Buy Local Food : If you were to turn back the clock 100 years, what would gardeners in your area be growing? Try regional heirloom varieties of garden standbys such as beans, squash, tomatoes and melons, which were selected for their flavors and reliability in the days when personal survival often depended upon a garden’s success. Appalachian “greasy” beans or creamy New England-bred butternut squash can help open the door to great flavors from the past.

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Buy Local Food : Take a child shopping with you, pick up one of the offending products and say quite loudly "Well we’re not buying that, think of the energy it’s used up just getting here!"

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Buy Local Food : ...but at the same time, figure out what makes sense. It is more energy efficient to raise lambs in New Zealand and ship them to the UK than to raise them in the UK, because New Zealand lamb farming is more energy efficient. It is also more energy efficient to buy produce raised in Spain, than produce that has to be grown in greenhouses in the UK. Baby steps require figuring out which things make sense and which don't.

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About beef

You are usually better doing your shopping at a proper butcher instead of a self-service store. A specialist butcher should really serve a better range of beef cuts than the self-service store, he will know the history of his beef, is more likely to have looked after it correctly, and he will be able to advise you on how best too cook it.

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Beef is an awful lot more in demand in the United states than anyplace else in the world. If you were to total all the steaks, burgers and chilis devoured on the planet, you would discover that the Usa is responsible for almost 25% of it.

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Empanada (Meat Pie) Recipe
Empanada (Meat Pie) Category Beef Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

----------------------------------FILLING---------------------------------- 1 lb Ground Beef

2 Garlic Cloves, Minced

2 Hard Boiled Eggs

Cold, Chopped 1/4 c Milk

Salt & Black Pepper Raisins, To Taste Green Olives, Chopped 1 pn Crushed Red Pepper

Cooking Oil 1 lg Onion, Chopped

Pastry Dough Fry onions in cooking oil until soft. Add minced garlic and brown lightly. Drain oil. Add ground beef to onions and saute until meat turns a light brown. Add chopped olives, eggs, salt and black pepper, raisins, pinch of red pepper and milk. Allow to simmer (uncovered) over low heat for 5 mins. PASTRY DOUGH: Any good grade of commercial pie crust mix will give satisfactory results -or- use your own favorite recipe .... Roll out dough 1/8" thickness and cut with a 5" cutter. Place meat filling on one side of

the dough. Fold the other side over the filling and pinch the edges. Deep fry in hot cooking oil until crisp and brown .. or .. bake in a 400?F oven until the crust is a golden brown Yields 5 meat pies Posted by Jodi Edmundson

 
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