Tuesday 3-30-10

This month has flown by. I've been feeling pretty good this morning so I got up and got my s&^%& together and bought all the meat for the coming feasts at the Essen House. I love it when I can put deals together. I always check at Sam's to see if they have any great deals early in the morning. I should not give this information out, but earl in the morning they discount any meat that must be sold in the next two days. Now, I call that aged beef, and love to get it at a discount. Today for instance I got USDA Choice roasts for $2.38 a lb as apposed to $3.99 a lb for the same thing. We freeze it any way and when we serve it, it's all gone in about 20 minutes. We will also cook it and then serve it in pre packaged servings for beef Manhattans. They love that meat served open face with mash potatoes and gravy on two peaces of bread. Now that's comfort food all the way. Put a little dressing on the side and you got heaven on a plate. I'm drooling just thinking about it. You see the Amish can eat that all day long because they work it off before lunch and after lunch. With me, well, not so much. I work it off by not having it but once a month. I've actually lost about 16 lbs. here in the last weeks so I get to have one of those soooon.

I also picked up port tenderloin, normal price $1.99 when on sale, today I got a box for $1.63. We are going to have roast beef, port tenderloin, and ham on the carving station for Easter. We've already had a ton of reservations, so Easter should be a big day. Thanks Toby and Larry for inviting us to your house for Easter. I do like to do the carving, but it's actually nicer to be served by Toby and Larry.

My next stop was to get the corned beef. I can't get much of a discount on that, but as I have said before it is the oldest and best corned beef in the country. I love it, but I just can't have tooooo much of a good thing. It's OK to have a sandwich. but when it comes to a full meal, I need to be careful. It's all the other stuff that gets to my stomach.

It's starting to be good bike riding weather again. Be careful, you know they don't watch for us. We lost 4 riders in Carefree because a dumb ass garbage truck ran into the back of 8 while stopped at a stop sign. He was reading his log. I hope they give him plenty of time in another life to read his log in hell. That just makes me sick to think of the lives that are effected.

For all those that will be traveling for the holiday, be careful and drive safely and watch out for the bikes, they are everywhere. Love to all. Tom