Rib Eye Steak

Oh lucky me !!!

The grocery store had Rib Eye steak on sale for $5.99 lb (that’s my price point) and the wife brought home a couple of nice ones.

“Steaks For Grilling”

Well DUH !!!!

And despite my best judgement, there will a non potato vegetable with dinner.

Pre cut in a bag.  Really simple.

Onto the fire………….

Mmmmm, Meat !!!

Perfectly  cooked to rare/medium rare !!!

The veggies turned out OK.

OK, for you real carnivores out there, you know what this is……………

MEAT CANDY !!!!

Best meat on the cow !!

I used to talk to a coworker about food quite a bit and he always bought his meat without bones.  He thought is was a waste of money to pay for the bone-in steak or pork chops.  I told he that he needed to try it at least once.

Well, he came to work a few days later and had cooked a couple of bone in pork chops and he was raving for days about how much better the chops tasted with the bone in.  Another convert !!!

Well, instead of gnawing on these, I thought that I would make some “Beef Barley Mushroom Soup.”

Boil them up for a beat.

Barley.

Barley is a close second to my split pea for soup making.

Yep. those are the mushrooms.

Toss in a few carrots and pick the meat off the bone.

Viola !!

A few days of lunches for work.

Steak And Potatoes

Ahhhhh, yet another of my many simple pleasures of life !!

MEAT !!!!

Now, I really have in the past several years eaten a lot less steak then I used to.  It has just become far to expensive to have as often as I would like to have it.

But in this case, due to some good shopping skills and good luck, I was able to get this steak for only $4.00 instead of the packaged price of $8.00.

And as luck would have it, I found myself alone for dinner, and decided it was “Steak & Potato” time.

A nice bone in Rib Eye, nice and marbled.  Hard to believe that this steak goes for over $10 lb !!!

Real simple prep.

Black pepper and some garlic salt

Too lazy to go outside and fire the grill up, I think it would require cleaning the garage to find the grill anyway.

So, the kitchen mainstay of the cast iron skillet will do very fine indeed.

Ooooooohhhhh, a very nice sear and delightful crust !!!

Oh yeah, I said something about potatoes being involved.

Now at one time, those things may have been connected to a potato, but they get shredded, processed, pressed into a shape and “VIOLA”, Tater Tot.  I suppose that there is enough potato DNA there to legally call them potatoes for this post.

Also made a little compound butter with fresh garlic.

There were no survivors.