How to FARM to PLATE : growing confident and adventurous cooks
Want to learn more about cooking new beef or lamb cuts?
Want to re-try cooking a beef or lamb cut that didn’t eat as you had hoped?
Here we talk you through some ideas of . . .
How to FARM to PLATE
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Recipe Ideas and Cooking Tips ————>>> Inspiration and Confidence
Here you can find recipe ideas and cooking tips to grow inspiration and confidence in cooking a new beef or lamb cut for an easy family meal that will become a family favourite and asked for time and time again. As well as find our more about where the cuts come from on the sheep or cow.
The number and type of cuts from a whole lamb or whole cow can seem a lot.
This is even the case for us farmers, who have enjoyed our own meat from our own farm for many years. Overtime we have learnt more and would like to share a little about the optimal cooking methods to match with beef or lamb cuts to make easy family meal times for your family, along with succulent and flavour filled eating.
How to cook cuts for succulent, delicious, tender and mouth watering enjoyment at home!
Cuts matched to cooking style
Here we have matched cut offerings with cooking styles.
Premium Cuts are most often suited to BBQ, frying or smoking.
Comfort Cuts are most often suited to cooking low and slow, slow cooker, pressure cooker (for the slow flavour in a fast timeline) or smoking.
Mince is the ever versatile option, which matches well with a range of recipes and cooking styles. Pan frying, baking, BBQ , Slow Cooker or Pressure Cooker.
Sausages and Burgers are well suited to BBQ, pan frying or oven baking.
Organs are well suited to saute or pan frying
Suet is well suited to low slow cooking (tallow).
Bones for Bone Broth are well suited to low slow cooking.
Tried and tested recipes to match beef and lamb cuts
We share recipes which are our family favourites, recipes from our favourite chefs, as well as recipes from from Australian Lamb, Australian Beef and Aussie Beef and Lamb. To help you make easy family meal times with beef or lamb cuts that may be unfamilar. Or perhaps you may have had a cooking experience with a beef or lamb cut in the past that didn’t eat as you had hoped. We are here to help you to try cooking a new cut with a new recipe or to re-try cooking a beef or lamb cut with a different cooking style. Succulent and flavourful eating of beef and lamb is all about matching the cut and the cooking style.
“Succulent and flavourful eating of beef and lamb is all about matching the cut and the cooking style.”
Lamb Cuts
Premium Lamb Cuts
Rib Rack Roasts (trimmed)
This is the most sought after part of the lamb. It is often the first image that comes to many people mind when they think of lamb. Rib rack roasts look spectacular and the eating matches the promise made by their appearance. Here is a delightful recipe from Maggie Beer for Rack of Lamb with Quince Glaze. This lamb rack features Maggie’s signature quince and verjuice feature in this recipe. My paternal Nana had a quince tree in her garden. The quinces were a little like cricket balls, even when poached. In recent years we have been lucky to be gifted a few bags of local quinces and the whole family has been amazed to watch the quinces turn to a lovely soft pink when poaching. So lovely.
Loin chops
Marion Grasby Thai-style Grilled Lamb Panang Cutlets on You Tube. Marion Grasby’s Thai-style Grilled Lamb Panang Cutlets Recipe. Marion also recommends Loin chops for this delicious recipe. #sharethelamb
Tenderloin
This is a very special meal for an exceptional quality cut of lamb. The tenderloin, as the name suggests, is exceptional eating quality. Crusted Aussie Lamb Tenderloin with roasted sweet potato and kale has and cherry chipotle chutney from Chef Pam Smith. Here for this tasty receipe.
Lamb Comfort Cuts
Forequarter Chops
Ednas Savory Chops Savoury chops are a family favourite in our family. They are inspired by the recipe of a dear friends Mum and have become much loved by our family. They are a great recipe to put together before school drop off, leave cooking in the oven on low, turn the oven up for the last hour and have an easy family dinner ready at tea time.
Shanks
Poh’s Delicious Lamb Shank Ragu on You Tube. In a crockpot express (like an Instant Pot) cooked in 35 minutes instead of 3 hours cooking in a slow cooker.
Neck chops
These lovely lamb neck chops cooked with Moroccan Spices make for a lovely family meal. Ready in 25 Minutes. Find the recipe for Moroccan Chops with Roasted Potato and Califlower here
Shoulder Roast
Maggie Beer Slow Cooked Lamb Shoulder on You Tube. Maggie Beer Slow Cooked Shoulder Lamb Recipe Maggie Beer is such a south australian icon and so exceptionally talented in her cooking and business, she can make anything extra delicious. This slow cooked lamb shoulder is no exception! #cookingwithmaggie
Half Roast
If you haven’t already got a rosemary bush growing in your garden, plant one today, this is my first tip! Rosemary is ridiculously easy to grow and pairs perfectly with all lamb dishes! I love a bed of rosemary stalks in the bottom of a roasting dish with a few crushed garlic cloves, the half lamb leg on top, then douse with olive oil and sprinkle with sea salt and black pepper. The most simple and easy way to cook a half leg of lamb. Cook for about 50 minutes, check to see if cooked through with a meat thermotre. Cover, let rest and calve. Enjoy with roast spuds and pumpkin, gravy and peas and corn.
Sausages/Mince
Greek flavours pair perfectly with lamb mince. Lamb Sausages (Keftedes) paired with a lovely greek salad and some salty crumby feta and olives. It really doesn’t get any better!
Beef Cuts
Premium Beef Cuts
Tomahawke
Inspiration from the The Tony Hawke Pizza from Lost in a Forest, Uraidla. See the Facebook Post Here. Lost in a Forest is a wood oven wine bar in beautiful Uraidla. Serving cheffed artisanal pizzas from locally sourced ingredients, paired with a stunning wine list featuring local drops, SA craft tins and a gin list to die for. Visit the Lost in a Forest Website Here.
Tips for cooking the Tomahawke (or Cattlemans Cutlet) at home here.
T-bone
T-Bone Steaks with Herbs and Peppercorns. Find the receipe at Australian Beef Here. This is a favourite cut of Mr Farmers!
Fillet
Australian Gourmet Traveller Beef Wellington Recipe using both the fillet and suet.
Topside
Vietnamese Topside Rolls with pickled vegetables. Find the Recipe here at Australian Beef. A beautiful fresh meal for a spring evening. An easy family meal, as the topside could be cooking through the day in a slow cooker.
Comfort Cuts
Meat for Slow Cooking
Curtis Stone Braised Beef Tacos on You Tube. Curtis Stone Braised Beef Tacos Recipe Here (in You Tube video comments). This is one of our family favourites! We cook it in our Instant Pot Pressure Cooker for a quick and tender burrito filling. Can also be slow cooked in the oven as Curtis’ has here, or in your slow cooker.
Corned Silverside
Here is a great guide on how to cook Corned Beef on the Australian Beef website. This is how I cook it, with the addidtion of carrots into the aromatics and placing it in the slow cooker in the morning and leaving it to cook on high for at least 6 hours. We love our corned beef with a cheesey sauce, mash, carrots and peas. My tip is to get the beef out of the freezer two days before cooking and let it thoroughly defrost in the fridge, to ensure you are cooking from defrosted. I still remember enjoying a school lunch sandwich of corned beef with tomato sauce, delicious!
Rump Roast
Jamie Olivers Perfect Roast Beef on You Tube. Jamie Olivers Perfect Roast Beef Recipe Here. Jamie talks about three different beef roast cuts and gives tips for cooking these “lovely jubbly!”
Diced Steak
Joanna Gaines all time favourite supper of Beef Tips. Find the recipe here on the Taste of Home Blog. Use diced beef in the slow cooker for this hearty and flavour filled easy family meal. Amazing!
Mince
Julie Goodwin’s Beef Nachos Recipe Here. There is something about Mexican food that is just so jolly delicious and such a winner with our kids. I have wonderful memories of meals out at Montezumas at the Bay, in Glenelg when I lived in the city! So a dish of nachos is always much enjoyed in our home.
Sausages
Bangers and Mash recipe here from the lovely Nagi at Recipe Tin Eats on You Tube. Here is the Bangers and Mash Recipe from Recipe Tin Eats. I recall meeting a school friend at a cosy little pub in London in the dark of winter and enjoying such a homely and delicious meal of Bangers and Mash. It is now a family favourite with the addition of carrot rounds (hay bales) and peas picked and shelled from Grandpas garden,
Organs
Organs are a particularly nutritiously dense parts of the cow. Kidneys, Heart, Liver, Brains and Suet (raw fat) are all a part of the whole animal farm to plate experience. For more information about cooking organs, please visit the Paleo Leap here.
Organs can be a nutritious protein source for people seeking a
paleo (“caveman”) diet, eating food in its most natural state for optimal health.
Keto is choosing protein and fat with low carbohydrates for the body tissues to access their required macronutrients, then to encourage the body to burn fat through ketosis, for optimal healthy weight and blood sugar control. For info on Paleo or Keto, please click here.
Bones for Bone Broth
Making Bone Broth on You Tube. Here at The Spooned Fork you you can learn how to make a nourishing bone broth, why bone broth is so hot right now and what the benefits are of consuming bone broth.
Easy Family Meal Times (Video) Beef and Lamb Cuts Library
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Easy Family Meal Times (Video) Beef and Lamb Cuts Library -----------------------------
Find our Beef and Lamc Cuts Video Library HERE with all the You Tube videos listed here in one place, plus a bonus video from the lovely Marion Grasby! Keep you eye on the new video library as I will add new linked videos here featuring a range of beef and lamb cuts, over time.
We recommend these excellent pages from Australian Lamb and Australian Beef which provide
a filter by cut option for recipe inspiration
a very clear illustration of where the cuts come from on the animal,
what the name of the cuts are
and most importantly, how to cook each specific beef or lamb cut for it to be it’s most succulent, delicious, tender and mouth watering enjoyment for your easy family meal times.
We hope that sharing this information helps you find the great match of cooking style to beef and lamb cuts that you may not have tried cooking before. Or have tried cooking before but the eating didn’t match what you had hoped for. Our goal is to help you to make easy meal times for your family, through learning more about how to find the perfect cooking style and recipe match to your beef or lamb cut for succulent and flavour full eating at family meal times.
Tell us . . . .
We would love to hear from you about what works well in your family, and also how we can help with easy family meal times of beef and lamb cuts recipes. Email me at peppermintridgefarmco@gmail.com
Oh My! Im feeling hungry and inspired after reading and watching all these wonderful beef and lamb recipes! Time to hit the freezer to get some meat out for dinner!
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