BriarPatch and Cal Organics also for meat eaters

We’re big fans of fresh local food. We eat lots of fruit and veggies, but we also eat beef.

We like to go to the BriarPatch for “green” food but also for meat and poultry. The same goes for California Organics, which touts the nation’s only 100 percent organic meat counter, where we go to the Grill and do some shopping.

This weekend my son and I went to BriarPatch and grabbed some Nevada County Free Range Beef and Smart Chicken — to kick off the barbeque season. The beef is local grass fed beef from Jim Gates’ ranch (on sale for $1 off per pound), and the Smart Chicken is organic, “air-chilled” chicken. Air chilled is the norm in Europe.

We ate the beef last night (with a Bobby Flay recipe) and are eating the chicken tonight. The butcher is awesome: He happily hand cut the beef tenderloins while we waited, and he butterflied the whole chicken for the barbeque. (It’s the best method).

For appetizers, we bought some shrimp from Nevada City Seafood. We topped off dinner with a bottle of Sierra Starr wine and a fresh garden salad with Flay’s ginger-lime dressing (including carrots from Four Frog Farm).

I always feel a little guilty buying meat and poultry at our local organic markets, but I must not be alone. Besides I pick up the flax seed, too.

There’s plenty of leftovers during the week when we don’t spend nearly as much time in the kitchen.

Sometimes it costs a little more for organic beef and poultry, but it’s OK if you remember to “eat less, pay more” as fresh food writer author Michael Pollan reminds us.

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