Friday, November 23, 2012

Is it a Steak or is it a Roast?

When my cousin Khanh from California and I get together, we like to cook.  The day after Thanksgiving, we went to HEB to cook dinner and they had a special on Ribeyes.  Now typically, I ask them to cut me 1 1/2" thick steaks, but Khanh got the bright idea and told the guy to cut us 2-2" thick cuts.  When he handed us our order we realized we may have over ordered (we may have been hungry when we went to the store)
 
Side Story: They had put the 2 pieces of steak on their scale and rang it up and it came out to be $130 for 2 steaks!  I was on the phone with one of the Doctors I work with discussing his office space and my jaws dropped.  The guy had forgotten to put in the sales price which dropped it down to about $50.  I mean i knew it was not going to be cheap, but $130 for 2 steaks! 
 
Anyways, as you can see the picture below, these steaks are the size of a roast and took up a whole pan each.  We had seared it off with a Thyme and Garlic infused butter and finished it off in the oven.  Again, the Red Wine came out to make a Red Wine Sauce.  Side item was Roasted Asparagus and Garlic Bread.
 


Each Piece was a little over 2 1/2 Pounds. 

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