Grass Fed Beef And Blue Cheese Burgers
By: Sheri Wetherell
Published: July 11, 2009

After reading Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, Barnaby vowed to only buy grass fed beef. Some of you may ask why not give up beef all together? Well, you can blame me. I love meat and have given up being ashamed to admit it. We don't eat a lot of beef, but darn it, I love it! So, politics of vegetarians versus carnivores aside, I'd like to share with my fellow meat-eaters our beautiful, super-duper-delicious-grass-fed-beef burgers. Grass fed beef reminds me of the uber-high quality meats we enjoyed in Argentina. Not only is it a better way of living for the animal, but the meat tastes so much more flavorful and clean. In fact, if you did a side-by-side comparison of grass fed to non-grass fed beef I'd bet money that you'd make a switch too (even if you didn't care about the animal's life). We seasoned these little burgers with just a little salt and pepper, grilled them to a nice medium wellness, and tossed on a bit of blue cheese at the end. Perfect with some grilled red onion. They taste so darn good!

Comments:
outdoorgriller
July 11, 2009

Those burgers sound good. I enjoy grilling season every year and burgers are one of my favorite foods to cook. If you would like to see the collection of tips and recipes I have for grilling you can visit www.cookingandgrillinoutdoors.com
Desmone007

They sure sound good! I'm a meat lover too...I can't go through the day without eating something that once had a bone in it! :)
Carrie Oliver

I love blue cheese and burgers!
After conducting too many artisan beef tastings to count, I would have to agree that many people will switch to 100% grass fed beef in a blind taste test.  It does depend on the relative talents of the producer, slaughterhouse, and butcher (plus things like breed and specific diet) but when done right, grass-fed beef has exactly what you say, some sort of clean, almost ocean fresh taste to it.  Most 100% grass-fed (grass only) beef is dry-aged, too, which enhances flavor and tenderizes the beef. 
Also, while sometimes people do not choose the grass-fed as their first choice in a side-by-side tasting, I've seen a lot of people change their mind and choose grass-fed once they know the source and story.  They'll say, well it wasn't my absolute first choice but I liked the beef from all of the farm so, all else being equal, I'm choosing this one.
MyLastBite

LOOKS INCREDIBLE.
Stacey (Dill My...

These look a-m-a-z-i-n-g!  It makes me want a big juicy burger right now!
Grass Fed Beef

I appreciate you aren't afraid to admit you love meat, the only thing I would add to your article on your blue-cheese burgers, is that grass fed meat is actually good for you.  Prior to World War II nobody fed cattle grains as a market practice, after the war and a glut of grain on the market they decided to feed it to cattle.  Subsequently, beef got a bad rap as being unhealthy especially in light of the explosion in heart disease.  This has nothing to do with beef, in and of itself, but rather the unnatural diet of ruminents eating grains, hormones and antibiotics added, as well.  The nutrition profile of the two, grain fed vs grass fed, shows that they are really different meats entirely.  Since its not loaded with fat, it also needs to be cooked slower at a lower temperature.
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