Cooking in the West

Fall is an anxious time of year on ranches, because pre-conditioning, weaning, and shipping are the dreaded days of the year when ranchwives are called upon to sort a lot of cattle with their husbands. It is my hypothesis that there are many ranchers who go to bed at night this time of year without the benefit of having ingested a nice warm dinner. More likely they cooked themselves a frozen pizza or just had cereal.

If you have not sorted a lot of cattle with your spouse, let me explain the dynamics of it. I know that when our founding fathers decreed that we all have the liberty to the pursu...