Woe is me
Posted by TFG on April 15th, 2008
Tonight, I’m eating the last of the discount $6/lb. porterhouse steaks from Sam’s. These were found on a Sunday morning with the “Reduced for Quick Sale” sticker on them. When I saw them, I felt like one of those women in a cartoon at a Macy’s shoe sale. I almost knocked down another old codger trying to get every single one of the leftover trays.
When I finally got my 9 steaks home (3 per tray, 3 trays at reduced price, only 1 tray got away from me), I lovingly placed them in Freezer Storage Ziplocs and salted them away for nights like tonight. Crikey, there’s just nothing better…even after three months of cold storage, these babies are stunningly delicious.
Bloody steak is a cure for what ails ye.
In a related foodie moment, I had an argument with a young man last night about the necessity for overpriced steakhouses. Yes, we can all cook as good as Ruth’s Chris, but sometimes you just want to sit there and let someone else do the cooking and the cleaning. I’m not talking weekly, or even monthly, but there are times when a steakhouse is the way to go, like your best pard’s 50th, or your daughter’s graduation. For me, it’s worth saving the pennies, just so I don’t have to watch the pennies, and so I can go enjoy a cigar after 16 oz of prime beef without having the goddamned Spurs blaring over me at 100 decibels.
That’s a problem around here. All they have is the Spurs, so they’ve never learned the necessity to living life at the slower pace of baseball. Baseball can teach us all a lot, I says.
April 15th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
nice presentation
April 15th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
just got back from Louie Macks,had a great med rare ribeye,couple of Titos & a real good calif. cab. didnt have a ceegar,but a good chew of Redman made a great finish to a otherwise ordinary day.by the way,. real good price on those porterhouses.
April 15th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Presentation…I should post a picture of what mine looked like…blue enameled plate and a pool of blood. The blue enamel kinda hides all the blood, but when the fat congeals it stands out a little. So I eat fast…
I’ve been back every Sunday since, hoping against hope, and alas, no luck. But I’ll be there Sunday again, just in case. They always have thin sirloins for under $3/lb, which, that’ll do in a pinch, considering what HEB charges for their hamburger.
April 16th, 2008 at 6:35 am
All they have is the Spurs, so they’ve never learned the necessity to living life at the slower pace of baseball. Baseball can teach us all a lot, I says.
Amen. When a person says they’re a baseball fan, it says a lot about them. My favorite two things about baseball is that there’s no clock and there are no ties.
April 16th, 2008 at 9:06 am
I can’t get *real* fired up about any sports, really, but having grown up in a family of hard-core (STL Cards, the usual team of us hicks from the SEMO sticks)baseball fans, there’s something comforting and relaxed about watching the game live or on television, or even stretched out on the porch after a kinda hard day listening to baseball on the radio. So another “amen” from me.
The R Man