Cooking in the West

Spring is officially here, and that signals a shift in my world. I have to shift from physical fitness activities like power walking to the break room for a snack and lifting paperclips to doing things like lugging newborn calves into a sled from the snowbank they were born in or crawling through brush behind cows or in some cases in front of cows--depending upon their prenatal or postpartum moods.

Calving season can be a painful transition into fitness that requires a lot of sweat and, therefore, deodorant. The worst part about all that sweating is that there is no reward like a regular paych...