Filet Mignon or Stew Beef?

I like to shop online. A lot, and Safeway delivers, the delivery guy puts it away for me, and sometimes I'll get a coupon so I won't have to pay for the delivery. But I don't like to shop for fresh produce or meat online (euwww), that's when we actually go to the real deal, an honest-to-God store. Today, feeling a little iron deficient (don't ask), John did the honors and came home from shopping for tonight's dinner (I know ...) leaping into the house, pulled out a plastic-wrapped package of meat, and said, "Look! What is this?!"

You have to understand ... he's a snarky old beach boy, known for sweet blue eyes, a wicked cackle and trick questions ... but I grew up in France, and I know a filet mignon, plastic wrap or no. So, what? The Safeway label said it was 'Stew Beef' at $3.99 a pound, not filet mignon at $15.99 a pound...! Guess what we're having for dinner tonight ... yummm! Yeah! Go Safeway!

Wikipedia writes that Filet mignon (French for "dainty fillet") is a steak cut of beef taken from the tenderloin, blah, blah, blah ... If it's cut into portions before cooking, that portion is known as filet mignon, etc... and is considered to be the most tender cut of beef, and the most expensive.

It's also incredibly tender, and when cooked right, the flavor is non pareil, sine qua non, or for a simple carnivore like me - you just can't beat it!!!

Tiny Living

Yes ... I admit it ... I was surfin' the web looking for something to buy, and found this. No, no one sent it to me with a raving email to check it out, or that it's cool cool cool. This one is on my own.

Created in response to New York City’s cramped living conditions, tiny living is a store that aims to provide solutions for small spaces. The founders, a husband and wife team, spent many years living in cramped NYC apartments (one, a studio that measured a mere 200 sq. ft.!), and created tiny living to offer their smart findings of cleverly designed, affordable items that are small in scale, multi-purpose, flexible and/or organizational. Since opening in July 2005, tiny living received an overwhelming response, not only from NYC dwellers but from across the globe. It turns out their goods are suitable for anyone who wants to maximize their living space!

If I live in New York, this is probably where I'd do my online shopping. Beautiful little site = beautiful little home? One hopes, I'd think only gazillionaire ex-pals of Madoff or the fat cats of corporate America probably don't have to worry about a tiny little NYC home. But I would. So here's the scoop on this site. It's a shopping site. You browse it, and hopefully find cool things to make your small (they would even work in a not-so-small) home comfortable. Go see.

Love your small space.

p.s. - I'm looking for a magazine holder - the kind that folds up, looks like an X, stays on the floor. Let me know if you come across anything interesting!