Pasture-Raised Dinner

We had our first dinner using the pasture-raised meat we bought at the Apple Family Farm....two words....HOLY COW. (pun) It was spectacular, it tasted so beefy. And, you know sometime beef or any other grocery store meat leaves a film on the inside of your mouth form the high fat content. This didn't you ate a piece of succulent beef and it left your mouth with a wonderful aftertaste and watering for more. We each had a nice size portion and it was a bit deceiving at first because we thought the steaks were rather small, but since they were dry aged they had already shrunk in size a bit....so they didn't shrink much it all during the cooking process.

I grilled the steaks at 600 degrees on the grill for about 2 minutes on each side for med. rare. I used the gas grill this time, we'll try charcoal next time, but I wanted to have more control over temperature on this first try. Before grilling I rubbed some sea salt on them and they came out great. Laura didn't even use A! steak sauce (a rare occurrence). To accompany the steaks we had Kale & Feta Pasta (Onions, garlic, Kale, salt, red pepper, feta, parmesan and Penne). Rounding it off we had a glass (yes only a glass) of Yalumbia Barossa 2004 (Shiraz & Viognier).

Feel free to join us next time.