Seriously Cheap Steaks

I have a local grocery store that I invade about once a day.  Sometimes I hit other stores when I see a good sale or if I find a great coupon, this Bottom Dollar, this haven of frugality, this heroin of bargain hunters - sigh (told you I sigh a lot).  It used to be a Food Lion but it has since been split into two chains here in Northern Virginia.  Bloom for the above average earning crowd, and Bottom Dollar for those of us willing to pick lint off of found pennies and use them.  In other places I hear it's still Food Lion - I'll have to figure that one out some day.

I wandered in there today after I got off of work and went straight to the meat cooler.  They have meat clearance sales every day and every day it's something different - which for me is excellent since I like variety.  I also like a challenge.  Try making something fun and cool out of beef cheeks for picky kids.  I'll give you a few pointers if you ask nice.  Tonight I "Found the Beef", hit the bovine jackpot.  They had a package of six, I repeat SIX, Now York strip steaks for $6.  I blinked a few times then grabbed them to looked them over.  If I had a pocket microscope I might have been tempted. I mean come on, this was a buck a steak.  What trick were they trying to pull on me?

The color looked good with no greying, no funky smells emanating from the package, no weird looking liquid.  I did see some pretty good marbling of fat, good sign.  I took a chance and bought the lot of them.  If they didn't come out good I could always cut them up and mutate them into something else, watch me.

I took out the frying pan, lit up the stove to medium heat (we literally have to light it up as it's a gas stove with a broken igniter) and when the pan was ready threw the steaks on.  The steaks had a nice sear and cooked to medium rare......and then the taste test.......slice.......spear........grunt of happiness.  Yah, these were great steaks.  I wasn't about to look this gift horse, or cow, or whatever in the mouth.  I cooked up the rest of them, made buttered peas and brown rice and fried fresh mushrooms in the pan after deglazing with chicken broth.  Add garlic, onion and soy sauce, serve over rice.

Everyone is stuffed to the gills.  The great thing is I bought enough of the steaks I can enjoy another night of meat nirvana soon.  I have to figure out who the Saint of Carnivores is and say thank you.