After Huskee 's unfortunate beef loss, I have a more uplifting experience to report.
Lisa joined me on a grocery run Sunday afternoon. I was poking around the meat department even after picking up the one item we needed for the week. I was especially looking at hams as the family has requested double smoked ham again for Christmas. The usual good sale on hams hasn't started yet, so I was about to move on, but then I heard a siren call from over in the beef counter.
Another option I had given the family was a standing rib roast or even prime rib (planning, ironically, if that was their choice to order from Creekstone) but that was not to be. But, obviously, many families go that direction and it seems that there must be significant demand for boneless rib roasts (I know, those are missing what gives much of the flavor!). But some of us are bound to benefit from all that butchery. And it seems my local Publix must be marking up the boneless roasts so much that the resulting ribs are almost an afterthought.
Just look at this beautiful package!
Can you imagine? Nice marbling for choice grade and a relatively generous cut for back ribs having been removed from a roast. But only $4.99 a pound! Only $7 for what should be enough to feed both of us tonight.
I had originally thought Lisa was going to have one evening of not coming home for dinner this week, so I grabbed this package and said that would be my dinner that night. But she chimed in to say the flute choir rehearsals are over until after the holidays, but she would eat a rib.
As I write this, the ribs are dry brining with Meathead's Red Meat Rub.
I will try to update this thread with an in-progress shot or two and some after action thoughts. But I'm already thinking that I may find myself passing back through Publix tomorrow to see if they still have this price on ribs. I have plenty of freezer room in the freezer in the new outdoor kitchen...
Lisa joined me on a grocery run Sunday afternoon. I was poking around the meat department even after picking up the one item we needed for the week. I was especially looking at hams as the family has requested double smoked ham again for Christmas. The usual good sale on hams hasn't started yet, so I was about to move on, but then I heard a siren call from over in the beef counter.
Another option I had given the family was a standing rib roast or even prime rib (planning, ironically, if that was their choice to order from Creekstone) but that was not to be. But, obviously, many families go that direction and it seems that there must be significant demand for boneless rib roasts (I know, those are missing what gives much of the flavor!). But some of us are bound to benefit from all that butchery. And it seems my local Publix must be marking up the boneless roasts so much that the resulting ribs are almost an afterthought.
Just look at this beautiful package!
Can you imagine? Nice marbling for choice grade and a relatively generous cut for back ribs having been removed from a roast. But only $4.99 a pound! Only $7 for what should be enough to feed both of us tonight.
I had originally thought Lisa was going to have one evening of not coming home for dinner this week, so I grabbed this package and said that would be my dinner that night. But she chimed in to say the flute choir rehearsals are over until after the holidays, but she would eat a rib.
As I write this, the ribs are dry brining with Meathead's Red Meat Rub.
I will try to update this thread with an in-progress shot or two and some after action thoughts. But I'm already thinking that I may find myself passing back through Publix tomorrow to see if they still have this price on ribs. I have plenty of freezer room in the freezer in the new outdoor kitchen...
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