Karina Jones is a real-life ranch wife in the Nebraska Sandhills and one of the most highly sought-after speakers in the cattle industry nationwide!
It is shredded beef meal idea day here on Ranch Raised! As I said yesterday, I consider shredded roast beef a blank canvas and I am the Picasso.
If you have a roaster, you can actually make a couple of beef roasts and then you have all that shredded meat and broth to make up multiple meals.
My first inspiration always tips its hand to what to do with the roast beef and I focus on all that good broth as a secondary meal option. If you are only using a 3-4 lb roast you can usually stretch that to get 2-3 meals for your family. The first meal I usually make is shredded BBQ beef sandwiches on buns.
Do not ever throw out all that good broth! That is a meal, my friend! As long as you have at least a cup of left-over roast beef and all that broth then you have the perfect starting point for either a beef and veggie soup, beef and barley soup, or my family’s favorite, beef and noodles! I also can use this broth to make gravy for hot beef sandwiches.
I also prefer to use shredded beef over ground beef for my enchiladas, just add some taco seasoning to the shredded beef and stuff your enchiladas. My husband and I love beef salad sandwiches for a quick lunch when the kids are at school! Another meal option I do when there is less than a cup of roast beef is BBQ Beef pizza! So easy and crowd favorite!
Leave me a message on the Ranch Raised Facebook page telling me your favorite way to use shredded roast beef to feed your family. Bonus points if you leave me a recipe to try!
Karina ranches with her husband, Marty, and 4 children near Broken Bow, NE. She grew up in western NE, with roots also in southwest SD. The cattle industry and raising kids is her passion.
Watching the cattle industry go the path that it has gone, she could no longer sit quietly at home checking cows, fixing fence, and doing all the everyday tasks wondering when some else was going to make it all better. As she became more active and outspoken on industry issues, she was asked to join the R-CALF USA staff in September 2020 as the Checkoff Petition Campaign manager. That position transcended into her current role as full time Field Director for R-CALF USA.
You can hear her almost every Friday on Your Ag Network’s Hot Barn Report, where she deep dives into cattle industry issues and industry reforms. Listen to Ranch Raised on a Your Ag Network hometown station or www.youragnetwork.com where she talks about her daily life on the Jones Ranch.
Cattle producers are her people. She will meet you at the county fair, at the sale barn, or anywhere the dusty trail leads.
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