Now not much is better than tenderloin tournedos and for a big party like us five + two kids it can actually be done (relatively) inexpensively if you buy a whole tenderloin from somewhere like Costco. Whole tenderloins are sometimes called "PSMO's" (pronounced pismo) for "Peeled, Side Meat On" because the 'loin is peeled of fat and a piece of meat called the chain is left on the side of the main steaky part.
A PSMO
A cute girl with a PSMO
As it happens I have done this before for just our family because if you have a foodsaver, a big freezer, and a taste for red meat it can be economic to get a PSMO just for a family of three. Alton Brown of Good Eats did a pair of episodes on using up a PSMO which was very helpful. In the episode, Alton pretends to buy 10 or so PSMO's from Costco.
Eris has only seen this once but it must have been memorable for her. She rarely forgets anything. Whenever we see or talk about PSMO's she always says "How many PSMO's did the boy buy?", of course referring to Alton. "He bought 10, but we don't need 10, we just need 1", she usually answers herself. At dinner yesterday, she was also reminding herself to "try the pink parts", one of the things i say to her when meat is too tough. I had forgotten all about that but of course she didn't.
I guess it's all that red meat we feed her.
