Desserts are often just one note, all sweet — and while that can be delicious, it sometimes lacks a certain complexity. Enter bacon: With its crisp texture and salty, savory flavor, it can make for a truly ideal dessert enhancer. Just as a pinch of flaky salt can wake up…
Dennis Keohane
6 One-Pan Meaty Recipes for Busy Weeknights
There are some nights when the idea of cooking dinner and then slaving over a pile of post-meal dishes just seems impossible. This mostly happens on Mondays for us, but no day is truly safe. But there is a solution: One-pan recipes. It doesn’t matter what kind of pan; baking…
7 Easy, Protein-Rich Meals for Active People
Whether you’re an athlete training for an event or a busy parent rushing from work to managing kids and a household, you need your body in condition to meet your goals. And when it comes to fueling that body, there are certain nutritional guidelines that can help get you the…
The Best Cuts of Meat for Feeding a Crowd
Whether you have a large family, or just love to entertain, feeding a big group can be a lot of fun as well as a lot of work. Having a large cut of meat that doesn’t require a ton of hands-on cooking is key to making large-scale mealtimes run smoothly…
Top Sirloin Cap (a.k.a. Coulotte): What You Need to Know
One of the delights of being a ButcherBox member is getting to try out unique, difficult to find, and often under-appreciated cuts of beef, pork, and chicken included in our monthly curated boxes. (Of course, it’s awesome getting your favorites, too.) One of those less-common cuts: Sirloin cap. Sirloin cap comes from…
How to Cook a Burger, an Amazing Grass-fed Cheeseburger
The staple of any good cookout, whether it’s part of a celebration – like the 4th of July, a summer birthday, or just a June Saturday — is the cheeseburger. Cooking a burger is one of the most simple things you can do. Using grass-fed beef is a way to…
Chimichurri Steak Sauce – The Easiest Way to Add Flavor to a Steak
Whether as a marinade or a sauce, it’s tough to deny that one of the best complements to a good steak is some freshly made chimichurri sauce. Chimichurri sauce is easy to make, adds immense flavor, and has a long tradition of making meat taste better. A favorite in Latin…
Flat Iron Steak – A Delicious Restaurant Favorite You Can Cook at Home
Flat iron steak shouldn’t be so delicious. It’s named after a domestic appliance, it can be hard to find outside of restaurants, and it comes from an area of the cow that was long considered too tough to produce any tender, enjoyable steaks. But if you’ve ever had a perfectly…
Bacon Candy Recipe: How To Make Candied Bacon
Like most everyone who enjoys a treat now and then, we here at ButcherBox have a bit of a sweet tooth. It might be a bit odd to hand out candied bacon — or pig candy as it’s known in different parts of the country — to the kiddos who…
Country-Style Ribs – Sweet, Tender, and Boneless
Pork ribs are all about love. If you are smoking them, baking them, or grilling them on your own — hopefully with a homemade backyard smoker — you know that that this form of BBQ rib love involves both labor and time. Eating some delicious barbecue baby back ribs or…
Pork Butt – Pulled, Smoked, or Slow-Cooked, This Cut is Not What You Think
Check out our great coffee-rubbed pulled-pork recipe from Chef Yankel below. Pork butt is a product that we take very seriously here at ButcherBox despite its rather silly-sounding name. We take a bit of regional pride in the cut, which is also widely known in the U.S. as Boston butt….
Ribeye Roast – For Special Occasions, Sunday Dinner, or Anytime
We believe the best way to bring friends together is over a delicious cut of grass-fed, grass-finished beef. Our favorite cut to share with others is the ribeye roast. Perfectly-cooked, the ribeye roast goes well with an array of side dishes, red wine, and good friends. What Exactly is a…