Bring More with Beef in 2025
Start the year with 10 essential nutrients from lean beef. Learn why beef's a smart choice.
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Well-Balanced Meals
Recipes that tastefully combine a variety of food groups to achieve the perfect balance of taste, nutrition and simplicity with your favorite beef cuts. Click for a sample!
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Protein for Strength
It's not only important to just get protein in at dinner or lunch, but to spread it throughout your day. These recipes make it easy! Click for a sample.
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Getting to the Meat of the Mediterranean Diet
Recent research shows that a Mediterranean-style eating patter that includes fresh lean red meat can support heart health.
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Simple Steak Swaps
Whether you're looking for a new beef cut to try on the grill, or the beef cut on your grocery list isn't in the meat case at the moment, consider these Steak Swaps!
Back-to-basics
Beef Cuts
Where do all those different beef cuts come from? How do you cook it? This chart from Confident Cooking with Beef shows the primal cut across the top of the page, where the primal is located, and the different cuts from that primal. We've also noted the best cooking methods for each cut. Download the PDF...we'll be referring to it throughout the month. And don't forget to follow us on Instagram and Facebook for tips and recipes in this series!
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Back-to-Basics Recipes
Three recipes, three different beef cuts. What do they have in common? Each of these recipes is from the BeefItsWhatsForDinner.com "30 Minutes or Less" recipe collection.
Mongolian Beef
It takes just 20 minutes to prepare this flavorful and satisfying Top Sirloin Steak stir-fry.
Korean Beef & Vegetable Bowls
Use rice, Flank Steak, stir-fry vegetable mix and Korean barbecue sauce for a quick and easy meal.
Santa Fe Beef & Corn Chili
This easy to make chili packs big flavor from sweet corn and green chilies. Finish it off with a spoonful of sour cream spiked with pepper sauce.
Ranch to Table with a Twist
Recently, the California Beef Council hosted eleven food, culinary, and lifestyle social media influencers to get a first-hand look at beef from the ranch level to the table at our Ranch & Restaurant Pop-Up event in San Diego.
Meet a California Rancher!
Celeste Settrini and her family run the Settrini Ranch, a cow-calf ranch that has been in her family for more than 100 years. You may see Celeste on TV this summer as we showcase just one of the many cattle ranchers who produce beef in California. Click here to learn more about modern ranching, animal care, and sustainability.
Animal Care
California rancher Celeste Settrini shares how animal care is her top priority.
Sustainable Practices
California rancher Celeste Settrini talks about the people behind your beef.
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California Local Beef Directory
If you're a California shopper interested in purchasing beef directly from California's ranchers, our California Local Beef Directory can help you connect to California ranchers and beef producers who sell direct to consumers.
