Headed out to La Tombola on Unley Rd, I’ve had nothing but amazing food and service experiences here, always worth a visit. Usually I go for the petit fillet which has a sensational strong red wine jus with it, but today on the specials was a 400g ribeye so figured I’d give it a go. Meat was excellent and prepped perfectly, sadly for me I didn’t ask about the sauce, turns out it was a gorgonzola. I don’t mind a *tiny* taste of goats/blue cheesey kind of hint coming through, but as a main base for a sauce it just doesn’t do it for me. Oh well, can’t win ‘em...

On weekdays The Stag do half price steaks for members, and the waitresses are very attentive and entertaining because they’ve got nothing better to do. On the menu they have a chateaubriand which is designed to be shared amongst two people, however it’s only 500g and I already knew I wouldn’t be satisfied with a meagre 250g of meat, so two of us ordered this “dish for two”, and the other guy ordered a 500g rump. The rump on half price day is like $14 – total bargain – the chateaubriand comes with mushrooms, onion rings, chips, mash, green veggies, and a choice...

Day 16 – wandering around the Adelaide Central Markets yesterday morning thinking about dinner, stumbled by Feast Fine Foods and the wagyu scotch fillet caught my eye, I’ve always been a regular ribeye/scotch/t-bone guy, never bought wagyu to cook for myself, and perhaps the $195/kg price tag for this 8+ marble score piece of cow is why… ...

Was in the need for a decent protein hit, so mosey’d on down to The Union Hotel where they have on the menu an 800g t-bone for $38 bucks. Cooked great, decent quality meat, mushroom sauce was a bit meh, but yeah, definitely worth a go. Current weight: 85.4kg Alcohol: 1 beer, 1 bottle of red wine, 1 bottle of champagne Other food: 6 eggs (fried in loads of ghee) Total steak eaten: 4.9kg Total other food: 8 eggs, 620g processed meat, 500g chicken, 850g seafood, 650g carby stuff Total alcohol: 25 beers, 8 bottles champagne, 6 bottles white wine, 11.5 bottles red wine, 0.5 bottles rosé, 12 gins, 5...

Today was the first home-cooked steak of the month… wow. Sadly our options of meat were limited, so we ended up going to Foodland (a multinational general supermarket), but in the end the meat we got was… ok Also bought some “offcut” salmon to go with it for a bit of the surf n turf feel. Was in a friend’s unfamiliar kitchen so worked with what I could find – no olive oil to pre-rub the steaks with stuff, instead used lemon juice which many have been an error – if only a slight one. Ended up covering them with lemon juice and pepper and this new chimmichurri...