Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.

[greybeard]

On that subject, I have to say that I've so far been very disappointed in the quality and availability of meats here. I bought some thin sliced rib eyes (for breakfast steaks) from walmart and they were not well marbled and were as tough as shoe leather. I bought (hormel) pork chops at the super1foods (owned by brookshires) and the top visible chops were "semi-decent" but everything underneath them was cut unevenly (thick on one side, thin on the other), very fatty, covered in meat "saw dust" and bone chips, and just generally looked like crap. I know I purchased the cheapest, "value pack" pork chops, but really... I haven't found a brookshires near me yet, but will try them next. Priority is to find a local butcher shop where I can buy quality (locally produced even?) meats, even if I have to pay more for them, and then to start raising my own!

3 letters:
HEB

Sounds like you got the "assorted" pork 'chop' package. Real pork chops on top and "pork steaks" (from the shoulder) on the bottom.

Beef from walmart is always a crap shoot, especially with the thin cut steaks unless you can get their 'butcher' to thin cut some from their CAB choice grades.
I have much better luck at HEB even when picking thru their stacks of value pack select grade ribeyes. Like most big chains, they buy boxed beef (and lots of it) then sort thru the choice ribeye and tbone and sell the less marbled ones at select prices.

Will be traveling thru your area tomorrow on our way to Paris, so if you see a black blur or hear a sonic boom, you'll know my wife was at the wheel.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Will be traveling thru your area tomorrow on our way to Paris, so if you see a black blur or hear a sonic boom, you'll know my wife was at the wheel.

Now that's funny! And, you sound just like my husband, lol!

 

[greybeard]

In my august and never too humble opinion, my comment is not unjustified..
Did your husband have to pay for a 90-in-a-55 ticket and see your joint auto insurance premiums go up 3 times in 2 years for 3 at fault accidents? Probably not.
(I have not had a ticket since 1982, have only had one accident since 1967, and it was over 30 years ago.)

Still, I love her madly but the perils of my stated occupation are never to be underestimated.

 

[Mini Horses]

Latestarter you can eat anything you want for breakfast !! I more often than not have leftover from night before. Of course, the bacon & brownies combo this AM will prove to be a less than good choice later in the morning but, that's life.

A meal is just to refuel. If it tastes good and provides needed nutrients, that's it. I am not really in the mood to cook early AM and often feel I have no time for it. That means coffee and heat up works. Late day or weekends my "culinary creativeness" blossoms and I become more of the "TV cook show" type. Mornings -- on your own -- get what you find!!


GLAD you are now a farm owner! That'll keep you busy. By the way, Mel is a huge, beauty of a dog.

 

[Baymule]

In your neighborhood........

https://www.texasgrassfedbeef.com/

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Did your husband have to pay for a 90-in-a-55 ticket and see your joint auto insurance premiums go up 3 times in 2 years for 3 at fault accidents? Probably not.

Not for me! I haven't had a speeding ticket in over 20 years and that was the only one of two that I ever got. The first one being in high school in a clunker that I was proud to drive - but had no working speedometer... However, my husband, in the 16 years I've known him has had at least 8 - 10 speeding tickets. The one on his motorcycle was much worse than the one your wife got. I'm NOT giving details on that one.

Accidents - Two motorcycle accidents. I was a passenger in one of them and I have the scar to prove it. ( Last time I got on a bike) Another one I had to drive to the hill county in the middle of the night to pick up him (and his three broken ribs) and haul the bike back home on a trailer. He backed into a really old truck in a parking lot, in my brand new SUV. Only broke the light out in the truck (we gave the guy all the cash we had on our person - around $300 that he was thrilled to get). He hit a pole in a parking garage the night before we were supposed to leave on vacation...ran into the back a Lexus coming home from work, hit another guy in a parking lot after an evening meeting of a community service group, AND, most recently, ran the front end loader of the tractor into my barn just this past weekend! Two years ago someone ran a light and totaled his car and very nearly totaled him too. So, I do feel your pain.

The difference in me and my DH is that on the (ahem) rare occasion that I (may or may not) exceed the posted speed limit, I pay attention.

 

[Mike CHS]

I have no idea about the quality of their meats but they could give lessons on how to set up a web site.

 

[Baymule]

In my neighborhood....... I have bought hamburger from them and it is good.

https://www.facebook.com/corazoncattle/

 

[Baymule]

I have no idea about the quality of their meats but they could give lessons on how to set up a web site.

It's better than it used to be. I have never bought from them.

 

[greybeard]

In your neighborhood........

https://www.texasgrassfedbeef.com/

$10.50/lb for what amounts to a cube steak (chicken fried steak) ???

Beef Minute Steaks


Four small tenderized boneless steaks per pack

Price Per Pound
$10.49

Package Weight
0.96


And $11/lb for something off the chuck and part of that weight is bone?

Beef Chuck Steak


One 3/4" thick bone-in steaks per pack



Price Per Pound
$10.99

Package Weight
0.75


Boneless Beef Single Ribeye Steak


One boneless 1" thick steak per pack

Price Per Pound
$20.49

WOW!