Obama Bargains
July 16th, 2009Cheap Meat!
I paid a visit to the grocery store to get some wings for dinner. By the way, this is one of the great low-carb feasts of all time. Add salt, pepper, and garlic. Bake at 425 for one hour on a broiling pan. Serve with a mixture of Frank’s Red Hot sauce and butter. Simple.
Anyway, while I was there, I noticed they had beautiful prime rib for $12 a pound. Not choice. Prime! I trembled with desire. This is only 20% more expensive than choice.
It’s funny, but meat seems cheap right now. A couple of years back, I paid $12.50 for prime rib, to age and cut into steaks. Then the price went up. Now it’s down. And the store was packed with cheap chicken. Costco’s meat prices are down, too. Thanks, Fannie Mae and Barney Frank! I wish everyone could benefit from the low prices.
I had to call Mike. A meat-bargain sighting is no fun without someone to share it with.
I thought he was coming down this weekend, but he’s really busy. Might make it a week later.
I would appreciate it if people would include him and his family in their prayers. I’m hoping all four of them end up attending church regularly, and that they start to see the blessings flow.
I can tell I’m going to have to have prime rib soon. Or age a roast for steaks. I only have two aged rib eyes in the freezer, and they’re choice. That is unacceptable.
Still no milling machine.
July 16th, 2009 at 5:01 PM
The stores here still get $7 bucks a lb for what should be ground into hamburger.
Whats holding up the mill?
July 16th, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Danged if I know.
July 17th, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Enjoy good food prices while they last – the ObaMessiah will find a way to screw that up soon too. A Reverse Midas Touch there, that one has.
July 17th, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Food was cheap during the Depression.
July 17th, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Hi.
I live about 65 miles north of San Francisco, and the closest north of the Golden Gate I can find prime grade beef (sometimes)
is in Fort Bragg; about a 2.5 hour drive north up the coast. Is there any particular store where you get your prime grade beef?
Thanks!
Dale
July 17th, 2009 at 6:53 PM
Maybe it’s because Florida is a big beef state. I don’t know. But the local grocery store (Publix) always has prime.
July 18th, 2009 at 7:05 AM
Wow, was that confusing. When did they move Ft. Bragg from N.C.?
Oh, there’s one in CA. I guess.
July 19th, 2009 at 7:48 AM
The Kid just rolled her eyes when I burst in the front door the other day proudly proclaiming my $22 Piggly Wiggly purchase: 15 pounds of chicken, 5 pounds of sausage and 1 pound of bacon.
Teenagers.
July 19th, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Do you brine the chicken? Seems like a good idea with the rather high roasting temperature.
July 19th, 2009 at 6:01 PM
I would never brine something as small as a wing. I brined ribs once, and they were too salty to eat.
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This isn’t my recipe. It’s the one on the Frank’s bottle.