Ribeye steaks

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Renee said:

Picked up some great looking Choice ribeyes yesterday at Winn Dixie
for $4.99 / lb. <snip>

I really envy you for the great price. Where I live choice ribeye
steaks sell for $16.99/lb. A once-in-a-while sale price is usually
$11.99/lb.

If you bought a prime (USDA grade) ribeye without the rib bone the
steak could be called a ribeye or possibly a Delmonico, altho that
name isn't used much anymore.

What I find funny is I sometimes find Delmonico steaks next to the ribeye
steaks and the price is about $4 less per pound for essentially the same
cut
of meat 🙂 It pays to know a little about these naming conventions.

Jill

Another good thing to know. Thanks Mac and Jill!

Dog3 said:

Oh yes, I remember the good old days when flank steak was considered a
crappy piece of meat and was dirt cheap. Cheap prices went by the wayside
along with the price on fish, such as swordfish, halibut etc. All used to
be reasonably priced until they became 'popular'.

Chicken wings used to be really cheap, but then Buffalo wings came along.
What used to be a very cheap meal is now relatively expensive. The worst I
have seen is the increased cost of braising meats like ox tails and beef
short ribs. When we were first married ( going back 30 years) I used to get
enough ox tails or short ribs to have a really good feed for 30 cents. Now I
cannot get enough to even go to the bother of cooking them for less than $12.

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Remember when flank steak was about 49 cents/lb? Now, if you can find
flank steak, it's $9.99/lb (at least around here). The Mexican
restaurants buy it up for fajitas and the Asian places buy it up for
stir-fry beef. Sometimes I can catch it on sale. I do a simple
marinade of teriyaki or soy with lemon juice, lots of garlic, ginger,
pepper, onions. Grilled rare, sliced thinly against the grain.
Delicious!

Jill

Oh yes, I remember the good old days when flank steak was considered a
crappy piece of meat and was dirt cheap. Cheap prices went by the
wayside along with the price on fish, such as swordfish, halibut etc.
All used to be reasonably priced until they became 'popular'.

Michael

Considering the prices, almost everything must be "popular" now!

No [censored]! I saw banannas for 99 cents a pound the other day.

Michael

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Oh yes, I remember the good old days when flank steak was considered a
crappy piece of meat and was dirt cheap. Cheap prices went by the
wayside along with the price on fish, such as swordfish, halibut etc.
All used to be reasonably priced until they became 'popular'.

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Considering the prices, almost everything must be "popular" now!

I haven't been able to food shop since sometime last fall. I have
recently ventured out and WOAH what happened to food prices??
Everything from the produce to the meats was sky high, it seemed
to me. No wonder the grocery bill seems to be hovering around
100 bucks a week lately.

nancy

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> Remember when flank steak was about 49 cents/lb? Now, if you can find
> flank steak, it's $9.99/lb (at least around here). The Mexican
> restaurants buy it up for fajitas and the Asian places buy it up for
> stir-fry beef. Sometimes I can catch it on sale. I do a simple
> marinade of teriyaki or soy with lemon juice, lots of garlic, ginger,
> pepper, onions. Grilled rare, sliced thinly against the grain.
> Delicious!
>
> Jill

Oh yes, I remember the good old days when flank steak was considered a
crappy piece of meat and was dirt cheap. Cheap prices went by the
wayside along with the price on fish, such as swordfish, halibut etc.
All used to be reasonably priced until they became 'popular'.

Michael

Considering the prices, almost everything must be "popular" now!

No [censored]! I saw banannas for 99 cents a pound the other day.

Are you kidding!? Bananas have been as cheap lately as $.13/pound, this
past week they were three pounds for a buck...

Orange juice has been very cheap, sometimes 3 64 oz. cartons of Dole
whatever for five bux. Tropicana at $1.99...

Bone - in chix breast is this week $.98/lb, a coupla weeks back boneless was
$1.69...pork has been cheap, too.

But fish is farirly expensive, I rarely eat it. Sometimes salmon will be on
sale for a decent price. An old standy, catfish, seems to have gone from
"poor food" status to "trendy", fillets run about six or so bux a pound...

[all prices per my local soopermart, Treasure Island in Chicago...]

--
Best
Greg

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>
> Remember when flank steak was about 49 cents/lb? Now, if you can find
> flank steak, it's $9.99/lb (at least around here). The Mexican
> restaurants buy it up for fajitas and the Asian places buy it up for
> stir-fry beef. Sometimes I can catch it on sale. I do a simple
> marinade of teriyaki or soy with lemon juice, lots of garlic, ginger,
> pepper, onions. Grilled rare, sliced thinly against the grain.
> Delicious!
>
> Jill

Oh yes, I remember the good old days when flank steak was considered a
crappy piece of meat and was dirt cheap. Cheap prices went by the
wayside along with the price on fish, such as swordfish, halibut etc.
All used to be reasonably priced until they became 'popular'.

Michael

Considering the prices, almost everything must be "popular" now!

No [censored]! I saw banannas for 99 cents a pound the other day.

Are you kidding!? Bananas have been as cheap lately as $.13/pound, this
past week they were three pounds for a buck...

Orange juice has been very cheap, sometimes 3 64 oz. cartons of Dole
whatever for five bux. Tropicana at $1.99...

Bone - in chix breast is this week $.98/lb, a coupla weeks back boneless was
$1.69...pork has been cheap, too.

But fish is farirly expensive, I rarely eat it. Sometimes salmon will be on
sale for a decent price. An old standy, catfish, seems to have gone from
"poor food" status to "trendy", fillets run about six or so bux a pound...

[all prices per my local soopermart, Treasure Island in Chicago...]

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Greg

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No [censored]! I saw banannas for 99 cents a pound the other day.

Are you kidding!? Bananas have been as cheap lately as $.13/pound, this
past week they were three pounds for a buck...

Orange juice has been very cheap, sometimes 3 64 oz. cartons of Dole
whatever for five bux. Tropicana at $1.99...

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Greg

We go through OJ around here as fast as most people go through soda pop.
Lately I've been picking up the gallon jugs of fresh squeezed Indian River
county (Florida) OJ from Sams. It's not pasteurized so I don't know how long
it's supposed to last once it's opened. We drink it up pretty fast, though.
It's *very* inexpensive next to the brand names and it definitely tastes
fresh squeezed - I know - as I've squeezed enough oranges myself in the
past. We like it much better than that Pure Premium stuff. Tastes like they
use Valencias, which is probably what most brands use and probably buy from
the same groves anyway.

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No [censored]! I saw banannas for 99 cents a pound the other day.

Are you kidding!? Bananas have been as cheap lately as $.13/pound, this
past week they were three pounds for a buck...

Orange juice has been very cheap, sometimes 3 64 oz. cartons of Dole
whatever for five bux. Tropicana at $1.99...

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Greg

We go through OJ around here as fast as most people go through soda pop.
Lately I've been picking up the gallon jugs of fresh squeezed Indian River
county (Florida) OJ from Sams. It's not pasteurized so I don't know how long
it's supposed to last once it's opened. We drink it up pretty fast, though.
It's *very* inexpensive next to the brand names and it definitely tastes
fresh squeezed - I know - as I've squeezed enough oranges myself in the
past. We like it much better than that Pure Premium stuff. Tastes like they
use Valencias, which is probably what most brands use and probably buy from
the same groves anyway.

Nancy Young said:

I haven't been able to food shop since sometime last fall. I have
recently ventured out and WOAH what happened to food prices??
Everything from the produce to the meats was sky high, it seemed
to me. No wonder the grocery bill seems to be hovering around
100 bucks a week lately.

Yeah, everthing seems to have crept up in price. Stuff that use to be maybe
$.99 is now $1.19 or whatever. Stuff on sale that was say three for five
bux is now two for five bux or even two for six bux...

Some stuff is still reasonable, but most stuff has gone up somewhat...

Oil is twice the price it was a year ago...that's a big culprit right there.
Also inclement weather in produce - growing areas like California and
Florida was/is a factor. Locally here in Illannoy we've had a terrible
drought, the corn and soybean crops are a total loss ('though the effect on
crop supply and prices will be negligible, it's really only IL has such a
bad drought, although Missoura and Arkansaw have been hit, too). Locally -
grown stuff at farmstands is pretty expensive, the gardens and truck farm
crops are fairly dried - up already, and this should be the peak time for
produce.

--
Best
Greg

Nancy Young said:

I haven't been able to food shop since sometime last fall. I have
recently ventured out and WOAH what happened to food prices??
Everything from the produce to the meats was sky high, it seemed
to me. No wonder the grocery bill seems to be hovering around
100 bucks a week lately.

Yeah, everthing seems to have crept up in price. Stuff that use to be maybe
$.99 is now $1.19 or whatever. Stuff on sale that was say three for five
bux is now two for five bux or even two for six bux...

Some stuff is still reasonable, but most stuff has gone up somewhat...

Oil is twice the price it was a year ago...that's a big culprit right there.
Also inclement weather in produce - growing areas like California and
Florida was/is a factor. Locally here in Illannoy we've had a terrible
drought, the corn and soybean crops are a total loss ('though the effect on
crop supply and prices will be negligible, it's really only IL has such a
bad drought, although Missoura and Arkansaw have been hit, too). Locally -
grown stuff at farmstands is pretty expensive, the gardens and truck farm
crops are fairly dried - up already, and this should be the peak time for
produce.

--
Best
Greg

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> "jmcquown" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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>>
>> Remember when flank steak was about 49 cents/lb? Now, if you can
>> find flank steak, it's $9.99/lb (at least around here). The
>> Mexican restaurants buy it up for fajitas and the Asian places
>> buy it up for stir-fry beef. Sometimes I can catch it on sale.
>> I do a simple marinade of teriyaki or soy with lemon juice, lots
>> of garlic, ginger, pepper, onions. Grilled rare, sliced thinly
>> against the grain. Delicious!
>>
>> Jill
>
> Oh yes, I remember the good old days when flank steak was
> considered a crappy piece of meat and was dirt cheap. Cheap prices
> went by the wayside along with the price on fish, such as
> swordfish, halibut etc. All used to be reasonably priced until
> they became 'popular'.
>
> Michael
>

Considering the prices, almost everything must be "popular" now!

No [censored]! I saw banannas for 99 cents a pound the other day.

Are you kidding!? Bananas have been as cheap lately as $.13/pound,
this past week they were three pounds for a buck...

Orange juice has been very cheap, sometimes 3 64 oz. cartons of Dole
whatever for five bux. Tropicana at $1.99...

Bone - in chix breast is this week $.98/lb, a coupla weeks back
boneless was $1.69...pork has been cheap, too.

But fish is farirly expensive, I rarely eat it. Sometimes salmon will
be on sale for a decent price. An old standy, catfish, seems to have
gone from "poor food" status to "trendy", fillets run about six or so
bux a pound...

[all prices per my local soopermart, Treasure Island in Chicago...]

I got some banannas today at the Sappington Farmer's Market for 29 cents a
pound. They are running between 69 and 79 cents at Dierberg's and
Schnucks. I still buy fish, I don't care how high in price it gets. I
love the stuff 😉 Oh, Greg, you sent me an email and my spam filter deleted
it before I could read it. Can you resend it? For some reason the filter
decided to pick on you and Jill but leave the mortgage people spam willing
to give us a $750,000 second mortgage... <snort>

Michael

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> "jmcquown" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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>>
>> Remember when flank steak was about 49 cents/lb? Now, if you can
>> find flank steak, it's $9.99/lb (at least around here). The
>> Mexican restaurants buy it up for fajitas and the Asian places
>> buy it up for stir-fry beef. Sometimes I can catch it on sale.
>> I do a simple marinade of teriyaki or soy with lemon juice, lots
>> of garlic, ginger, pepper, onions. Grilled rare, sliced thinly
>> against the grain. Delicious!
>>
>> Jill
>
> Oh yes, I remember the good old days when flank steak was
> considered a crappy piece of meat and was dirt cheap. Cheap prices
> went by the wayside along with the price on fish, such as
> swordfish, halibut etc. All used to be reasonably priced until
> they became 'popular'.
>
> Michael
>

Considering the prices, almost everything must be "popular" now!

No [censored]! I saw banannas for 99 cents a pound the other day.

Are you kidding!? Bananas have been as cheap lately as $.13/pound,
this past week they were three pounds for a buck...

Orange juice has been very cheap, sometimes 3 64 oz. cartons of Dole
whatever for five bux. Tropicana at $1.99...

Bone - in chix breast is this week $.98/lb, a coupla weeks back
boneless was $1.69...pork has been cheap, too.

But fish is farirly expensive, I rarely eat it. Sometimes salmon will
be on sale for a decent price. An old standy, catfish, seems to have
gone from "poor food" status to "trendy", fillets run about six or so
bux a pound...

[all prices per my local soopermart, Treasure Island in Chicago...]

I got some banannas today at the Sappington Farmer's Market for 29 cents a
pound. They are running between 69 and 79 cents at Dierberg's and
Schnucks. I still buy fish, I don't care how high in price it gets. I
love the stuff 😉 Oh, Greg, you sent me an email and my spam filter deleted
it before I could read it. Can you resend it? For some reason the filter
decided to pick on you and Jill but leave the mortgage people spam willing
to give us a $750,000 second mortgage... <snort>

Michael

Dog3 said:

I got some banannas today at the Sappington Farmer's Market for 29 cents a
pound. They are running between 69 and 79 cents at Dierberg's and
Schnucks. I still buy fish, I don't care how high in price it gets. I
love the stuff 😉 Oh, Greg, you sent me an email and my spam filter

deleted

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it before I could read it. Can you resend it? For some reason the filter
decided to pick on you and Jill but leave the mortgage people spam willing
to give us a $750,000 second mortgage... <snort>

I'll try, but it was nothing all that important :-)

--
Best
Greg

Dog3 said:

I got some banannas today at the Sappington Farmer's Market for 29 cents a
pound. They are running between 69 and 79 cents at Dierberg's and
Schnucks. I still buy fish, I don't care how high in price it gets. I
love the stuff 😉 Oh, Greg, you sent me an email and my spam filter

deleted

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it before I could read it. Can you resend it? For some reason the filter
decided to pick on you and Jill but leave the mortgage people spam willing
to give us a $750,000 second mortgage... <snort>

I'll try, but it was nothing all that important :-)

--
Best
Greg

Dog3 said:

For some reason the filter
decided to pick on you and Jill but leave the mortgage people spam willing
to give us a $750,000 second mortgage... <snort>

Obviously you need to go buy some real estate.
<g>
--
-denny-

"I don't like it when a whole state starts
acting like a marital aid."
"John R. Campbell" in a Usenet post.

Dog3 said:

For some reason the filter
decided to pick on you and Jill but leave the mortgage people spam willing
to give us a $750,000 second mortgage... <snort>

Obviously you need to go buy some real estate.
<g>
--
-denny-

"I don't like it when a whole state starts
acting like a marital aid."
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>> "jmcquown" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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>>>
>>> Remember when flank steak was about 49 cents/lb? Now, if you can
>>> find flank steak, it's $9.99/lb (at least around here). The
>>> Mexican restaurants buy it up for fajitas and the Asian places
>>> buy it up for stir-fry beef. Sometimes I can catch it on sale.
>>> I do a simple marinade of teriyaki or soy with lemon juice, lots
>>> of garlic, ginger, pepper, onions. Grilled rare, sliced thinly
>>> against the grain. Delicious!
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> Oh yes, I remember the good old days when flank steak was
>> considered a crappy piece of meat and was dirt cheap. Cheap prices
>> went by the wayside along with the price on fish, such as
>> swordfish, halibut etc. All used to be reasonably priced until
>> they became 'popular'.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>
> Considering the prices, almost everything must be "popular" now!
>

No [censored]! I saw banannas for 99 cents a pound the other day.

Are you kidding!? Bananas have been as cheap lately as $.13/pound,
this past week they were three pounds for a buck...

Orange juice has been very cheap, sometimes 3 64 oz. cartons of Dole
whatever for five bux. Tropicana at $1.99...

Bone - in chix breast is this week $.98/lb, a coupla weeks back
boneless was $1.69...pork has been cheap, too.

But fish is farirly expensive, I rarely eat it. Sometimes salmon will
be on sale for a decent price. An old standy, catfish, seems to have
gone from "poor food" status to "trendy", fillets run about six or so
bux a pound...

[all prices per my local soopermart, Treasure Island in Chicago...]

I got some banannas today at the Sappington Farmer's Market for 29 cents a
pound. They are running between 69 and 79 cents at Dierberg's and
Schnucks. I still buy fish, I don't care how high in price it gets. I
love the stuff 😉 Oh, Greg, you sent me an email and my spam filter deleted
it before I could read it. Can you resend it? For some reason the filter
decided to pick on you and Jill but leave the mortgage people spam willing
to give us a $750,000 second mortgage... <snort>

Interestingly bananas at Shaw's in Providence, RI jumped from .33 a
pound to .49 over the course of two weeks.

Transportation costs go up, so goes the price of food since EVERYTHING
is trucked in these days.

But more curious is that per pound, fish is less expensive than chicken
or beef. I would think chicken and beef would be more plentiful and
therefore less expensive but nothing doing.

For example, salmon runs about $6 a pound while chicken is now over $7 a
pound.

Gregory Morrow said:

Dog3 said:

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On Sun 07 Aug 2005 05:25:10a, Dog3 wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> "jmcquown" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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>>
>> Remember when flank steak was about 49 cents/lb? Now, if you can
>> find flank steak, it's $9.99/lb (at least around here).
>>
>> Jill
>
> Oh yes, I remember the good old days when flank steak was
> considered a crappy piece of meat and was dirt cheap.
> Michael
>

Considering the prices, almost everything must be "popular" now!

But fish is farirly expensive, I rarely eat it. Sometimes salmon
will be on sale for a decent price. An old standy, catfish, seems to
have gone from "poor food" status to "trendy", fillets run about six
or so bux a pound...

[all prices per my local soopermart, Treasure Island in Chicago...]

Heh, don't feel bad Greg. I live where they *farm* fresh catfish and it's
as expensive as all get out! I think the last time I saw decent catfish
fillets it was $8 or $9 a pound. I can buy flounder for less than that and
flounder doesn't come from this area! It's just nuts.

Jill

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> On Sun 07 Aug 2005 05:25:10a, Dog3 wrote in rec.food.cooking:
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>> "jmcquown" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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>>
>>>
>>> Remember when flank steak was about 49 cents/lb? Now, if you can
>>> find flank steak, it's $9.99/lb (at least around here). The
>>> Mexican restaurants buy it up for fajitas and the Asian places
>>> buy it up for stir-fry beef. Sometimes I can catch it on sale.
>>> I do a simple marinade of teriyaki or soy with lemon juice, lots
>>> of garlic, ginger, pepper, onions. Grilled rare, sliced thinly
>>> against the grain. Delicious!
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> Oh yes, I remember the good old days when flank steak was
>> considered a crappy piece of meat and was dirt cheap. Cheap prices
>> went by the wayside along with the price on fish, such as
>> swordfish, halibut etc. All used to be reasonably priced until
>> they became 'popular'.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>
> Considering the prices, almost everything must be "popular" now!
>

No [censored]! I saw banannas for 99 cents a pound the other day.

Are you kidding!? Bananas have been as cheap lately as $.13/pound,
this past week they were three pounds for a buck...

Orange juice has been very cheap, sometimes 3 64 oz. cartons of Dole
whatever for five bux. Tropicana at $1.99...

Bone - in chix breast is this week $.98/lb, a coupla weeks back
boneless was $1.69...pork has been cheap, too.

But fish is farirly expensive, I rarely eat it. Sometimes salmon
will be on sale for a decent price. An old standy, catfish, seems
to have gone from "poor food" status to "trendy", fillets run about
six or so bux a pound...

[all prices per my local soopermart, Treasure Island in Chicago...]

I got some banannas today at the Sappington Farmer's Market for 29
cents a pound. They are running between 69 and 79 cents at
Dierberg's and Schnucks. I still buy fish, I don't care how high in
price it gets. I love the stuff 😉 Oh, Greg, you sent me an email
and my spam filter deleted it before I could read it. Can you resend
it? For some reason the filter decided to pick on you and Jill but
leave the mortgage people spam willing to give us a $750,000 second
mortgage... <snort>

Michael

Darn! Is that why you didn't pick up your birthday e-card?!

Jill

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All that prime, and
rib, and standing stuff has always confused me. Never tried cooking
one before, but prime rib roast is on my list of things to serve to
company some day.

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If you've a mind to and a good sharp knife, if you cut the roast
just-so you
get nice meaty beef "BBQ" ribs for the grill. Then of course, you
can cut your own ribeyes, too 🙂

Jill

Just-so? Are they tricky to cut? I cut my own fillet mignons from beef
tenderloin, and center cut pork chops from center cut pork loin
roasts, when either go on sale. They're so quick and easy to do, and
with something like fillets, I can often save over $5 / lb. Sounds
like a good idea cutting up the rib roasts if they're on sale and not
too hard to cut up.

They aren't hard to cut. I had a butcher explain it to me once but I'll be
darned if I remember the *exact* instructions. You might ask the butcher
where you shop. I know you cut along the fat line (there usually is one)
which separates the ribeye portion from the meaty bone. You want to slice
downward using the ribs as a guide to this line of fat; if there isn't a
line of fat, just stop where you want to 🙂 Then slice horizontally across
the bones (fat line) to release the slices of beef into steaks (much as
you'd do if you were slicing the cooked roast, but in that case you cut down
as far to the bone as possible). Then cut between the ribs to have beef
ribs for grilling or whatever treatment for which you'd like to use them.

Jill