Farmer Portraits: Missouri Legacy Beef
Located in Salisbury, MO Mark and Susie have been trying to raise cattle like his grandfather did 100 years ago. The cattle are combination grass and grain fed, and they have well over 1000 acres for the cattle to graze and roam on. Good mission, great beef. I’m going to be making tacos de lengua this weekend (tongue!) and eating the smoked brisket soon too.
Category: Interviews | Tags: beef, cattle, Farm, farmer, missouri, portraits 4 comments »
May 6th, 2009 at 11:39 am
1. The picture is incredible. How do you SEE things like that!
2. Mark and Susie look like a ton of fun. His hat tipped me off to his potentially great personality.
May 6th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
May we have the recipe for tacos de lengua, please? That would make a great food post.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
I agree Kat, its a great shot!
May 11th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
[...] We realized, if we’re going to eat the spinal muscles (T-bone) and diaphragm (skirt steak) of cattle, we shouldn’t squirm over tongue just because someone couldn’t come up with a more marketable name for it. So at a Mexican restaurant in LA, Michael ordered a huaruche de lengua. It was awesome. A month or so later we made tongue and oxtail stew. Friday it was tongue tacos after Michael got a tongue from Missouri Legacy Beef. (See Michael’s portrait of Mark and Susie here.) [...]