How the used meat turned out ............

[Tangerine LaBamba]

The cheap chuck eye steaks I got yesterday had only marinated for twenty-four hours, but the curiosity was overpowering.

On this dismal, chilly, drizzly day, I brought one steak to room temperature, fixed a great big salad, and then quickly - ninety seconds on each side (not a thick cut) - did it in a hot pan with a bit of olive oil.

Here's how it was:

I want to eat the two others still marinating RIGHT NOW, and I'm stuffed. I don't care if I get sick, because it'll be worth it.

My word! I have been converted from the expensive cuts of beef to this absolutely delicious chuck eye steak. It was so flavorful, just chewy enough without being tough, and the marinade wasn't so strong that the meat's flavor didn't come through. It was one of the best beef meals I've ever had - including those in Argentina and Japan. (No comparison on the Kobe, which I found sort of boring and insipid.)

A salad of mixed greens, grape tomatoes, thinly sliced onion, carrot, English cucumber, tossed with a plain balsamic vinaigrette was the perfect accompaniment to this meat. I usually serve the salad after dinner, but this one cried out to be on the same dish with the steak, and the warm juices running into the lettuce just made it better.

I lucked out yesterday, and, again, thank you to you lovely C&B folks who were kind enough to help me out on how to prepare these gorgeous cuts of meat.........

:toast:

[Tesha]

1. Yeaaaa!!

:9 yum
:9 yum
:9 yum

and hooo-raaaay for used meats!!! I'm so glad it worked out well...

way to go!

[elleng]

2. 24 hours marinating SHOULD have been fine.

GLAD it was!

[eleny]

3. Mmmmmm.....mmmmm....good!

[libnnc]

4. we always snap up chuck eyes when we can find them

:thumbsup:

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Chuck eye ......

.... my favorite steak in the world. I don't care what one pays. And you described it perfectly ..... extraordinarily flavorful and just chewy enough. A pleasant mouth full.

And talk about insipid ..... some BigBux place in Las Vegas is now offering (American version of) Kobe hamburgers. Hello?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

6. There are two more steaks in that Ziploc bag,

and I'm already thinking of lunch tomorrow.

I got so lucky at Harris Teeter, I can't believe it. Three steaks for under ten bucks!

Watch. I'll never find them used again.

The Kobe beef was about the biggest disappointment imaginable. I was one of the honored guests at this dinner, so I had to make all kinds of noise and eat it all, but, man, what is the deal?

Argentinian beef, well, that was a lot better, plus I used to get a great big steak for under five bucks in this little dive I patronized in Buenos Aires. They cooked it over a converted oil drum in the back yard. It was perfection, but the steak today was better. Much better.

I'm so tickled with this new discovery ...................

[Stinky The Clown]

7. Our Safeway often has 'em at $3.99/lb

Not as cheap as you got 'em. But certainly in the 'afforable' class.