Ok, so it’s spring break for my kids and my wife (bless her soul) has taken
the kids to a water park in Wisconsin Dells. I am home alone with my dog and
three cats. Feeling sorry for myself I stop by the local butcher shop to pick up
a steak for dinner. As I scan the array of meat displayed before me a towering
temple of animal flesh catches my eye. “Can that be two steaks stacked on
top of each other” I wonder. I ask the butcher and he says “No that is
one steak”. I told him that a steak that big was disgusting… and then I
had him wrap it up. Oh the guilt, Oh the self flagellation, Oh the the need to
buy some mushrooms to go with it <g>. What followed was one glorious
seduction of 3 lbs of sensuous meat and man. Needless to say, I am not as young
as I use to be…there were leftovers for lunch tomorrow.

Another of our simple meals at the fly in camp in northern Ontario.As mentioned before, we try and plan every other dinner to include something other than fish. This isn’t because of a lack of confidence in catching them, its more a desire to break up the entree’s so that we don’t get sick of eating fish all the time. This particular evening our dinner would include beef and it was one of the best meals of the whole trip.
The menu was as follows:

• Marinated Whole Beef Tenderloin with mushroom or a blue cheese and
  crab horseradish sauce.
• Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes
• Fresh Baked Rolls 
• Blueberry Cobbler