Cooking in the West

Fall is that time of year when neighbors help neighbors with gathering, shipping, weaning, and preg testing. It is a concept right out of a Hallmark card... as long as it is a nice, balmy autumn day. However, when the weatherman plays a cruel joke and the thermometer dips below zero and everything is frozen solid on the morning of the gathering, it is either true friends or non creative friends who couldn't craft an excuse to show up to ride!

I am not sure which category we fell under several years back when we found ourselves headed up the creek to the EOB Ranch to gather on a crisp 2.73 degr...