We had planned to go apple picking today, but it was 96 degrees, so we skipped that. Wm is having his friend Vivian over for a play date tomorrow morning, so he's looking forward to seeing an old friend from preschool. Then Mimi and Guy are coming over for a cookout. And, despite playing light saber with her curtain rods right in front of the windows of her brand new house, Suzanne has invited Wm over for dinner on Monday. So Wm has a jam packed weekend of fun!
I sent Steve to the butcher for a good cut of beef for dinner tonight (My hero, Ina, had a delicious looking butter dijon glaze for beef that I wanted to try). -- I should preface this by saying that our credit card bill had arrived the day before and Steve and I had a serious discussion on cutting our food costs when we saw how much we spend on food...I have no idea how much anything costs, I just go to Whole Foods and buy whatever I want to cook, not even checking prices until I hit the cash register. Not good -- So Steve comes home from the butcher with this:
A $38 2lb cut of beef tenderloin. I was not happy. But then I cooked it. And it was AMAZING. Like butter. Better than almost any filet I have had a restaurant. Steve said he was in a "meat coma." But the true tenderloin lover was Wm. He ate everything we gave him and screamed, "MORE MEAT!" He even ignored his bread! He then had thirds...and forths. Finally, when he screamed, "MORE MEAT!" for fifths, I was like, "eat your carrots, man." Wm says he wants "fancy meat" every day. While I am still not super pleased that it cost $38, it was pretty damn good! And we got 3 dinners out of it - and enough to make at least 3-4 sandwiches (with horseradish sauce!) for lunch tomorrow. So, really, that's only $6/meal. Not too shabby. And Wm ate more food at dinner than he ate all last week. Meat Winning!
Wm only moved onto his bread after he ate 4 servings of beef! It's what's for dinner.
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