Rob Medberry has a cow-calf operation in northeastern Iowa’s Clayton County.
VOLGA, Iowa — With regards to getting ready a meal, Rob Medberry has a easy purpose in thoughts: Make it easy and make it properly.
“I simply need to fill somebody up,” he mentioned.
Medberry mentioned he solely just lately began cooking.
“Plenty of it’s because of the pandemic,” he mentioned. “We had been house and didn’t have a lot to do and had time. I’ve two daughters right here, so we had time and I believed I may educate them slightly bit.”
Medberry mentioned including cooking to his house life places the main focus again on household as properly. He has 4 kids who’re unfold out across the nation, and going to a restaurant doesn’t give the identical ambiance.
“You go to a restaurant and it’s not a lot of the expertise,” he mentioned. “It’s getting so costly and to get everyone there and ordered, you lose a whole lot of time with household. Right here, you possibly can sit round when you are ready for issues to prepare dinner.”
Medberry has a cow-calf operation with some goats and grows row crops, which retains him busy yr spherical. He’s concerned with the Iowa Cattleman’s Affiliation as properly, serving because the president-elect. He’s the fifth era at his house in Volga, in northeastern Iowa’s Clayton County.
He mentioned he prefers to prepare dinner his meat within the kitchen fairly than on the grill. He mentioned the flavour is comparable, and he would fairly be inside the place he can speak to the folks he’s cooking for as a substitute of getting to handle two locations without delay.
One among his go-to cuts of meat is steak or a roast, and throughout the pandemic he has finished rather a lot with pork loins.
