Sometimes it feels good to splurge and treat oneself. The other day standing rib roasts went on a very rare sale at my local supermarket, which only happens around Easter and Christmas. We already had plans for an Easter ham, but I couldn't resist the opportunity.
We cooked it the day before Easter and it came out perfectly. We seared it in our biggest cast iron pan before roasting it, which browned the outside and made it crunchy when roasted. Then we seasoned the heck out of it and roasted it until it was 135 degrees on the meat thermometer. We also made a wonderful gravy using drippings from both the searing and roasting pans (de-glazing both). Man it was a real treat to eat that, with rich beef gravy smothered over the meat and the potatoes.
Now I still paid $40 for it to feed a family of 5 (with leftovers), but normally that piece of meat would cost double that. If we had ordered that meal in a restaurant, I'm sure we would have paid triple what we did by cooking it at home and probably would have received controlled portions instead of pigging out on second helpings.
Anyone else have a food splurge story? Maybe something you know is a budget splurge, but you treat yourself to anyway every once in a while?




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