I Ate The Meat. May 3, 2008
Posted by littlebangtheory in Dinner with TCR.Tags: asparagus, flatiron steak, garlic aioli
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Well, that ought to generate a few hits.
But really, though I usually home in on chicken, fish and veggies, I occasionally crave meat.
The bloody kind.
One evening last week I asked my local butcher to put aside a flatiron stake for me. He gets a chunk of a cow pretty regularly, but the two flatirons he cuts out of it are always scarfed up pretty quickly, and by the time I get home from work they’re hardly ever still there. So I asked him to put one aside for me, and promised to pop by for it after work.
I drove at dangerous speeds to get home before the store closed and my claim to the fabled Flatiron lapsed, and got there just in time. The eleven dollar price tag surprised me, but as a rare treat, I hoped it would be worth it.
I got home, unwrapped my booty and found not one but two flatiron stakes in the package, which made me breathe easier about the price!
I marinated them both in olive oil, balsamic vinegar and lots of garlic for a couple of hours while I stalked the back roads for things to photograph, then came back and threw one on the grill, slathered with a garlic aioli which I’d prepared for the asparagus which would be my side. Occasional drizzles of olive oil kept the smoky flames leaping, resulting in that exqiusite flavor which just doesn’t ever come off the kitchen stove.
The result:
…Delicious!
But being a little piggy, I ate the next one the next day, and felt like I’d swallowed a cinder block. As a rare treat I’ll do that again , but with one steak, thank you.
I’ve been known to eat the meat a bit too.
Oh you naughty boy!!!
Honestly, like you I am not always about the beef. But there are times and when that time comes, one must act.
And you have…. rather amazingly so. It looks fabulous to me as I eat my gianormous salad of romaine, radishes, tomatoes, peppers, broccoli, a few nuts, a few golden raisins and a smidge of crumbled blue cheese tossed in balsamic and extra virgin.
After that meat thing, I had to throw in the extra virgin!!
HAHAHAHAHAAA, good call!
Yeah, it’ll be salads for moi aussi for a couple of days. Gotta send a few carrots through the old carotids before I succumb to another attack of meatophilia!
It’s funny, I absolutely love red meat, but since chicken stretches the food dollar further, we don’t have it all that often. But when we do, it is indeed delicious, but like you, I feel heavy afterwards.
We eat cow quite often. My Grandad was a cattleman and so is my uncle, so I’ve never been squicked out by the whole process. I’ve got a nice big deep freezer just waiting for the calf I’m gonna buy this year. Yum.
BP, raising it yourself sounds like the best way to come by ANY food, and I can’t imagine why beef would be an exception.
We’re just getting to the time of year when the seasonal edibles are coming in, so you’ll hear me crowing about my latest Free Mealz™ roadside score as the days roll on. I call it my “hundred yard diet,” though I’m not a purist about it. I just harvest what I find as I drive home from work.
Wish me luck with the morels, last year sucked!
And Randall, naturally raised chicken ain’t cheap either!
oh that just looks terrific. i don’t eat much beef tho i love it. my digestive system is really slow and screwed so meat is usually chicken or lean pork and not much . but every now and again, like once a month or every 6 weeks or so i just have to have red meat!
CR – Thanks for idea on the steaks. No need to be guilty over downing them both. I’ll bet they were tasty.
True Dat, Spart. Friggin’ too tasty! LOL