Steak

     Last night I had steak for supper. Steak can be defined very easily through a few words: price, quantity,  and quality.
     One of the foods that can get the most expensive is steak. However, when the price increases, generally, the quality does too. If you want to be good at picking out steaks than you have to learn to ignore the price because if you are someone who has a tight budget or are very careful with how you spend your money than buying good steak isn't for you. Of course, if you ignore your budget too often and continuously buy steak then you will end up going through your money very fast, if you're buying good steak. Who wants that much steak anyway? I only eat steak on an occasion because there are so many other foods to try or retry, why stay on the same food over and over each night? I would think it would get boring.
     You may think that the words quantity and steak don't generally go together. On the contrary, quantity is just how much of something there is, no matter how much or how little. In a store, you can buy as much steak as you want, your budget will allow, how much you can carry or how much is in stock. Then when you get home, you can cook as much or as little of it as you want. I generally cook my steak the size of a hockey puck. Maybe I could eat more, but there is always a side or two with it that I have to add so that it isn't just steak. Also, I could end up eating someone else's leftover and I have to have room for that. However, in a restaurant you are limited to the sizes on the menus, though the chefs probably have more experience with cooking and preparing the steak then you do.
     The most important aspect of a steak is its quality, Personally, the steak I had last night was a very good juicy steak that was cooked well. If you are going to be picking out steak, or any other meat, you should know what the fat of that type of meat looks like; that way you can try and choose a package, in this case steak, that has the least amount of fat in it. However, just because fat isn't the best thing to be eating (health and texture wise) doesn't mean having a bit of it on your steak is the end of the world. You can cut the fat off before or after cooking the steak, but if you cut it off before you cook the steak then you could use it later.
     Steak is definitely on the to-try list, just not on the OK-to-indulge-in list. Steak doesn't cost as much if you only buy it once or kill the quality, but I like the quality. I have steak once or twice a month and it doesn't drain my budget, but I guess it varies from budget to budget.