MONGOLIAN BEEF SLOPPY JOES

• 1 pound Ground Beef
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 1 to 2 serrano chiles, seeded, chopped
• 3 tablespoons hoisin sauce
• 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 4 hamburger buns

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Heat large nonstick skillet over medium heat until hot. Add Ground Beef, onion and chiles; cook 8 to 10 minutes, breaking beef up into 3/4-inch crumbles. Pour off drippings, as necessary.
2. Stir in hoisin sauce, oyster sauce, soy sauce and honey; bring to boil. Reduce heat; simmer 5 minutes, stirring often.
3. Divide beef mixture evenly on bottom half of each bun; close sandwiches. Enjoy!

A very happy Valentine's Day to you and your family. Celebrate with some grass fed and finished steaks on the grill with a glass of your favorite red wine.

We continue to work towards our objective to get the ranch back to operational status.   The contractors finished up a couple weeks ago and now Jim has been working hard welding the corral back together.  Next week the fencing project should be started.  Once this work is done, we will be able to reopen to visitors.  We estimate that whole process will take a couple more months. 

February 26 will bring a group of visitors to the ranch from the University of Arizona and 4H.  We offered the use of our ranch for research purposes.  Currently there is no published research from Arizona fires on the best way to revegetate the land.  The 4H youth will aid the researchers as they set up their test plots on the ranch.  While this research won't directly help our ranch, the ranchers who utilize state and federal land will benefit from the science to support the idea of getting cattle on the burned areas sooner to break up the hard crust.   Currently state and federal forest policy is based on politics and public opinion instead of Arizona based research.  As the experiment progresses, we expect we will be hosting future study visits as well. 

We have had a great start to calving season.  Meet Edelweiss - the white heifer and Freesia - the dun heifer.  We have been waiting a long time for a white heifer.  White highlands are very rare and we have only one other.  Evan, our new bull is dun and when bred to a white cow then white offspring are possible.  We were very lucky to get Edelweiss.  

Beef update

We are currently scheduling December 2022 and taking reservations for 2023.  We are very pleased that we have been able to secure some purebred pasture raised Angus from a single rancher in Klondyke.  We will be heading out there next week to pick up the boys and bring them into the finishing pen.  Purebred Angus are quite rare in this area of Arizona and this breeder does a wonderful job with them. He is in his 70's and we really like how he treats his animals and the quality of the beef. 

Please let us know your needs.  We understand that things may change but if you think you want beef in 2023 - this is the time to make your reservation.  We only have a half Angus that is not spoken for this year.  We thank everyone for your continued support.   We have a wait list for 2022.  

If you need something before November, we have worked with another rancher who raises Brangus, uses our butcher, and may still have availability.   We have purchased animals from this ranch and have been very happy with their quality.  They are also grass fed and grass finished.  We are very excited that this rancher is also be building a fold of Highland cattle as well.  

We would like to wish each and every one of you a very happy Valentine's Day.  Please stay safe and well and have a wonderful year.