Eric’s Blog

I’ve just about had it. This company (who both my friend Elaine and I thought would be good) American Grass Fed Beef (http://www.americangrassfedbeef.com/) has been sending us beef pretty much every quarter. She and I went in halves on getting a quarter of a side, and I have to say- all the meat has been embarrassingly low quality. I know that grass fed beef can be overcooked because it’s so lean, but that is not what is happening here. Most of the time it’s hamburger that we get - which means the scraps after butchering (usually from a variety of pieces) is given to us. Anyway, I have hamburger coming out of my ears. The first bad experience of many was with some T-Bones, I cooked them to ‘medium’, and they were SO tough, they were completely inedible, and we ended up giving them to our dogs.

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It was a sad realization last night. After being on call from 7a to 7p, Z and I thought it’d be nice to head over to Los Altos grill (a.k.a Bandera’s). Instead, we changed our mind to go to Nola’s instead. There, you can pick your nose, and no one would notice, but at Bandera’s, you have to be more…collected, so Nola’s seemed a better choice. I LOVE their fish tacos, and wedge salad. SO GOOD. When I got their fish tacos last time, they went from seared fish to breaded. This isn’t a big deal as it’s common to have breaded fish tacos. The drawback is that I don’t dig the breading, so the fish tacos are out.

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