When we ran the restaurant we were never able to get away and enjoy fun food events that usually took place on weekends. So when we heard about this bison “bash” we were in! I mean how can you go wrong? Chef Chris Whittaker from Forage was cooking, Julia from Urban Digs was taking slow food, and heck, there was beer there! What a great couple of days we had. We ate bison tacos, bison burgers, and bison rib eyes. Vegetables were cooked over an open fire, I especially enjoyed the scapes. They caramelized over the fire, which gave them a sweet and smokey flavor, then the addition of salt turned them into something resembling a bar snack. If you could do that with all veggies I’m sure we’d be eating more of them. Besides the food we had a great tour of the ranch. We had served this bison a few times at the restaurant and have purchased it from Urban Digs to eat at home, so it was great to see and hear the story behind it. Most of all though, it was a great setting to meet new people, chat with old acquaintances, and just have a great time!
Learn about the ranch on their website: http://www.turtlevalleyranch.com/
To purchase bison, visit Urban Digs at: http://www.urbandigsfarm.com/pages/contact-us
Shannon and I on the trip to Chase. We obviously don’t get out much!
A nice cold beer waiting for us when we arrived at the ranch!
Were Saturdays bison rib eye was going to be cooked!
The ranch had some nice cool areas. (The weekend was smoking hot)
Chef Chris manning the barbeque
Bison skirt steaks for the the tacos!
Bison tacos!
Made to many smart ass comments about needing something vegetarian and gluten free, so this is what I was served!
Chef Chris may have been the man with the “meat”, but his dog Moose was the real hit with ladies!
Friday night was drinks by the fire
Saturday lunch was bison burgers with all the fixens!
Hay ride tour of the ranch! I got to tell you, my ass hurt after that!
Cabbage over the fire. They finished this by chopping it up and tossing with pickle juice.
More cabbage
The awesome garlic scapes I was telling you about
Searing off some bison liver!
I love liver, Shannon not so much. But she really enjoyed it cooked like this. It was served fairly rare with caramelized onion on top
Saturday dinner buffet
No sarcastic comments by me tonight so I go more than watermelon! Bison rib eye, gravy, kale salad, scapes, cabbage and potato salad!
I could have sat all day watching these rib eyes turn!
The story off how the boys got into bison ranching!