I love New York

I hear the hushed whispers, barely audible. "My god Robert, look at all the ribeye you eat." I feel the punitive stares I get from my vegan friends knowing that I have doomed myself to several thousand more incarnations as a rock or a stump for the wholesale bovine slaughter that I am personally responsible for.

And before one more person tells me to "mix in a salad" I want you to know that I am course correcting. No more ribeye steaks for a while.

I'm changing to New Yorks.

I went to Costco Business today and picked up this top loin beauty. 

If you have never been to a Costco Business, well their meat departments are pretty insane and sometimes you can find really good deals.

I was debating between the New York subprimal I eventually bought and a halal, grass fed ribeye from New Zealand.

It was a really good deal but I happen to prefer the taste of grain fed beef.

The man who worked there said that the taste of the halal cut was quite strong.

I ended up going with this one.

A little over thirteen lbs. at $9.79 a lb.

Not a tremendous amount of fat on the fatcap.

I am splitting this with Deb and Jim. 

I took it home, cut it and sealed it, ended up with fourteen nice steaks and trim.

Darn, used my very last seal a meal bag, have to remember to restock!

I cooked up the trim, couldn't very well sell my friends beef I had never tasted now, could I?

It was absolutely incredible, flavor was fantastic and it is so nice to have something different than a ribeye.

Excellent marbling for this cut of beef.

Tonight, this steak was better, much more flavor than the Ribeyes that I have been devouring of late.

Go buy a steak in a restaurant and see what it costs.

Think about it, fourteen steaks for a hundred and twenty eight dollars.

Not too bad.