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Excellent!
By: DD Burlin (Oct 10, 2009)
The meats from Cedar Valley are delicious. In fact, the other day I picked up some conventionally, mass-produced chicken and served it to my family. The reactions... "Why is this so spongy? Is this pork?" and no one finished theirs. We've gotten spoiled by the taste of meats as nature intended for them to taste. The eggs are fantastic too. The bright yellow/orange yolks make the pancakes I've made with some of them look like something Martha Stewart would make to celebrate the fall harvest. We've just signed up for another share, and will continue to do so.
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Excellent CSA!
By: Jess Largent (Jul 19, 2009)
I love getting my meat CSA from Cedar Valley every month. It is so important to me to know that the meat I eat was raised in a humane, sustainable way. The quality is excellent and I find that the variety (some value added products like hamburger patties, brats, and sausage and some basic cuts and whole chickens) works very well. I split the share with my boyfriend and it works out nicely; we like having meat to share at cook outs and having a nice variety in the freezer. He is a chef and has cooked with meat from many different local farmers and has nothing but good things to say about quality-- especially the chickens!
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AMAZING, QUALITY, GOODNESS!!!
By: Jeanine Dropkowski (May 17, 2009)
So I accidentially turned on channel 7's 190north show one Sunday evening and they were talking about sustainable farms. This was truely my lucky day, we had made steaks earlier that day, and they tasted like cardboard...So I began my quest to find farm raised beef/chicken and eggs......I would really love to find dairy too, but who knows?!!
Anyways, I called and talked to Beth about the variety and how it all works, bing bang boom, I sent in my check and I have already made my first roast chicken (of my life) and it was Fantastic.
The EGGS.....its kinda funny, thats the color healthy eggs are supposed to be.........who knew..........and super tastey. I made spaghetti cabonara and practially licked the pot the sauce was so tastey!!!!!
Keep up the good work Osmunds! We are so happy we are part of your farming community!!
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Best quality meat products, hands down!
By: Carri (May 13, 2009)
We have been getting shares from Cedar Valley for about a year now, and it has changed us forever. We can't even enjoy a meal out anymore because it doesn't taste like food compared to what we have at home. It's been so exciting every month to open our share and start picking out recipes for what we have. We have baked chicken on sunday nights and it's always juicy and tender. The steak is truly the best steak I have ever eaten, and I've eaten at plenty of famous steakhouses. The pork chops are my favorite. They're so good on their own they don't require any seasoning but a crumble of rosemary. And the eggs... I could go on about the eggs! Paired with their ham steak or bacon, you have a breakfast fit for a king! Everything they give us gets an A+, even hot dogs!
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Good!
By: Rebecca Steimer (Apr 29, 2009)
We bought a three month subscription and enjoyed the sausage, beef and eggs. The chicken was pretty tough and different from what we are used to. If we marinated it and put it on the grill it was fine. It was interesting to receive a different type of meat than we are used to every month and satisfying that we were receiving a locally raised product.
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Jody Osmund says: (May 5, 2009)
Pasture raised chicken will be "tougher" than typical store purchased birds as they graze and exercise unlike factory raised birds. At the farm, we refer to this toughness as muscle tone.
Marinating is always a good practice. Soaking chicken pieces in buttermilk w/spices overnight before making fried chicken or marinating in seasoned plain yogurt before grilling are couple of my favorite preparations for our chicken .
Happy eating!
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Meat and eggs remind me of grandparents' farm
By: Jessica I (Jan 24, 2009)
Growing up, all of our meat and eggs came from my grandparents' small farm. At the time it wasn't the trendy thing to do, but provided quality low priced meat for a family on a very tight budget.
I was thrilled to find Cedar Valley-we've had two months of their meat CSA and I couldn't be happier. Our first meal from the CSA meat-bacon and eggs. My foodie husband said their eggs are the best he has ever had-I'll go ahead and say they're as good as my grandmother's :) The meat is wonderful, fabulous, tastes like real beef and pork. The flavor is wonderful, it's a really good deal if you shop for meat at places like Paulina and Whole Foods (and the qualilty is MUCH better), it's healthy and supports local small farmers like my grandparents.
OH, and Beth and Jody are wonderful people. This month, I realized we needed to change our pick up day-they were very understanding and accommodating.
We'll be with this CSA for a long time!
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You got to give these guys a try!
By: Shawn Sherman (Jan 7, 2009)
We recently started purchasing shares from Cedar Valley because of their farming techniques. I expected the taste of their products to be similar to the high quality meats and eggs you'd find at Whole Foods. I was wrong in the best possible way. The eggs are truly the best I've ever tasted - by a long shot! The stuff you find at grocery stores (I'm talking the $5 a dozen - free range variety) can't hold a candle to Cedar Valley's bright orange yolked, full of flavor beauties. Just unbelievable! The meats, especially the bacon, are superior as well. Plus, their prices are so reasonable considering the quality and the taste - it's such a no-brainer to do business with this family. For the price, why not try a 3 month share?
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Tasty Meat, Wonderful People, What More Could I Ask For?
By: Karen Reyes (Dec 22, 2008)
Not only does Cedar Valley consistently supply the tastiest meat we've ever tasted (down to the simplest ground beef), but they provide wonderful and cheery service again and again. Proof once again that establishing solid connections with real people who care about us and our food is always better than getting nutrients from faceless, anonymous agribusinesses that remain unreachable and unaccountable. Oh but back to the meat, simply delicious. And we're provided nice recipes and suggestions for cooking/serving and interesting information about where it came from, challenges and triumphs. Just a great deal and I can't recommend Cedar Valley highly enough!
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