My cousins own a farm and we inherited a large box of ground beef over the weekend. It doesn't get much more local and free-range then a cow I petted out in the pasture this summer! Between our new-found ground beef stash and my husbands yield from hunting, we have a VERY full freezer! If you see an unusual amount of ground meat based meals on the agenda for the next six months, you know why!
It's funny, I was talking to a co-worker about our meat "situation" and she was kind of grossed out. "Really, deer meet? And a cow that you have met? It's really creepy." Ummm... no. Given all of the media in Canada these days about meat safety and the (lack of) processes at some of the countries largest meat plants, I am so happy and relieved to have a freezer of local, free-range, grain fed, organic meat. I know exactly where it came from, what it ate and where it was butchered. People need to get connected with their food! Where do they they think that ground from Costco came from!?
I digress... without further ado, here is the plan for this week!
- Homemade pizza, topped with pesto tomato sauce, shrimp, red onion, feta, mushrooms and spinach
- Grilled ham and cheese sandwiches, veggies soup
- Chicken legs, potatoes, spinach salad
- Taco salads, with the aforementioned ground
