Holiday Recipes Our Thanksgiving recipes were such a hit, that we have been asked to provide Holiday recipes too! Soooo, without further ado…here are our favorite holiday recipes. Roast Beef from Canal House Cooking Volume 2 (1) 8-12 lb. rib roast, tied between the ribs  Salt and Pepper Preheat oven to 200 degrees.  Generously season […]

It’s that time of year when the world shares magical moments and bestows gifts to friends and family.  Why not give gifts that will actually get used this year?  We have some great offerings! Our first idea is to gift 8 bags of amazing Rancho Gordo Products each day of Hannukah…Snowcap Beans, Chile de Arbol, […]

Update – 2017***Both of these recipes will work well with Heritage Turkeys.   Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday!  I love that it is centered around giving thanks for all that we have and the Three “F’s”- Friends, Family and Food. Below you will find two great recipes for turkey; the first is for a Broad Breasted […]

[slideshow] Finally!  It has arrived! We ordered a customized meat hook and rail system way back in February…We had assumed it would go in before we opened in August but you know the old adage about ASS-U (&) -ME-ing…. So the rail was delivered last week in two truck loads to our parking lot.  Once it was delivered, […]

We did a butchery class at Kitchen on Fire last Sunday and we focused on Poultry.  It was a great class!  All of the students got to work on their own chickens and then take them home.  Bill and Aaron reminded me of the two old guys in the balcony on The Muppet Show as […]

Today’s Blog Post is about Mac Magruder and his ranch, Magruder Ranch.  Mac and his family have been providing us with beef and pork from his AMAZING property in Potter Valley.  We extended our definition of “Local” to mean within 150 miles of Berkeley so that we could include his products.  Below the interview, I […]

Mark Pasternack at Devil’s Gulch Ranch has been supplying us with pigs and rabbits for over two years now.  He was very supportive of our Meat Box program that we ran before actually opening our doors here in Berkeley.  He and his wife Myriam run the farm in Nacasio (Marin County).    They have a wonderful […]

Today’s blog post features Just Cook Foods Founders Scott Lucas and Daniel Capra.  Their spice rubs are magical.  They really are.  We rub them on our chicken, pork and beef and violá, our meat sings.  Some of the butchers/chefs around here are typically against pre-made spice rubs.  They asked, “Why wouldn’t I just make my […]

Here at The Local Butcher Shop, we use Harissa in many of our sausages and marinades.  It is most often found in our Chorizo Sausages, our Merguez Sausages and many of our marinades.  So, what is Harissa anyway?  According to See Smell Taste (our spice provider), the word Harissa comes from an Arabic word for “break into pieces”.  It is a North […]

Aaron Rocchino Aaron’s culinary career began at age twelve when he realized that if he wanted a car when he turned sixteen, he had to start making some money.  So, he got a job as a dishwasher at his grandparents’ favorite eating establishment.  He moved his way up to a busser position and then into the kitchen as a prep […]