenderloin Filet orders, and Bison Grilling Bundles available. We don't expect to have any beef grilling bundles left, based on the number of animals we anticipate processing, but if you are interested in getting on a waiting list for those, contact me at kriggsy@gmail.com. As always, if you have questions, please ask them - we are happy to help.


By Karen Dunham 03 May, 2024
Raw Honey is one truly amazing substance. We all know that it tastes fantastic, but did you know that it also provides a myriad of health benefits for us both internally and externally? First, let’s talk about what defines Raw Honey as opposed to conventional honey. Raw honey is not filtered, but instead is strained, often gravitationally, in order to remove bits of beeswax, bee parts, dead bees, and other impurities that are in the hives and honey frames. To be considered raw, honey isn't heat extracted from the hives or ever heated above the temperature that bees keep their hives (around 95-105 degrees) in order to strain or pour it. This careful process allows the honey to keep all of the beneficial nutrients that are naturally present in the hive, including pollen and propolis. According to Dr. Josh Axe, raw Honey is a “functional food” containing 22 amino acids, 27 minerals, 5000 enzymes, and at least 16 known antioxidants. Raw Honey is also anti-fungal, antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory and antiseptic. These properties make Raw Honey perfect for applying to wounds and killing infections as well taking internally for digestive and gut issues. Personally, we have used raw honey to heal a staph infection, and it also worked wonders for me when I had a case of food poisoning. This fabulous substance is full of phytonutrients, phytochemicals, and polyphenols that act as antioxidants, hunting down free radicals within the body, boosting our immune systems and unlocking neuroprotective functions that aid in brain performance. Raw Honey does all of the above, and it even tastes fantastic too! Isn’t that crazy? I mean, we all know how great liver is for you, but it definitely does NOT taste anything like honey. There are some other very interesting aspects about Raw Honey as well. For instance, Raw Honey never goes bad. It can freeze with no change in properties, and if you happen to stash a container in your storage room and find it years later (that'd be me!), it will still be perfectly fine - just hardened or crystallized. And speaking of crystallizing and hardening, honey does one or the other depending on the climate, water content, and conditions during the year in which it was made. Personally, I LOVE hardened honey, but most years, honey tends to crystallize rather than harden. Honey is harvested once a year, and so over the course of that year, it crystallizes (or hardens); some years it crystallizes quickly and other years more slowly. Our bee keeper says that honey is alive and can change in color and texture from year to year, even within the same hives that are in the exact location. It is a truly miraculous product. We LOVE our Raw Honey. We’ve never tasted anything like it. I never particularly liked honey, and I NEVER would have licked the honey spoon, until I tried the honey we sell at Glacier Grown. That super dark stuff that the grocery stores call honey is a far inferior product. I’ve even had some honeys that are called raw, but are pretty terrible. You don’t have to sacrifice taste for quality and nutritional benefit - you can have both!! If you haven’t tried our honey yet, do yourself a favor and give it a shot . We have some in stock now, from last fall’s harvest, but with the summer farm stand season starting in May, I’m expecting that we will sell it all prior to the 2024 honey being ready at the end of September. Running out of Glacier Grown Raw Honey is never a good thing.
By Karen Dunham 21 Jan, 2022
It's been a while since we've been in touch. The last 6 months have been a wild and woolly ride over at the Dunham household, but we've finally come up for air. We hope that you and yours enjoyed a lovely holiday season and that you have headed into the New Year full of hope and enthusiasm. Those of you who have been with us for years, undoubtedly, see a different group of people in the above photo than when we made deliveries to Southern California in the past. All of those previously little people have grown up - the baby started college this past year, and the oldest has a baby of his own. All in the blink of an eye. We wanted to say THANK YOU to all of you - we appreciate you and your continued support. It is a privilege to provide the very best 100% grass fed, grass finished, pasture raised, chemical-free, humanely raised meats that our northwest corner has to offer. If you are looking to stock your freezer for the next few months, before spring deliveries begin (we will start taking orders in March and deliveries will start in late May/early June), we still have some items remaining from the Fall Harvest ready to ship.
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