Burgundy Pasture Beef
Heather and I have begun to be a little more picky in our food choices as of late. I'm not saying we're eating more healthy, but we're definitely trying to find higher a quality food. Our current breakdown of food purchasing goes like this: dairy from Braums, produce from Sprouts or Central Market, Asian food from the Asian supermarket in Carrollton, and packaged/processed food from Wal-Mart.
Central Market also has a great butcher, deli, and cheese selection. The produce from there is locally sourced when possible and the next best thing to going all the way to the downtown Dallas farmers market. Sprouts is much closer but shares the same mentality for produce. This means we still go to Central Market for deli and uncooked meats. Heather and I discussed this and decided it wasn't complex enough (sarcasm), so instead we've decided to begin to order our non-steak beef cuts from a local ranch. We've made one order through burgundy pasture beef, and so far we've been really happy with the quality. There is one issue... this is actually the reason I specified non-steak cuts. We're spoiled. There's nothing like a dry-aged, seared, hand picked prime rib-eye from the Central Market butcher. Oh sure the beef might be technically inferior due to being grain fed and lazy rather than the grass fed free range beef from burgundy pasture beef, but it melts in your mouth. The rib-eye from burgundy was a little tough but amazingly enough tasted more beefy than anything I had eaten in recent memory. For this reason all our stew, ground, roast, or any other beef that isn't a nice rib-eye is coming from Burgundy Pasture Beef. I suggest checking out their website if you're in North Texas. It has a nice color scheme
I could evangelize about cattle health, organic whatever, and natural feed, but their website does plenty of evangelizing and I personally am not ordering from them for those reasons. I only have 2 reasons: flavor and location. I'm a fan of supporting local growers (Braum's sources their eggs from a farm in Prosper Texas... about 15 minutes from us), and the price and flavor are welcome, especially because it's delivered to one of our parent's houses within 3 days of our order. The hilarious part is that prior to Burgundy Beef, the beefiest meat I had eaten was Bison.
Central Market also has a great butcher, deli, and cheese selection. The produce from there is locally sourced when possible and the next best thing to going all the way to the downtown Dallas farmers market. Sprouts is much closer but shares the same mentality for produce. This means we still go to Central Market for deli and uncooked meats. Heather and I discussed this and decided it wasn't complex enough (sarcasm), so instead we've decided to begin to order our non-steak beef cuts from a local ranch. We've made one order through burgundy pasture beef, and so far we've been really happy with the quality. There is one issue... this is actually the reason I specified non-steak cuts. We're spoiled. There's nothing like a dry-aged, seared, hand picked prime rib-eye from the Central Market butcher. Oh sure the beef might be technically inferior due to being grain fed and lazy rather than the grass fed free range beef from burgundy pasture beef, but it melts in your mouth. The rib-eye from burgundy was a little tough but amazingly enough tasted more beefy than anything I had eaten in recent memory. For this reason all our stew, ground, roast, or any other beef that isn't a nice rib-eye is coming from Burgundy Pasture Beef. I suggest checking out their website if you're in North Texas. It has a nice color scheme
I could evangelize about cattle health, organic whatever, and natural feed, but their website does plenty of evangelizing and I personally am not ordering from them for those reasons. I only have 2 reasons: flavor and location. I'm a fan of supporting local growers (Braum's sources their eggs from a farm in Prosper Texas... about 15 minutes from us), and the price and flavor are welcome, especially because it's delivered to one of our parent's houses within 3 days of our order. The hilarious part is that prior to Burgundy Beef, the beefiest meat I had eaten was Bison.
I think it's awesome that you can shop at so many stores to get just what you want. I wish we had that option. This summer, if we weren't moving, we were going to start buying our meat at the farmers' market. Maybe we will look into Burgundy Beef.
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