The art (and science) of cooking nourishing meals using grass fed beef
By choosing grass fed beef, you likely appreciate its superior health benefits from cattle grazing diverse pastures – practices we follow on our Indian farm under Australian guidance. This includes raising our beef in a chemical free environment.
Yet, simple home techniques can further enhance the nourishing qualities of your beef dishes.
The wonders of collagen
Selecting various grass fed beef cuts, especially for slow cooking, supports optimal health.
Collagen abounds in many cuts, visible as pale seams in chuck steak or osso bucco, and as connective tissue near bones in blade steak or ribs.
When cooked slowly, collagen transforms into gelatine, a pure protein with anti-stress, anti-inflammatory, healing, and digestive benefits.
Keep the collagen intact during cooking – simply chop the beef and add to the pot. It melts into liquid, enriching your dish with nutrition, depth of flavor, and tender, melt-in-your-mouth texture.
It’s all about balance
Collagen-rich cuts balance muscle meats, which have amino acids that may promote inflammation, aging, or thyroid issues without counterparts from collagen.
A full range of beef cuts achieves this harmony, offering meal variety too.
While tender steaks delight, slow-cooked Thai or Indian curries with yogurt and coriander shine in summer.
On winter days, a robust beef and red wine casserole with mashed potato and Italian parsley warms deeply.
Endless options await! Explore cuts in our grass fed beef hampers.
All the cuts
Common polyunsaturated fats like sunflower, canola, cottonseed, or soy oils harm health, while saturated fats protect.
Conscious eaters now prioritize saturated fats, vital for children’s growth. They form hormones, cell membranes, support heart, liver, immunity, satiety, bone calcium uptake, and stress reduction.
Polyunsaturated fats amplify stress: under strain, adrenaline taps liver glycogen and releases stored fats – often these if diet-heavy, fueling a vicious cortisol cycle toward diseases like Alzheimer’s, cancer, or stroke.
Saturated fats feature in grass fed beef, butter, coconut oil, eggs, tallow; olive oil suits cold drizzles.
For a grass fed Beef and Guinness pie, use only butter and tallow in pastry! Opt for body-nourishing choices.
Choose saturated fats
Would you be surprised if we told you the effects of common everyday polyunsaturated fats (sunflower, canola, cottonseed and soy oil) are very harmful to the body? And that saturated fats are actually protective?
Many people are now doing their research, making conscious decisions and choosing saturated fats in their diet. They are an essential part of our diet – especially for young, growing children.
Saturated fats are the building blocks for many hormones and for the body’s cell membranes; they aid in heart and liver health, they enhance our immunity and they satiate us – helping us feel fuller for longer.
Saturated fats are also important for bone health – for getting calcium into your bones.
They actually help us deal with minimising any stress reaction in our bodies. Under the influence of the polyunsaturated fats (PUFA’s) however, the stress response can become self-amplifying.
Saturated fats are the fats contained in grass fed red meats, butter, coconut oil, eggs and tallow. Olive oil is the one polyunsaturated fat that is a ‘good guy’, just don’t heat it too high – it’s best kept to drizzle on salads.
Polyunsaturated fats actually amplify the stress response in the body. When our body is stressed (low on fuel, we haven’t eaten for a while or we’re under mental strain), our adrenaline levels rise, which draws on glycogen stores in the liver to cope. This is fine and the way it is meant to happen, except that many people in modern society are under chronic stress… from mind stress or from continually not fueling the body properly… and these stores are not there to draw on.
The Best for Our Families
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