steak

Image from wikipedia – thanks.

Posts here are a bit like buses, aren’t they? – none for weeks, then three in a day. That’s because downstairs I now use an iPad rather than a laptop, and a) I can’t remember the password, and b) it’s too slow to type a lot. I do have a bluetooth keyboard for it, so I should really fish that out, then I could post more. We’ll see.

Anyhoo … there are more and more blogs around covering frugal living and cooking. This isn’t one of them; I don’t like waste, particularly food waste, but we’re not living a frugal life. Although we probably should be 🙂 As a demonstration, I give you our steak dinner last weekend.

In a fruitless attempt to clear freezer space (how I hate being a one freezer household – it simply isn’t enough), I found a few, just a few, frozen chips. Now we only eat chips with steak, so what was I to do? I took myself off to Normans, of course, and asked for a piece of sirloin. The butcher looked at me askance – possibly. Did I really want sirloin, he asked? I asked what his alternative was, and he disappeared out to the back (I tell you, it’s like Hilary Briss’ shop in League of Gentlemen in there; I fully expect to be offered Special Stuff soon).

He returned with a lump of beef, which he informed me was rib eye. It looked good – nice and dark brown. “Just show it a pan”, he said, which is how we like our steak. So he cut me off a slice, weighed it and charged me £5.20, which seems like a bargain to me for a bit of steak.

We had it with the oven chips, and some frozen peas from a bag we had to buy specially.

Reactive we are, frugal we ain’t 🙂