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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!
The kitchen is a classroom! Thanks for joining me today on Ranch Raised.
Being a student of life, I appreciate making everyday moments in to learning opportunities. Our kitchen has become an intense classroom the last couple of weeks and I am excited to share all about it. Another family in our homeschool FFA chapter recently introduced me to fruit of their labor. They are regenerative farmers in southwest Nebraska who mill their own grains and sell their products. I purchased their cornmeal, Turkey Red Whole Wheat Flour, Turkey Red White Flour, and some sorghum flour to play with.
The cornmeal makes incredible cornbread! My family wouldn’t complain if I was making cornbread once a day. We stared whipping our own honey butter, with local honey, and it has become a delicacy of sorts! I haven’t played with the sorghum flour, so if you have ideas, please share them with me.
Now on to the wheat flours. I sheepishly admit, I have never baked much with whole wheat flour, so jumping in with a fresh milled product like this has been an experience. Dough definitely takes longer to rise. I am usually only using half whole wheat, half white flour in the recipes as I let my family’s taste acclimate. My husband is all aboard “Team Whole Wheat” and says it is the best bread I’ve ever made. This morning we enjoyed whole wheat cinnamon rolls for breakfast, compliments of one of my girls.
As you can imagine, I am so excited to support a local farmer who grows and mills their crop and I have no plans of stopping! Do you have a local source of flour in your area?
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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 former role as full time Field Director for R-CALF USA.
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.
karina@youragnetwork.com or visit facebook.com/ranchraisedwithkarinajones
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