About a month ago, Slow Food Oahu organized a Molokai beef shipment. Buyers congregated in the parking lot of Foster Botanical Garden, and when the truck rolled in, they swarmed. A security guard rushed over.
"You can't sell stuff here!"
"Oh, we're not selling."
"Whatever you're doing, you can't do it!"
I suppose it looked suspicious--a pick-up truck loaded with cardboard boxes, people opening the boxes and brandishing three feet long oxtails, others rushing the boxes into their cars and driving away to their freezers or grill. It's like we were selling organic beef on the black market. The story: we had all bought into a cow-share...maybe more aptly, beef-share. We had each purchased 1/8 of a cow, roughly 50 pounds for $325, from Pu'u o Hoku ranch on Molokai. The beef arrives divided into 8 boxes as ground beef, stew meat, and various cuts like rib steak, chuck roast, skirt steak, short rib, and porterhouse steak of a 2 foot diameter. It's all grass fed, hormone, chemical, and antibiotic free beef, and it makes the most delicious hamburgers I've ever grilled.
Tonight, I made a beef and daikon soup with the stew meat, daikon, Maui onions, Hamakua Mushrooms Kea Hon Shimeji, and more of the Big Island smoked pork. Just some salt, pepper, and a piece of star anise was all it needed.
3 comments:
How/where do you buy the Big Island pork?
it's not available commercially at the moment, at least not that i know of on oahu...
Very interesting posts. I work with La Cense Beef, they are a "Grass Fed Beef
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ranch located in Montana. They sell their delicious cuts of beef online directly to the customer. That way you can get their excellant quailty beef sent directly to your door. Their are so many health benefits to eating grass fed beef, everyone needs to make the switch.
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