“Sweetheart Steak” from Lobel’s butcher shop, I knew I had to have it – and had to plan an entire “heart-themed” Valentine’s Day dinner around it.
The Sweetheart is a 20-ounce boneless strip steak (also available as a 20-ounce boneless rib eye, but the strip lends itself more to this unique use) that has been butterflied into a carnivore’s delight for two to share. It is heart shaped, it is red, it is decadent and it is delicious – so it is hard to imagine a more perfectly suited centerpiece for a romantic Valentine’s Day dinner at home. Plus, almost anyone can cook a steak, no special skills needed.
Vegans can skip the next two paragraphs – I’ve still got some info they can use.
Lobel’s is probably the most renowned butcher shop in the United States, a Madison Avenue institution and the top choice of well-heeled New Yorkers for more than half century. It has been praised over the decades by everyone from GQ to the Wall Street Journal, Cigar Aficionado to Good Housekeeping. The family-owned shop specializes in nothing less than the finest meats available, period, including natural lamb, natural veal, Berkshire pork, free range chickens from Amish and Mennonite farms in Pennsylvania, house cured hams and bacon, and most of all, beef. Amazingly, the least impressive beef they sell is better than almost any you can buy elsewhere, what they call “high prime,” chosen from the top 2% of the beef graded “prime” by the USDA – which in turn is just 2% of all beef in the country. Above this “entry level,” they offer natural beef raised on a 100% vegetarian and hormone free diet, as well as domestic imitations of top Italian and Japanese cattle breeds.
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