What is your go to cut of meat for

[applegrove]

special occasions? My grocery store sell frozen rack of lamb that is delicious. It is about $7 a serving but so worth it. Covered in rosemary and garlic. We only have it twice a year or so.

[OriginalGeek]

1. We eat out for special occasions

and mine is nearly always filet cooked to medium.


Although there is an Italian place near my grandpa's that does a pretty incredible osso bucco that I could easily be talked into. But they don't always have it. They start 'em the day before and only make so many and when they're gone they are gone. I expect it's pretty rare they have any left over.

[Paulie]

2. Standing rib roast / prime rib

Using a recipe where you don't let the oven temp go over 200F until unwrap and brown at 500F at the end. Wondrous.

Found it: http://www.cooks.com/recipe/hs0vq2eb/perfect-standing-rib-roast.html

[Chan790]

3. Pork Butt, $1.99/lb.

I don't eat it, I'm a vegetarian but I can do things to a pig's ass that would make you cry for delight and slap your momma.

[Hoyt]

5. That sounds petty good.

[Incitatus]

4. prime rib

[HarveyDarkey]

6. Crown Roast, on the smoker

[Locut0s]

7. Definitely Lamb...

I love it so much I should really learn how to cook it myself but I've never learned. I LOVE a well cooked Lamb dish!

[MiddleFingerMom]

8. I used to do great things with chicken -- chicken w/wine & mustard sauce\chicken cordon bleu, etc --

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... but my go-to cuts of meat were rib eye steaks (MUCH better than filet mignon).
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The meal was one that's been a classic for 50+ years -- grilled or broiled rib eyes
(with nothing more than black pepper and a little garlic powder), a big baked
potato w/sour cream and iceberg lettuce with 1000 Island dressing and chopped
hard-boiled egg.
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[Iggo]

9. Filet Mignon (n/t)

[Bertha Venation]

10. salmon filets

Grilled over charcoal. Nothing like it.

[noamnety]

11. Used to be whole beef tenderloin

The local butcher had them for 3.99/lb up until about two years ago, which around a dollar or two a serving. Still my all time favorite. During that time I invested in one of those meat thermometers with the wire that goes through the oven door so I could check the temp and an alarm beeps when it's perfect.

Now they jacked their prices up to 6.99/lb. Still cheapish, I guess - $3 for a hefty serving. But it irks me that it doubled in price.

So I've switched to pork butt - braised with a rub of chili, chocolate, and other spices.

[EdwardSmith74]

12. Baked acorn squash.