My favourite beef is sold at a grocery store that carries Sterling Silver beef.
This week they had their beef tenderloin on from $33.00lb to $19.99lb.
I went to Thrifty's before work this morning and had the butcher cut me the centre from two whole tenderloins.
What I would call the Chateaubriand cut. One was just under 2 lbs and the other just over 2 lbs.
I cut one thick steak off of the smaller of the two. It is destined for a favourite recipe, one of Julia Child's recipes that I have been making for years,
but haven't made it recently. (Beef Burgundy)
And two steaks off of the larger piece, that I have presalted and intend to smoke tomorrow night for dinner.
The other two pieces are both over 1lb and I left them whole so I have options.
Depending on how my first attempted at smoking steaks goes, at least one of these will be smoked whole.
