MITCHELL'S KITCHEN In the
Kitchen with Farmer Mitch
Mitch's Favorite Meat Loaf
Simple, moist and flavourful!
1-2.lbs Good Family Farms Ground Beef
3/4 cup sour dough bread (sliced in very small chunks)
3/4 finely chopped onion
1/2 cup milk (or milk alternative)
1 Good Family Farms Organic Egg
1 tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
2-3 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp pepper
4 Dill pickles chopped finely
1 tbsp dijon mustard
1tbsp maple syrup
- Combine ground beef, sour dough bread, onions, milk, egg, pickles, Worcestershire, mustard, maple syrup, salt and pepper. Pack thoroughly into a loaf pan.
- Bake on 350 degrees F for 1 hour. Use fat around loaf as a sauce and add lots to you loaf once its sliced.
- Makes roughly 6 servings
For a variation:
- Stir in 1/2 cup shredded carrots and/or organic hard cheese
- Boil and mash 4 sweet potatoes with milk and butter. place on top of meatloaf with 30 mins of cook time left.
- Spread an organic ketchup all over the top and before putting it in the oven
Slow Cooked Bone Broth
Healing drink for Gut and joint health
1 package Good Family Farms Beef Bones/ Pork Bones/ Chicken Bones or Marrow Bones
2-4 yellow/white onions chopped (optional)
2-4 carrots chopped (optional)
2-4 celery sticks chopped (optional)
2-4 cloves of garlic sliced in chunks (optional)
2 tbsp salt
1 tsp pepper
fresh thyme or fresh parsley
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- Sear bones on cast iron pan on each side for a few minutes (this is optional but can add extra flavour to your broth)
- Place bones, herbs and vegetables (if using) into large pot (as large as you have!). Completely cover all ingredients with water
- Bring to a boil and once reached, reduce to simmer
- Leave bones to simmer for as long as possible - the longer the better - both is generally done when it turns a rich brown colour and has lots of flavour
- Beef + marrow bones = 12 -24 hours
- chicken bones = 6-8 hours
- all other bones = 10-12 hours
- Strain broth over bowl using mesh strainer
- add more salt/ pepper/ seasoning of your choice to taste
- Pour broth into glass jars and let cool before freezing
- Drink a glass heated up every day! Can be used in replacement of coffee or teas
Grass Fed Beef Roasts
Brisket, Sirloin Tip, Blade, Cross Rib Roast
Optional: Take roast out of package and place on draining tray. Dry outside with cloth to remove excess moisture. Cover roast in salt and let sit on draining tray in fridge over night. Roast can also be covered in other herbs and spices if you would like. Roast can also sit in raw milk over night to tenderize
When ready to cook:
- Put roast in crock pot or in oven pan. Pour in water so that roast sits in roughly an inch
- Cover roast with sea salt, pepper, seasoning .. dont be shy, add salt! it will really bring out the flavour in your roast
- Chop garlic and onions and place around roast
- * The KEY to Grass Fed Beef is to cook LOW AND SLOW - whether in the oven or crock pot
- Cook in oven at 200 degrees F for 6-8 hours
- Cook in crock pot on LOW HEAT for 6-8 hours
- Add chopped sweet potato, carrots, other root vegetables when there 2 hours left of cooking time (optional)