Ground Bison meat is very lean and can be unforgiving to the common practices many use when making beef burgers. As we approach burger season we wanted to share with you our top ten tips for cooking the perfect bison burger. 10 Tips for Cooking Bison Burgers Don’t add salt until after the bison burger patties are formed! Ever. Even a little … [Read more...]
Voted Grand Champions for our Chili Recipe Again in 2017
The Franklin Farmer’s Market held the 2nd Annual Local Farmers Chili Cook-Off on March 25, 2017 and we won for the second year in a row. Customers came from all over Middle Tennessee to Taste, Vote and Enjoy Chili prepared with meats from local farms. The Franklin Farmers market customers voted Red Cedar Bison the best tasting chili of the first … [Read more...]
Instant Pot Craze
Have you joined the Instant Pot craze? Or are you wondering why in the world your friends are suddenly raving about all the things they made in their brand new Instant Pot? Still wondering what it is? Well, basically, if a crock pot and a pressure cooker had a baby, it would be the Instant Pot. Everyone and their mother seem to have purchased an … [Read more...]
2017 New Year’s Resolutions Support
The American Heart Association recommends bison meat as a healthy lean red meat. (Bison is listed as buffalo on the AHA website.) As if that isn’t the best endorsement ever there are also several other diet plans trending as we ring in the new year that suggest eating lean meats that are high in protein. Grass-fed bison that is also grass-finished … [Read more...]
Mindful Meat Consumption
Mindful meat consumption means that no part of the bison that could possibly be eaten is tossed out. Wasting valuable parts of a whole bison does not make sense from an economic or environmental standpoint. We often snicker at how funny it sounds to say, “Sorry, we are all out of tongue today” or “We no hearts today” at the market, but it does … [Read more...]
Raw Dog Food
Raw feeding is all the rage these days and for good reason. I (Kayla of RCB) first discovered the wonders of feeding your dog raw food when I went to the BlogPaws conference in Nashville, TN. No sooner did I start researching raw food for dogs than a customer approached our booth at the Franklin Farmers Market in need bison meat for their dog. She … [Read more...]
Meat Allergies
We often get asked if bison meat is hypoallergenic, although here is no scientific evidence to support the claim, we have found more and more people switching to bison due to allergic reactions to other meats. It is very uncommon to have an allergy to bison meat. The most up-to-date scientific information available indicates that an allergic … [Read more...]
Umami, What!?
Umami Dust is an essential for any kitchen, but most people have never heard of it. We discovered it while researching unique flavors for bison burger recipes. Umami is the fifth flavor. The first four flavors are sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Umami is a flavor all to itself—not quite describable other than to say that it is the fifth … [Read more...]
Voted Grand Champions for our Chili Recipe
The Franklin Farmer's Market held the first Local Farmers Chili Cook-Off on March 5, 2016. Red Cedar Bison entered our Not Your Mama's Bison Chili Recipe into the competition. Customers came from all over Middle Tennessee to Taste, Vote and Enjoy Chili prepared with meats from local farms. The Franklin Farmers market customers overwhelmingly voted … [Read more...]
USDA Revokes Grass Fed Label Standard
Meat labeling became murky when Congress repealed Country-of-Origin-Labeling (COOL) standards last month, but now the waters are even further muddied by the USDA's move to revoke the grass fed label as well. On January 12, 2016 the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) rescinded the labeling standard for grass fed … [Read more...]
The End of Country of Origin Labeling
The Country-of-Origin-Labeling (COOL) regulations for beef and pork were repealed by Congress and signed by President Obama on December 18, 2015. The repeal of COOL was in response to pressure applied by the World Trade Organizations (WHO). According to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, effective immediately the USDA is not enforcing COOL … [Read more...]
