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Homedad--

I strongly suspect that you will taste a difference. Fat content/marbling aside the meat itself definitely tastes different.

Have you ever had wild duck as opposed to farm-raised? I'll never forget the ducks I got from a hunter friend -- it literally tasted of the seafood on which it ate. But that's really more about "gaminess".

I'm not saying grass fed is better or worse, just different. Will be interested to see your feedback on it.

Rich

Beef from Idaho??? Now that is crazy talk. Potato fed cows?

Seriously though, let us know how to turns out.

Yep, they call them Pows.

My family had a cattle ranch in Nevada and I would spend my summers there as a kid. It was all free range. The beef we slaughtered for our freezer spoiled me for life. Then I moved to Alaska and had moose. Moose is quite a treat….lower in fat, no wild game taste. Unfortunately after figuring out how much it costs to gear up, kill one and then butcher it, it was running about $20 a pound. I eat beef again…

I’ve been on a flank steak kick lately. I’ve found that if I marinate it for about 48 hours then grill it, it’s very tender, tastes great and pretty low in fat / cholesterol.

A good flank steak marinade is equal parts soy and red wine, a bunch of crushed garlic, and red pepper flakes to taste. Yummy.

That does sound good Peter. I've got a couple from cooking light. They were both very good. If I cut it across the grain after grilling it, it just flakes apart like a slow cooked brisket (my favorite).

Medallions of elk served with a portabello mushroom pepercorn sauce. Yummy!!

I found moose quite tasty, but rather chewy, but we tried it bbqed medium rare sans marinade.

OTOH, I just chowed down on a pack of kd with a few peas mixed in. I'm gonna have to do something special later this week to make up for this.

I haven't checked in on an Axiom forum for a while and was quite surprised to see a grass fed beef link. I am farming here in western Minnesota after 20 years of city life. My wife and I are very involved with the "local" foods movement. We are in the process of certifying our farm for organic crop production and beginning a grass fed beef enterprise on our farm. Hopefully within a couple of years we'll have grass fed beef for sale. We are fortunate to have grass fed beef readily available and have been very happy with the beef that we have purchased in the past few months.

Grass fed beef can be very lean so it is important to not to overcook it. In our experience it is very similar to buffalo. We've had great luck grilling steaks and keeping them a little on the rare side. Yesterday we grilled sirloins to feed my (very skeptical) parents and my very particular father thought they were some of the best steaks he had ever eaten. We cook our roasts at a lower heat than normal and try to use a little more additional liquid while cooking. I'm surrounded by my twin 4 year old boys at the moment and can't take the time to post a few links to some websites that might be valuable. I'll try to get back to the thread soon, but PM me if you would like and I'll respond with more information.

UPS should be delivering my steaks on Thur. in time for dinner, I'm really looking forward to trying them. I'm just crossing my fingers that I cook them right.

I've already found cooking tips and recipes to try, I just have to avoid operator error

A good resource I've found on the net has been Eat Wild, a lot of interesting information.

jorge016, good luck to you and your family that's really a cool thing you are doing, thanks for sharing.

I thought this thread was going to be about country girls