May 27, 2006
Memorial Day 2006
For me, this is the beginning of summer, the beginning of barbeque season. It's not that I don't BBQ all year long, but it is moreso in the summer with the daylight extended late and not wanting to heat the house up with cooking. And again, a good reason for saddlebags -- a large tub of potato salad and six USDA Choice T-Bones fit.
Memorial Day is also splurge day -- go for the King of Steaks -- Porterhouse/T-bone. Stop by Costco -- no porterhouse, but the T-bones are $8 pound in three packs with several of the packs having pairs of steaks that are real close to being porterhouses.
Wendy asked I also check out Omaha Steaks, in the shopping center at Crenshaw and PCH. So I did. Very much disappointed. The steaks are USDA inspected (as if you are legally allowed to sell anything else) but no mention of the grade the meat received. For $20 a pound -- on sale -- I would expect USDA Prime. Looking at the steaks I would judge merely choice -- looked no better than the Costco steaks. Not to mention that they are individually wrapped and hard frozen. Would need to defrost for at least a day in the 'fridge. Which would interfer with....
I like to marinate my steaks in teriyaki sauce. These will have spent 44 hours in the marinade by the time they get tossed on the grill.
Posted by Paladin at May 27, 2006 12:09 PM