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!
I am ready to share another recipe and this one doesn’t even include the Holy Trinity of butter, sugar, and eggs. Yes, believe it or not, I do crank food out of my kitchen that isn’t baked or sweet. I knew you were beginning to wonder.
When I moved to these parts of central Nebraska after college to be with my now husband. This salad was frequently at potlucks and always brought by my friend, Kim, a neighborhood farm wife who knew how to feed her crew!
This was THE salad that was always scooped clean by the end of the night! Kim taught me how to make her taco salad and honestly it was probably the first recipe I adopted outside of what I knew from my family growing up.
It is a branding season tradition for this taco salad to be on my spread. And whether the crew is eating at my dining table or I have to pack lunch out to a pasture, this taco salad is always on the menu and has come to be expected by my crew when they come to the Jones Ranch!
Everyone is always looking for new fresh ideas of what to serve their crew and this salad breaks the mold of a traditional pasta or potato salad. You can do a bunch of the prep days before and throw it together right before serving. It is hearty and makes a lot, so it checks all the boxes for me.
Tune in tomorrow for my Jones Ranch Taco Salad recipe. As always, it will be posted on the Ranch Raised FB page and the Your Ag Network App and Website!
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Karina ranches with her husband, Marty, and 3 daughters 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 that is broadcast on 60 radio stations with coverage in 9 states, where she deep dives into cattle industry issues and highlights R-CALF’s work on 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 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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