One for the carnivores...

Despite the fact I love cooking, there's not much fun cooking for yourself, not to mention the fact it's not particularly economical. However, I've decided that I need to start cooking again.

I was in Vons (a supermarket) this morning and noticed they had some meat reduced for quick sale. The shelf included some Tri-Tip steaks. Normal price was about $9 per lb, but with a saving for using a loyalty card - then 50% off for quick sale. So 2 and a bit lbs of steaks for $8 total. Bargain.

Tri-Tip isn't particularly well known back in Europe, but, cooked well properly, that is slowly until medium rare then left to rest for a few minutes before serving, it's fabulously tender and full of flavour.

I had about half a pound for dinner with some oven roasted potato, onion and pepper mix and just a little dollop of really good smokey barbecue sauce.

I can only imagine how good it would have been if cooked on a barbecue with some hickory or mesquite.

There's just a little meat left over for sandwiches tomorrow - that'll certainly make it a bit more economical!