Gonna order a room service NY Strip and put gaobest's suggestion into practice requesting it RARE. Let's see what happens!

Mr. CE is going out and I wanted to stay home, so Trader Joe's chicken tikka samosa made in the air fryer!

Warm ciabatta dipped in really good balsamic & rosemary olive oil
Caesar salad (no croutons)
Grilled onions
Grilled rib eye (all the steakhouse talk got to me)
Asparagus with ghee

Cannonball Cabernet Sauvignon.
I always forget that asparagus messes with the taste of wine.

I've been on FT for awhile and never got into this thread. Y'all eat well! Happy holidays!

I'm pretty amazed at the culinary knowledge of others in this thread, and the wide breadth of cooking acumen I've seen here. Just as I'm a novice traveler when compared to other FT'ers, the same is true for me on this thread--I'm a culinary novice compared to many of these folks on here.

The only think I know is steak, my one trick pony. Hey, I'm American, and I'm ok with my limitations!

LOL...sorry, that's the one course that I wake up daily and want to eat most. There's some simplistic elegance to knowing exactly what ones to eat the most every morning, at least for me.

Well I cooked up this one for dinner ...it would have felt weird to grill up a big thick rib eye for breakfast. It was grass fed and tasted a bit gamey to me. For steak and eggs for breakfast I think of something thin like hangar or skirt steak but I would defer to your experience in that area.

Leftover Zaytoon Mediterranean from friday
lamb shawarma wrap
mezze platter
hummus & pita

how was the steak?

Well, when it comes to food, there are some generalities we follow but, at the same time, there’s also room for individual preferences. For instance, I’m from the school where Brandy should always be enjoyed neat and slightly warmed above room temperature, but some of my friends with culinary taste far more sophisticated than mine actually enjoy it either mixed or on the rocks. Over the years, I’ve grown to appreciate the effort we invest into learning the “rules” is expressly to know they should be broken, per each of our unique tastes & preferences.

I’d agree that generally rib-eyes for breakfast would be peculiar. Some prefer leaner meats for breaking the fast, probably because for most of us our digestive systems aren’t really acclimated to handling that amount of fat shortly upon waking. Not that I’m proud of this, but I love fat so much that I’m an exception! Not to gross anyone out, but I’ve often just enjoyed, say, eating a tablespoon of mayo or a slice of butter plain—not often, but it’s a practice I’ve engaged in my entire life. My Mother was so disturbed by my peculiar culinary tastes that she made a considerable effort into changing them. It never worked, and my Grandmother, after a time, finally just told her to leave me alone. And, to this day, I have this peculiar love of fat that’s very unusual; and, I’m probably one of the few who does indeed enjoy a thick fatty ribeye and lobster bathed in butter for breakfast absent any gastronomical consequences.

In my experience, grass fed beef in the US market tend to be a little gamier, lean and often having a different color when cooked, more bluish than the bright red we Americans have been accustomed to. It’s definitely healthier and boasts a considerably better ratio of good fats—omega 3s—than the proverbial cornfed USDA Prime steakhouses prefer. In my view, the latter tastes better, but the former is better health-wise and probably for the environment (not that I really know much about this topic).

Generally, I tend to avoid the grass-fed beef here in the States for the reasons you’ve mentioned; however, I was quite pleasantly surprised to find the grass- fed beef (rib-eyes) were fabulous during my time in Australia. And, to add insult to injury, it was considerably more affordable than ours! It was such a good deal, I just kept ordering every night, and it was available on the menu almost everywhere you dined, at least in Sydney.

It was good! Ordering rare definitely resulted, at least this time, in better results. It was probably medium rare when the chef had finished but ended up near almost medium on its way up to my room before that silver dome thing hotels like to place over the main course had been lifted.

And for those who haven't seen -- the amazing range of "personal food rules" is detailed here:

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/dini...ght=food+rules

Neither of us was all that hungry last night. I prepared a plate with a sliced apple and orange segments. Then a bowl of black bean hummus with flatbread crisps to dip. Then a few assorted nuts from a Christmas gift.

Well I am all for rule breaking and it isn't that I couldn't eat a big rib eye or lobster in the morning...I would just feel odd going to the trouble of cooking it plus I really like wine with a steak & I don't drink that in the morning. Eating a tbs of mayo out of the jar? Nothing unusual about that to me. I rarely eat just butter but I have been known to put so much butter on a piece of bread that it is almost like just the butter. Of course, these are all done very rarely because I don't want to die next week. I try to eat healthy at least 80% of the time.
I won't be buying that grass fed steak again for the reasons you stated. Besides the gaminess, it wasn't very well marbled. Thank god I grilled up a bunch of onions with it because they helped with the flavor. I would try the Aussie version. I love Australian lamb.

I’ll take a good ribeye, morning, noon or night!

Hey, if you can find good food somewhere, regardless of time, Go for it. There was one time I was coming off a shift for a project at 6am. I had been up literally for 20 hours to help implement it. On the way to the subway station to head home, I walked past a 24h Burger King... and at the time, I realized I hadn't had any food for more than 12 hours. So walked in and ordered two whoppers (minus the pickles and mayo). When I got home, added some marbled cheddar and shoved one into the microwave and just devoured it. No one I know would eat a whopper (or any hamburger) at 7am, but hey, it was pretty good and better than anything I could make in a semi-comatose state.

Or the time I arrived at HKG at 6am with my next flight being several hours away... I forget the name of the restaurant (Coral Cafe or something like that? It's at one end of the airport on an elevated food court)... anyway, they had 干炒牛河 (cantonese rice noodles w/beef... not CKT although similar) that they just started plating... it's not traditionally a breakfast meal... but it felt like a good meal to me (after being on a plane for 15 hours).

My point being, if you see it, and you're in the mood for it, regardless of the time, why not.

I could easily eat a burger at any time of day. And most foods are 24 hour foods actually.

It's tamale time! Always a 2 day project. Yesterday I made the pork, and Ms. braslvr made the sauce. Today they were combined, the masa was made, and she is folding and I'm steaming. Should make 80-100. I love tamales, and they freeze well.