We’d love to use this opportunity to share our latest blog posts, recipes from PJ Vadas, yummy product news, our Farmer Angus family and friends, and a little inspiration from me.
Latest blog posts
I was invited by Cape Talk’s Pippa Hudson to go into the studio this past week. It was such a privilege to be able to chat to her and to those listening about what we do on the farm. If you didn’t catch it live, don’t worry here is the link.
Farm to plate
Our beef burgers are grass finished, which means its free of Glyphosate. They are made on the farm with beef raised on the farm. We use only the forequarter to make the burger patties and we add 5 grams of unwashed (high mineral content) sea salt to each 1kg of beef. Our standard burgers are 100 and 200 grams but we have been known to make 600-gram patties. Our beef is dry aged for 7 days at 0.3 Celsius before we start processing it.
Cooking with PJ Vadas
Bone broth is better than botox, it’s better than medicine, hell, its the miracle cure we all need to be strong, healthy individuals. Ramen is all about using your imagination. It usually consists of a soup/broth base, some vegetables, some pasta, some meat and eggs. Use the most nutritious broth and the world’s your oyster.
Farmer Angus family and friends
My brother, Dr Cameron McIntosh (pictured left) was admitted to the PE Netcare Hospital with a CRP count of 439 (most folk reading this will have a CRP of less than 12) and then spent 2 weeks in ICU battling bacteremia, septicemia, and SIRS. After drinking half a litre of our bone broth every day for the month after his discharge this is what he had to say: Farmer Angus bone broth helped me with tendon repair following high rupture rates with one of the antibiotics I received, and it helped me regain lean body mass (this all in just 2 weeks after ICU).
What inspires me
It has to be Jan Smuts. The first time I heard about him, was from my father. As kids, he’d drag us up Skeleton Gorge on Table Mountain and to stop us from complaining he’d tell us how he, even into his late seventies, would do this hike regularly. And then for a man who only went to school at age 12, Smuts still holds the best marks at Cambridge for Law. What’s the best for me is that today my best pasture grass is Smutsfinger grass – named after this true polymath.