The Bison Girl :: a lifestyle of good cooking, good eating & living well

To tell you the truth, this isn't a meal I make a lot. But I don't know why. It's insanely easy and it tastes delicious. Serve it up with some mashed potatoes and bread, and you've got a pretty fantastic meal. But usually, I just forget about it. However, I was walking by the meat case at the grocery store this week and saw the chicken drumsticks and thought, yup. I'm going to make those tonight. But an even better thing about this meal is that it's cheap! Drumsticks are usually much cheaper than buying chicken breast, so I like to splurge and buy Smart Chicken when I can. This package of drumsticks was only $5.22 -- and it's enough for 3 servings!

Recently I had the opportunity to make some delicious Bison Steak Fajitas for my parents and little sister. This dish is fairly easy to make and so... so... good! You really can't go wrong when you're having a meal using bison steak, let's be honest.  Even though this is a fairly simple dish, it's not one I've made more than a couple times, combine that with the fact that I was filming myself for a video for NebraskaBison.com and the fact that I'd gotten a bit of a later start than I was hoping for (meaning we were all hungry!) I was quite flustered during the making of these fajitas. Although they still turned out delicious, the downside is I didn't get quite as many photos of the process as I would have usually liked - and I haven't yet gone through and edited the video, so God only knows how that turned out! :) But I wanted to share this recipe with all of you. It's a great way for preparing steak when you don't want to stick with t...

I've never made real, honest-to-goodness macaroni and cheese that didn't come out of a blue box before. But I've been thinking about doing so a lot lately. And today was just one of those days where it really hits you that it's fall. I was legitimately cold all day yesterday, and today I even contemplated turning on the heat as my thermostat continued to read lower and lower temps! (Side note: Can you believe that?! It's early September!) So, I kept thinking about a nice warm bowl of REAL mac and cheese. And then, wouldn't you know it, I open up Pinterest on my phone, and the pin at the very top of my feed is for a delicious looking bowl of, you guessed it, Macaroni and cheese. That pretty much settled it. I used this "Copycat Panera Mac & Cheese" recipe from my Pinterest feed as inspiration and modified it from there to suit what I was wanting, specifically a baked macaroni and cheese with bread crumbs on top. This is the delicious bowl of ...

I LOVE bison burgers. I suppose that's probably a given, since you're on a website called "The Bison Girl." I also love sharing bison burgers with friends and family and introducing them to how awesome bison burgers can taste. My cousin recently moved to Lincoln and she still hadn't had a bison burger yet, so after she got settled in, I invited her over for one. Over the few years I've been associated with my company, I have come to cook many bison burgers, and, I think, I've gotten pretty good at it. As burgers have always been one of my favorite foods, and I realized some time ago that I always enjoyed them even more in steak houses or burger restaurants, I taught myself some time ago how to cook a restaurant quality burger. When it comes to bison burgers, my theory is that you're paying extra for this better quality meat, you should make a better quality burger. Don't skimp on any of the ingredients. You might think I have a lot of st...

Seriously. Because this is my mom's recipe. See what I did there? Except actually, I wouldn't know because I don't think I've ever actually had my mom's biscuits and gravy. She always made other breakfast when she made biscuits and gravy, because while Dad loved them, the rest of us were too stubborn to try. Which is too darn bad. Because these are phenomenal. The truth is, I didn't know I liked biscuits and gravy until I had my first apartment in college. I decided to give mom's recipe a try - and once I actually looked at the ingredients, I realized it probably wasn't as scary as it looked. I've never looked back from there. I love making biscuits and gravy now, although I don't make them very often. That requires getting up to work right after waking up in the morning on a weekend. No thank you! But there are those times when nothing can hold me back from the thought of nice warm biscuits smothered in this thick, creamy gravy... and on those...