Lau Family Farm Grass-fed meats available January 16, 23 and 30th
Lori Anne Lau
LAU FAMILY FARM, LLC
Grass-Fed and Finished * No Antibiotics * No Hormone Implants
January 16th: Salt Lake City @ Rio Grande Depot Winter Market - 10 am to 2 pm
January 23rd: Logan @ Crumb Brothers Bakery - 9 to 10:30 am
Pocatello @ 420 N Main - 1:30 to 2 pm
Idaho Falls @ Key Bank Parking lot along Broadway - 3:30 to 4:30pm
January 30th Salt Lake City @ Rio Grande Depot Winter Market - 10 am to 2 pm
Ogden @ 4 pm (more details to come)
· January Special: Our regular Ground Beef $5.70 per lb on orders of 20 lbs or more. Extra lean ground beef and ground beef patties excluded.
· Take an extra 5% off on pre-ordered beef and lamb bundles. Our bundles are always discounted 10% off of their full price, but this month you can save even more when get a bundles. Our smallest bundles are only 3-4 lbs, the largest, the Bit of Everything bundle is around 25 lbs of meat.
· Steak Bundle approx. $75 (10% off regular price) The bundle will include 3-4 lbs of a mixture of tenderloin steak, tenderloin tail roasts, T-bone, New York, and rib eye steaks. As with all our bundles, we will chose the combination of items that make up the bundle. This is a great value for these high quality grass-fed steaks.
· Revised Bit of Everything Bundle approx $210 (10% off regular price) As the name implies this bundle gives you a little bit of all the different types of cuts that come from a beef. This approximately 25 lb bundle will let you try cooking our delicious grass-fed beef a variety of ways. You can try everything from grilling, broiling, and oven roasting, to moist heat methods like braising and pot roasting. You can test some great marinades for fajitas and kabobs or make yummy steak slices to top your favorite salad or serve with mashed potatoes. The ground beef will keep your family supplied with any number of delicious and nutritious meals. Our ground beef makes awesome burgers, meatloaves, taco/burritos, lasagna, and any number of casseroles.
3-5 Grilling Steaks (New York Strip, T-bone, or Rib Eye) (approx 1.75 to 2.5 lbs)
1-3 Oven Roasts (Top Sirloin, Sirloin Tip, London Broil or Tri-Tip) approx 4 to 5 lbs
1-3 Slow Cooking Roast (Chuck Roast, Eye of Round, or Brisket) approx 4 to 5 lb
3-4 lb Marinating/Moderately Tender Steaks (Petite Sirloin, Top Sirloin, Flank, Skirt, Ranch, Chuck, or Cube Steaks)
1-3 lbs Convenience Cuts or Bone-in Cuts (Stew Cubes, Kabob Cubes, Boneless Short Ribs or Steak (stir fry) Strips, Meaty Soup Bones aka sliced shanks or Ribs)
10 pkgs Ground Beef (Ten approx 1 lb packages of our standard 90% lean burger, or patties) approx 9 to 11 lbs.
· Revised Slow Cooking Bundle approx. $117.50 (10% off regular price)
1-3 Slow Cooking Roasts (Chuck Roast, Eye of Round or Brisket) approx 4 to 5 lbs
3-4 lb Marinating/Moderately Tender Steaks (Petite Sirloin, Top Sirloin, Flank, Skirt, Ranch, Chuck, or Cube Steaks)
2 pkgs Convenience Cuts or Bone-in Cuts (Stew Cubes, Kabob Cubes, Boneless Short Ribs or Steak (stir-fry) Strips, Meaty Soup Bones, Ribs) approx 1.8 to 2.2 lbs
5 pkgs Ground Beef (Five approx 1 lb packages of our standard 90% lean burger) approx 5 lbs.
· Revised Grill Lovers Bundle approx $137.50 (10% off regular price) This approximately 14 lb bundle includes roasts that are great grilled, some of our best steaks, as well as some bulk ground beef or patties for awesome grilled burgers. We love to use our grill all year long, but these cuts are also great broiled or roasted in the oven.
3-5 Grilling Steaks (New York Strip, T-bone, or Rib Eye) (approx 1.75 to 2.5 lbs)
1-2.5 lbs Steaks (Flank, Skirt, Hanging Tender, Flat Iron or Top Sirloin steaks)
1-3 Oven Roasts (Top Siroloin, Sirloin Tip, London Broil, or Tri-Tip) approx 4 to 5 lbs
5 pkgs Ground Beef (Five approx 1 lb packages of our standard 90% lean burger or patties) approx 5 lbs
· Lamb Chop Bundle (10% off regular price)
The bundle will include 3-4 lbs of mixed chops, loin, rib or shoulder chops, and 2 mixed pkgs of ground lamb, kabob, shanks, stew or riblets.
· Lamb Roast Bundle (10% off regular price)
This bundle will include 4-6 lbs of roasts-leg or shoulder, and 2 mixed pkgs of ground lamb, stew, shanks, kabob cubes or riblets.
· Lamb Combination Bundle (10% off regular price)
This bundle will include (4-6 lbs lamb roasts, approx 2 lbs of mixed chops, and 2 mixed pkgs of ground lamb, stew, kabob, shanks, or riblets). These bundles may include a mix of paper wrapped and vacuum sealed meat. These bundles will be 10% off the regular price of the cuts included.
· We are able to take additional quarter and half beef orders, as well as whole and half lamb orders. We are looking at delivery dates in approx. April for these orders.
· We have a variety of scratch and dent (broken seal) meats, some older organs, and other items that we want to relocate from our freezer to yours. If you are interested in knowing about any of these discounted items let us know. I’ll probably put some of them on facebook instead of sending out lots of small emails with the details.
We hope you had a great holiday season and that 2016 is off to a good start for you and yours. We were blessed to be able to spend Christmas with family in Twin Falls. This is the first time our kids had spent Christmas away from home, and the first time our nephew, Lil Grant, had had Santa come to his home. I thought it worked out remarkably well. The kids and I went over on the afternoon of the 23rd, once highway 30 was finally reopened after being closed due to blowing snow and accidents. Our drive was easy and uneventful. John fed heavily on the 24th and came over that afternoon. His drive was more challenging and slow but he made it safely. It was extremely cold, so Sarah and Rich let us bring our 3 dogs instead of just bringing old Jade. The labs stayed in the yard and slept in the garage which was much warmer than it would have been in their kennel here in Soda. Maisy, Grant’s dog, seemed to enjoy having a reunion with her k-9 friends and even sacrificed her dog bed for old Jade to sleep on. We had some yummy food, and it was nice to have some down time and be away from home, and all that needs doing. John and Tom went home early on Sunday and all the animals were happy to see them and have their hay restocked. Becca and I followed on Monday after doing a bit of shopping (returning) on Sunday.
Sarah and Rich planned to join us in Soda for New Years but Becca brought home strep throat and it was so cold and windy that the sledding and playing in the snow that was Lil Grant’s first priority were unlikely to last long. Since Sarah and Rich stayed home it was very quiet around here but we are used to that. No one else got strep, but Tom and now I have gotten bad colds/flu.
The wind blew steadily, night and day, which is unusual, for 4 or 5 days and it has taken John 4 days to move all the snow that piled up in the yards and reestablish entry into the main hay yard. I suspect he’ll be taking the tractor and loader bucket into town to help a couple of businesses now that we can finally function properly again. John says the wind wasn’t so severe out at the Meadow farm, the drifts not so crazy there. Since he is snow-machining in to feed the cows out there, he at least doesn’t have to worry about trying to keep the road passable. He has a path from the hay stack out to where he is feeding the cows that stays passable with a bit of work. I don’t fully understand, but having a tractor that articulates (bends) in the middle to feed with makes it less likely that if he’ll get stuck if he comes off the snow road while feeding.
I treated myself to a long drive to Boise and a 5 hour training on stock water rights, grazing permits and other range related issues last week. We don’t have permits on federal or state land so it isn’t directly relevant but I find the topics still fascinate me nearly 20 years after my last graduate level class on the topic. Better yet, I was able to reconnect with one of my best friends with whom I’d begun to lose touch. We spent 9-10 hours gabbing, planning to save the world, commiserating, comparing notes on the kids etc. I managed to pull myself away in time to get back to Soda about dark, just 50 hours after leaving, but it felt like I’d had a week’s stimulation. I sure wish they lived close by, like in the good old days!
Yesterday I got to put a crown on our girl’s head. She is now Senior Princess for her bethel (Job’s Daughters). Assuming she gets the votes she should move up to Honored Queen this May! I’m hoping we can move the installation to early June so we won’t be in the midst of lambing and can stop and savor the moment. I’m not sure how much longer the Bethel will survive so I’m thinking we’d better enjoy this moment because there probably won’t be a second term for her. I’m somewhat relieved that she isn’t eligible for (Catholic) confirmation this spring, that will have to wait until she’s a freshman next year.
It looks like we are going into a period where there will be movement on settling and cleaning up the paperwork disaster that John’s dad left us. Cleaning out Grant’s home is also a chore for this winter that I am dreading. We need my stress management skills to be better going thru this season, and I plan to try to avoid shutting down again. As with everything in life we all have to actively chose to be okay while going thru this and with whatever results. “We will be okay” is my new mantra.
We are looking forward to 2016 and we appreciate your going with us on this journey. Finding a path for our small herd of cattle and sheep and the land we steward to support our family has not been easy. This path still has its inherent challenges, but knowing you are all going along for the ride with us helps so much.
Many thanks for your business,
John, Lori Anne, Tom and Becca
Lau Family Farm, LLC
Grass Fed Beef, Lamb & Wool...A Natural Choice
PO Box 337
Soda Springs, ID 83276
208-709-4981 (cell)
12 Tom and his dance partner, Amanda, after the social dance club performance in December.
2 2014 and 2015 wool crop headed to Tooele to be sold to the wool marketing association located there. Now John can have the wing of the shop back :)
3 Tom made us all Cuban sandwiches for his birthday dinner in late November. Thankfully there are so many of us around the table you can’t see all the rest of the clutter in the kitchen.