Recipe

If you’re dining in tonight, this bacon-wrapped steak with blue cheese should probably be at the top of your list. Now your head is probably in one of two places: making a mental note of the ingredients to pick up – which you can find below – or you’re still thinking about bacon (which is fair). But it’s probably safe to say you’re not thinking about where this whole food story started: on a farm. 

Take the beef filet in the video. That cut of steak came from a beef cow that could have been raised by Illinois farmers like Mike and Lynn Martz just west of Chicago who use a “closed-loop farming system” between their crops and cattle to be more sustainable. 

Or that blue cheese topping. Way before cultures and curds come into the picture, a cow is milked – on a farm like Mackinson Dairy Farm – where each and every family member plays a part in keeping their dairy cows happy and healthy. 

And how about the bacon? It came from a pig raised in a barn by someone like Illinois pig farmer Thomas Titus, who makes it a family affair to raise safe and nutritious pork for your table. 

The butter. The yogurt. The onion. All these ingredients have one thing in common: they were raised and grown by a farmer. Maybe even right outside of Chicago. 

Whatever culinary adventure you take on next, know there’s a story behind those ingredients. Want to know more? Let’s talk.