Tasiwoo Ho!

 I've always wanted to try buffalo. Being part Native, I spent a good portion of my youth reading about my ancestors and wishing that I too could live in a teepee, following the buffalo herds. As I've gotten older, the teepee part has diminshed, but wanting to try buffalo hasn't. After eyeing the package of ground buffalo in the sote for several years, I finally decided to take the plunge and buy it.

 The meat is a bit darker red than the standard ground moo, and there is a very low fat percentage. I shaped up some patties and cooked them in a skillet, since I had been craving a juicy, greasy flat griddle burger for a couple of weeks.

 After cooking, I put the medium rare burgers on some artisan buns with some lovely uncured bacon, queso blanco cheese, blue cheese, red onion, Buttercrunch lettuce and mayo.

 The taste of the burger was everything I had hoped for; juicy, not at all greasy with a full rich beef flavor, more like a good Porterhouse steak than hamburger. We both loved it, and while it's a little pricey to be feeding the kiddies or eating daily ($6.99/lb), it will be replacing steak as a fancy date night dinner. Altho, they DO have a buffalo steak now at HEB.............