Paring Cheese Tonight

The supermarket had breakfast sausage links for $2.89 a pound. I found a BOGO on cherry tomatoes. Two nice-sized potatoes left from the 5 lb. bag I bought a while back. We're on for dinner!

I make cherry tomatoes fines herbes. I still have my rosemary growing in the living room window, and I dried oregano from the garden. Add to that, dried chives, thyme and chervil with a couple of finely chopped scallions and some olive oil and we're good to go. The tomatoes brighten any table and are even good for you. What's more amazing they have FLAVOR!

The sausage I fried in a non-stick skillet.

For the potatoes, I chop a small onion and a clove of garlic and put that to soften in some bacon fat. Then I chop up the potatoes and add them to the hot grease. At the end, I beat up two eggs and pour on top the potatoes and cook until done.

This is a tasty meal and we have enough sausage and tomatoes for breakfast tomorrow, along with the English muffin I forgot to toast tonight.

This week the New York Times had an article about how people have gone back to such stalwart old favorites as cube steaks. Remember cube steaks? They had a recipe and I was salivating. I used to cook cube steaks when my kids were little. Hey, the kids are gone, but the idea was tempting.

Today, Shaw's in Mansfield had cube steaks--a generous package and it was a manager's special with $3.00 off. Couldn't resist. Looks like it will make two dinners. They had mushrooms for a dollar, so I grabbed a package of those, too, to saute and serve on the cube steak.

Cheap eats can be both quick and tasty. The cherry tomatoes would also be great with the cube steaks. And we have a nice acorn squash which wasn't cheap.

It's hard to save on produce, so one has to bite the bullet sometimes. I'll let you know how the cube steaks tasted.

We're been getting adequate beef (and therefore zinc) all winter, and so far, no one has been sick although we've been exposed plenty and we take public transporation. (see prior post)

Friday night the Green Line of Boston's MBTA was packed so tightly that if someone had sneezed, twenty-four people would have caught cold.

Wash your hands and eat some beef. It doesn't have to be a lot and it can be nice and lean.

The Cheeseparer